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Required & Suggested Readings

Required Readings

For Purchase:  Ordered through Barnes and Noble Bookstore, Lincoln Center

  • Jonathan Kirsch, A History of the End of the World (includes the “Book of Revelation”)
  • Mark Juergensmeyer, Terror in the Mind of God
  • Brenda Brasher and Lee Quinby, eds., Gender and Apocalyptic Desire
  • Charles Strozier, Apocalypse (second edition)

On Reserve:

  • Rick Moody, “The Albertine Notes”
  • John Wallis, Apocalyptic Trajectories, selected chapters
  • Alan Weisman, “Earth Without People,” Discover Magazine and website (see link on schedule)

Films: To be shown as indicated on syllabus in the End of the World Film Series. If you are unable to attend the scheduled screening, you are responsible for viewing the film prior to the next class.

  • “Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb”
  • “The End of August at the Hotel Ozone”
  • “Jonestown: The Life and Death of People’s Temple”
  • “A Thief in the Night”
  • “Trading the Future”
  • “Children of Men”

 

Selected Recommendations for Final Essay:

Interdisciplinary, Classics, Comparative Literature, and Philosophy

  • Boyer, Paul. When Time Shall Be No More, Harvard UP, 1992
  • Cohn, Norman. Cosmos, Chaos, and the World to Come; The Pursuit of the Millennium, 1957
  • Fuller, Robert.. Naming the Anti-Christ, Oxford UP 1995
  • Gould, Stephen Jay. Questioning the Millennium, Harmony books, 1997
  • Guyatt, Nicholas. Have a Nice Doomsday. Harper Perrennial, 2007
  • Keller, Catherine. Apocalypse Now and Then, Beacon Press, 1996; God and Power, Fortress Press, 2005
  • Lifton, Robert Jay. Super Power Syndrome, Thunder’s Mouth Press/Nation Books, 2003
  • Long, Thomas. AIDS and American Apocalypticism, SUNY Press, 2005
  • Manley, Roger, et al. The End is Near, Dilettante Press, 1999 (artwork and essays)
  • Pippin, Tina. Apocalyptic Bodies, Routledge, NYC, 1999
  • Quinby, Lee. Anti-Apocalypse, Minnesota UP, 1994; Millennial Seduction, Cornell UP 1999
  • Weber, Eugen. Apocalypses, Harvard UP, 1999
  • Weissman, Alan. The World Without Us. St. Martin’s Press, 2007
  • Wojcik, Daniel. The End of the World as We Know It, New York UP

English

  • Frykholm, Amy Johnson. Rapture Culture, Oxford UP 2004 (on Left Behind Series)
  • LaHaye, Tim, and Jerry Jenkins. Novels from the Left Behind Series
  • MacDonald, Andrew. The Turner Diaries
  • McCarthy, Cormac. The Road, Alfred A. Knopf, 2006
  • O’Leary, Stephen. Arguing the Apocalypse, Oxford UP 1994
  • Quinby, Lee. Selected chapters from Anti-Apocalypse and Millennial Seduction
  • Vaughan, Brian K. Y: The Last Man, Vertigo Series

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