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January 11-14
Course Introduction
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January 18-21
Faust As Antichrist: The Man Who Sold His Soul to the Devil
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January 25-28
The Faust Drama
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust (Part One) [Levity/Alchemy site]
Alternative Text: Tragedy of Faust [Bibliobytes site]
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February 1-4
Enlightenment Optimism
Emanuel Swedenborg's Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell
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First Project Due
February 8-11
Romantic Rebellion: Satan as Savior
William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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February 15-18
Romanticism at the End of the World
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's The Last Man, HTML version (contents page by chapter) or ASCII version (contents page by volume) (U Maryland) or SGML version (contents page by chapter) (U Virginia)
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February 22-24
Last Judgment Reversed: Christ on Trial
Fyodor Dostoevsky's "The Grand Inquisitor" from Brothers Karamazov (Sydney Christian Net site) (Alternative text version at Chris King's Genesis of Eden site) (Another alternative text version at Mt. Holyoke College site)
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Second Project Due
February 29-March 3
Midterm Exam
March 6-10
Spring Break
March 14-17
The Otherworldly Journey as Science
Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth
(Alternative text version [in one big file] maintained at Gilead site)
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March 21-24
Late Romantic Nihilism: Antichrist as Hero
Friedrich Nietzche's The Antichrist
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March 28-31
Ghost Dance: Native American Millennialism
Wovoka's Message: The Promise of Ghost Dance
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Third Project Due
April 4-7
New Century/Great War Apocalypticism
George Sylvester Viereck's Songs of Armageddon and Other Poems (Read "The Book of Armageddon" and "Dr. Faust's Descent From Heaven")
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April 11-14
Anglo-American Modernism and Post-Modernism
D. H. Lawrence's "Seven Seals"
William Butler Yeats's "Second Coming"
William Burroughs's "Apocalypse"
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April 18-21
Apocalypse on Screen
Ingmar Bergman's film The Seventh Seal (video on reserve in the college library or from most video rental shops; copies of the screenplay [English translation] on reserve in the college library)
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April 25-28
Course Summary & Review
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Fourth Project Due
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 | Legend of the Grand Inquisitor by André Bailey, Holly LaPerrier, Patrick McCormick, Stephanie Shabbott, Marie Tarnowski, and Doug Hoke |
| Bergman: The Man Behind The Seventh Seal by Greer Boyd, Kelly Sande, Vanessa Hurdle, and Sharon Dorsey |
May 1-5 Exams in College Writing Center
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