Francis Ford Coppola, Apocalypse Now
Video and Powerpoint of lecture by Jon Beasley-Murray for the “Remake/Remodel” theme; also video and Prezi by Derek Gladwin for the “Repetition Compulsion” theme
Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
Video and Powerpoint of lecture by Jon Beasley-Murray for the “Remake/Remodel” theme
Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
Video and Powerpoint of lecture by Jon Beasley-Murray for the “Remake/Remodel” theme
Antigone
It is not always entirely clear who (if anyone) or what is the tragic hero(ine) in Sophocles’s Antigone, or what exactly is the nature of their tragedy. One might have thought that the tragic figure was the eponymous Antigone herself, … Continue reading →Continue reading →
Aimé Césaire, The Tragedy of King Christophe, and Derek Walcott, Henri Christophe
Video and Powerpoint of lecture by Jon Beasley-Murray for the “Remake/Remodel” theme
Alejo Carpentier, The Kingdom of this World
Video and Powerpoint of lecture by Jon Beasley-Murray for the “Remake/Remodel” theme
An Introduction to Jon Beasley-Murray
Jon Beasley-Murray on pissing off his parents, ruins, and not being afraid
Podcast: Frankenstein and “The Daisy Dolls”
Discussion with Jon Beasley-Murray and Kevin McNeilly
Podcast: Civilization and Its Discontents and Borges
Discussion with Jon Beasley-Murray and Jill Fellows
Podcast: The Waste Land and Foe
Discussion with Jon Beasley-Murray and Kevin McNeilly