Amy's new Reading List

My focus feild is dystopias.

dystopia as topoi
Jewish/christian apoc;
tragedy's critique humanism;
dystopia as replacing tragedy

Buber--I and Thou
Ari
Plato
Formalism: Brooks/Ross Chambers/S. Chapman/Todorov's book on the fantastic/Propp
Violence and sacred--sacrificial crisis
Levi-Strauss's rejection of structuralist reading of literature
Eric Rankin?
Derrida's on Apocalyptic Time
Bernard Knox--Oedipus at Thebes
Cedric Whitman: Sophoclean Humanism
Causality: two kinds of prophetic: Buber: the apocalyptic, the prophetic and the historical --from On the Bible/ ed H Bloom



Primary texts
Kafka
Beckett
Ianesco
More's Utopia; Bacon
1984--novel, movie 1 movie 2
Brave New World
Fahrenheit 451
Rousseau
Dispossessed--LeGuin
Dostoyevski
Camus--The possessed
Notes from the Underground
We-Zamyatin
countermovement by Russians--1840s: What is to be done? "The Double"
Dostoyevski: counterdystopian--begins with a dystopia.
Jacob's Ladder--three realities: Vietnam; in bed wakes up in another life; Never left the dystopia
Robert Ludlam--Bourne Identity/ George Lucas--THX

Relationship to ancient rhet?
Relationship to tragedy?
Is a genre?