Release Date: November 11, 1996 This content is archived.
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- "Heaven, Hell & Judgment" will have a web page and among the instructional tools used will be what co-instructor Diane Christian, professor of English at the University at Buffalo, calls "a CD ROM on Hell" published recently by Italica Press.
The UB Libraries will post an electronic reserve list for the course, a "totally experimental" endeavor, according to Karen Senglaup, Lockwood Library coordinator for access services. When the list is completed, it will be available via the Lockwood electronic reserve page (buffalo.edu/libraries/services/reserve). Senglaup added that there also is the possibility of linking students to databases that will provide full texts of reserved books and articles.
Senglaup said the libraries also will work with Christian and co-instructor Dorothy Glass, professor of art history, to extend access to course material in several ways. Through the course web page and the library reserve pages, they will offer access to other electronic resources on the world wide web related to this subject matter.
"These will include web sites throughout the world and links to other libraries -- the Vatican Library, for instance, so that students can look as specific works of art, literature and illuminated material," Senglaup said.
In a related event, students, faculty and alumni of the UB Art Department's Program in Illustration will exhibit work offering their articulation of the afterlife in a show, "Art from Hell," to be held from Jan. 23 through Feb. 11 in the Art Department Gallery on the lower level of the Center for the Arts.
Although the course will not formally cover material beyond that of William Blake, it will end with a wild leap into the 20th century to demonstrate how the course material informs contemporary treatments of the post-death experience.
On April 28, Glass and Christian, who also is a film scholar, will sponsor a public screening of the filmatically intense 1946 British afterlife fantasy flic, "Stairway to Heaven," a tour de force piece of movie-making that describes a vast, hygienically clean Other World in which the British dead, gamely and with good humor, maintain their dignity at any cost.
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