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Donald Burke

York University, Humanities, Adjunct

Humber College, Liberal Studies, Adjunct

OCAD University, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences and School of Interdis. Studies, Adjunct

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Books by Donald Burke

Adorno and the Need in Thinking: New Critical Essays

Papers by Donald Burke

The Gothic and the Romantic in Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Scenari, vol. 14, 1/2021, 2021

This article traces the influence of Gothic themes in the music, lyrics, and first novel of Nick ... more This article traces the influence of Gothic themes in the music, lyrics, and first novel of Nick Cave, And the Ass Saw the Angel. Though Nick Cave’s artistic output has gone through various stages, his early work with Boys Next Door, The Birthday Party, and the nine albums released by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds between 1984 and 1996 especially demonstrate the influence of Gothic themes, and especially of the Southern Gothic mode of writing, as in the short stories of Flannery O’Connor.

“Adorno’s Aesthetic Rationality: On the Dialectic of Natural and Artistic Beauty,” in Critical Ecologies: The Frankfurt School and Contemporary Environmental Crises, ed. Andrew Biro (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011)

“Adorno’s Aesthetics of Reconciliation: Negative Presentation of Utopia or Post- metaphysical Pipedream?” in Adorno and the Need in Thinking, Donald Burke, et al., eds. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007)

Teaching Documents by Donald Burke

The Roots of Western Culture: The Modern Period (F/W 2014-2015) Syllabus

Myth and Imagination in Ancient Greece and Rome (F/W 2014-2015) Syllabus

Adorno and the Need in Thinking: New Critical Essays

The Gothic and the Romantic in Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Scenari, vol. 14, 1/2021, 2021

This article traces the influence of Gothic themes in the music, lyrics, and first novel of Nick ... more This article traces the influence of Gothic themes in the music, lyrics, and first novel of Nick Cave, And the Ass Saw the Angel. Though Nick Cave’s artistic output has gone through various stages, his early work with Boys Next Door, The Birthday Party, and the nine albums released by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds between 1984 and 1996 especially demonstrate the influence of Gothic themes, and especially of the Southern Gothic mode of writing, as in the short stories of Flannery O’Connor.

“Adorno’s Aesthetic Rationality: On the Dialectic of Natural and Artistic Beauty,” in Critical Ecologies: The Frankfurt School and Contemporary Environmental Crises, ed. Andrew Biro (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011)

“Adorno’s Aesthetics of Reconciliation: Negative Presentation of Utopia or Post- metaphysical Pipedream?” in Adorno and the Need in Thinking, Donald Burke, et al., eds. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007)

The Roots of Western Culture: The Modern Period (F/W 2014-2015) Syllabus

Myth and Imagination in Ancient Greece and Rome (F/W 2014-2015) Syllabus