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Fall Semester 2007 Reading List

  • Texts and Traditions 1

     

    (1) The Epic of Gilgamesh, trans. N. K. Sandars, Penguin Classics.

    ISBN: 0-140-44100-X

     

    (2) Homer, The Iliad, trans. Robert Fagles, Penguin Classics.

    ISBN: 0-14-027536-3

     

    (3) Greek Lyrics, trans. Richmond Lattimore, University of Chicago Press.

    ISBN: 0-226-46944-1

     

    (4) Sophocles, The Antigone, trans. Robert Fagels, Penguin Classics.

    ISBN:  0-14-044425-4

     

    (5) The Complete Plays of Aristophanes, ed. Moses Hadas, Bantam Classic.

    ISBN: 0-553-21343-1

     

    (6) Euripides, V: Electra and Other Plays, ed. Greene and Lattimore, U Chicago Press.

    ISBN: 0-226-30784-0

     

    (7) Plato, Five Dialogues, "The Apology," and "Crito," trans. G.M.A. Grube Hackett Pub. ISBN: 0-87220-633-5

     

    (8) Lucretius, The Way Things Are, trans. Rolfe Humphries, Indiana University Press.

    ISBN: 0-14-044610-9

     

    (9) Vergil, Aeneid, trans. Robert Fitzgerald, Vintage.

    ISBN: 0-679-72952-6

     

    (10) Juvenal, The Sixteen Satires, Penguin Classics.

    ISBN: 0-14-044704-0

     

    (11) Epictetus, The Handbook (The Encheiridion), trans. Nicholas P. White, Hackett Pub.

    ISBN: 0-915145-69-3

     

    (12) The Gospel of Thomas, trans. Marvin Meyer, Harper San Francisco, 1992

    ISBN: 006065581X

     

    (13) Jackson Spielvogel, Western Civilization, 6th edition, Wadsworth Publishing Co.

    ISBN: 0534646026

     

    (14) The Bible, any translation, but not a paraphrase.

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    Texts and Traditions 3

    (1) Spielvogel, Jackson. Western Civilization. (Comprehensive Volume, 4th ed.) Wadsworth. (ISBN 0534568351).

    (2) Voltaire, Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics) (Paperback) John Butt Penguin Classics; Reissue edition (June 30, 1950) ISBN-10: 0140440046 ISBN-13: 978-0140440041

    (3)  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (1754) Trans and ed. Donald A. Cress.  1992. Hackett 087220503

    (4)  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust : Part 1 (Oxford World's Classic) Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; New edition (August 18, 1998)  ISBN-10: 0192835955 ISBN-13: 978-0192835956

    (5) William Blake. Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. Dover reprint editions, Dover              Press. Mineola, NY. 1986.   0486-25264-7

    (6) Mary Shelley. Frankenstein. (Enriched Classics) Pocket (2004) ISBN-10: 0743487583  ISBN-13: 978-0743487580

    (7)  John Stuart Mill. On Liberty. (1859) Penguin Classics. 1975 Mass Market  0140432078

     

    (8)  Karl Marx. The Communist Manifesto, Introduction by Martin Malia. (1848). Signet Classic Mass
    Market 0451527100

    (9) Charles Darwin. Darwin. ed. Philip Appelbaum. (1859). 3d edition. Norton Critical Edition
    0393958493

    (10)  Friedrich Nietzsche. On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo (1887). Vintage/Random 1989.  
    0679724621

    (11)  Leo Tolstoy. Master and Man and Other Stories. trans. and with an introduction by Paul         Foote, Viking Penguin Books, 1977, 0-14-044331-2

     

    (12)  Dostoevsky Notes from the Underground, The Double and other Stories 1593080379 or 97815930803722003

    (13) Don Giovanni (Opera Journeys libretto Series) ed. by Burton D. Fisher. pb.  Opera Journey (2002) 978-1930841840 or 1930841841

     

    Democratic Vistas

       (1)  de Tocqueville, Alexis. Democracy in America, abridged edition, ed. by Stephen Grant. Hackett.  (ISBN 0872204944)

      (2) Heffner, Richard.  A Documentary History of the United States. (ISBN 0451628829)

       (3) Miller, Perry (ed). The American Puritans: Their Prose and Poetry. Columbia University Press. (ISBN 023105419X)

       (4) Peterson, Merrill D. The Portable Jefferson.  Viking Press.  (ISBN 0140150803)

        (5) Emerson, Ralph Waldo.  "Self-Reliance" (1841), "The American Scholar" (1837), and "Thoreau" (1862).  (hand-outs)

       (6)  Dickinson, Emily.  Selected Poems. Dover Thrift Edition. (ISBN 0486264661)

        (7)  James, Henry.  The American. (1877) any edition.

        (8)  Ward, Geoffrey. The Civil War. (ISBN 0679755438)

        (9)  Parker, John P.  His Promised Land. Norton.  (ISBN 0393317188)

        (10) Brown, Dee.  Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee:  An Indian History of the American West.  Owl Books.  (Henry Holt & Co.) (ISBN 0805017305)

         (11) Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. (ISBN 0743273567)

    additional poems, speeches and essays as handouts.

    Critical Reading, Critical Writing

    Literature and the Law

    1. Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle Sophocles (ISBN 015602764X) 2002
    2. Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy Posner (ISBN 0674010816) 2003
    3. The Merchant of Venice Shakespeare (ISBN 0743477561) 2004
    4. Darkness at Noon Koestler (ISBN 1416540261) 2006
    5. Othello Shakespeare (ISBN 0743477553) 2004
    6. The Case of the Speliencean Explorers Suber (ISBN 0415185467) 1998
    7. The Heritage Guide to the Constitution Meese (ISBN 159698001) 2005

    Interdisciplinary Approaches to Gender

    1. Gender Mosaics: Social Perspectives Dana Vannoy   (ISBN  1891487469)
    2. The Gendered Society Reader Michael Kimmel (ISBN  0195149769)
    3. Reconstructing Gender: A Multicultural Anthology Estelle Disch (ISBN 0072997427)
    4. The Random House Handbook Frederick Crews (ISBN) 007013636X


    The Modern Synthesis

    1. Stephen J. Gould (1990).  Wonderful Life:  The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History.  W W Norton.  (ISBN 039330700X)
    2. Richard Dawkins (2006).  The Selfish Gene (new edition).  Oxford University Press. (ISBN 978-0199291151)
    3. Ernst Mayr (2005). One Long Argument: Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary Thought. Harvard University Press.  (ISBN  0674639065)
    4. Frederick Crews. The Random House Handbook. sixth edition. MacGraw-Hill. (ISBN 007013636-X)

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