Brandon Konoval: Arts One Curriculum, 1999 – 2011

Novels Poetry and Epic The Tale of Genji, IX (Murasaki) The Odyssey (Homer) Frankenstein (Shelley) The Epic of Gilgamesh [XII] Crime and Punishment; Poetry of Reclusion (T’ao Yüan-Ming) The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky) Symphoniae (Hildegard of Bingen) The Awakening (Chopin) Paradise Lost [I-IV, IX] (Milton) Dracula (Stoker) The Marriage of Heaven and Hell; Heart of Darkness (Conrad) Songs of Innocence and Experience; The Island of Doctor Moreau (Wells) Jerusalem [I – II] (Blake) Kappa (Akutagawa) The Prelude; Tintern Abbey, etc. (Wordsworth) Orlando; To the Lighthouse (Woolf) Easter, 1916; Sailing to Byzantium, etc. (Yeats) The Bell Jar (Plath) The Wasteland; The Hollow Men, etc. (Eliot) End Zone (DeLillo) Omeros; The Schooner Flight, etc. (Walcott) Do Androids Dream… (Dick) Outside; Prologue, etc. (Lorde) Ana Historic (Marlatt) First Nations poetry (Armstrong, Moses) Midnight’s Children (Rushdie) Dramatic Works Kappa Child (Goto) The Trial of Socrates (Aristophanes/Plato/Irvine) An Imaginary Life (Malouf) Aoi no Ue/Lady Aoi [Noh drama+Mishima] Disappearing Moon Café (Lee) Prometheus Bound (Aeschylus) Women of Sand and Myrrh (al-Shaykh) Oedipus tyrannus/Oedipus rex (Sophocles/Seneca) The Telling (Le Guin) The Bacchae; Medea (Euripides) The Road (McCarthy) Doctor Faustus (Marlowe) The Zero (Walter) Hamlet, The Tempest (Shakespeare) Philosophy The Magic Flute (Mozart) Mencius (Meng Tzu) Woyzeck (Büchner) Basic Writings (Chuang Tzu) Wozzeck (Berg) Tao Te Ching [excerpts] (Lao Tzu) Tristan und Isolde (Wagner) fragments (Anaximenes) Otello (Verdi) fragments (Democritus) Faustus Lights the Lights (Stein) Phaedrus [excerpt]; Republic; Euthyphro; Life of Galileo (Brecht) Timaeus, Theaetetus [Plato] Case of Robert Oppenheimer (Kipphardt) Metaphysics; Politics, etc. [excerpts] (Aristotle) Waiting for Godot (Beckett) On the Nature of Things [II,V] (Lucretius) Angels in America I (Kushner) On Genesis; City of God [excerpts] (Augustine) Religious and Traditional Texts Scivias; Physica [excerpts], etc. (Hildegard) Works/Days, Theogony [excerpts] (Hesiod) Essays, selected (Montaigne) Genesis Utopia (More) Gospel of John; Book of the Apocalypse The Prince (Machiavelli) Qur’an [excerpts] Leviathan [I,II + further excerpts] (Hobbes) Kojiki [excerpts] Theodicy [excerpts] (Leibniz) Myths of P’an Ku [excerpts] A Discourse on Inequality (Rousseau) Rig Veda [excerpts] ‘What is Enlightenment?’ & other essays (Kant) Popol Vuh [excerpts] ‘Paris’ Manuscripts; Theses on Feuerbach; Raven Travelling (Swanton, trans.) The German Ideology, Part I; Capital (I); Film Imperialism In India (Marx) Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein) Socialism: Utopian and Scientific; On Social Nosferatu (Murnau+Herzog) Relations in Russia; Working Class Metropolis (Lang) Manchester (Engels) Modern Times (Chaplin) Genealogy of Morality, Rashomon (Kurosawa) Twilight of the Idols (Nietzsche) Bladerunner (Scott) The Second Sex (de Beauvoir) Ulysses’ Gaze (Angelopoulos) Monolingualism Of the Other; Of Gramma- Atanarjuat, the Fast Runner (Kunuk) tology [excerpts] (Derrida) The Day After Trinity (Else) “Is There a Text in this Class?” (Fish) The Crying Game (Jordan) /cont’d… Travels and Encounters Political Tracts Arabic travel accounts (Fadlan, Jubayr, Batuta) The Communist Manifesto (Marx, Engels) Gulliver’s Travels (Swift) “The Three Peoples’ Principles” (Sun Yat-Sen) New Atlantis (Bacon) “Report on the Peasant Movement in Hunan”; Journals: Final Voyage [excerpts] (Cook) On Contradictions Among the People”(Mao) Science and Science Studies Short Fiction Physics, Parts of Animals, etc [selections] (Aristotle) In A Grove; Rashomon (Akutagawa) Alchemical writings [selections] (Paracelsus) One Good Story, That One (King) “Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina,” “On Femininity”/”Female Sexuality” (Freud) Dialogue on Two World Systems [excerpts] + Selected stories [Dupin tales, etc.] (Poe) Two New Sciences [excerpts] (Galileo) “Desirée’s Baby” (Chopin) New Organon; Prometheus (Bacon) Memoirs Discourse on Method (Descartes) Memoirs (Usama Ibn Munquidh) General Scholium; Optics [excerpts] (Newton) Six Records of a Floating Life (Shen Fu) Protogaea [excerpts] (Leibniz) The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (Stein) Origin of Species (I-VIII, XIV); Descent of Night (Wiesel) Man;Voyage of the Beagle [excerpts] (Darwin) The Double Helix (Watson) “Province of Pain”, “Popular Feeling and the Music [+ Associated Work] Advancement of Science” (Wells) Bach: “Ach Wie Nichtig” [Mozart: The Magic Flute] The Scopes Trial [transcript] + “American Chopin: 2 preludes Op. 28 [Chopin: The Awakening] Inquisitors” (Lippmann) Lehrer: “The Wild West,” “Werner von Braun,” “So Science/Politics as a Vocation (Weber) Long, Mom” [Kipphardt: The Matter of Oppenheimer]; Civilization and its Discontents; Dora; “Oedipus” [Sophocles, Seneca] “Infantile Sexuality” (Freud) Prokofiev: Toccata [Else: The Day After Trinity] The History of Sexuality, I; Wagner: Prelude/Das Rheingold [Plato: Timaeus]; The Order of Things [excerpts] (Foucault) Liebestod/Tristan und Isolde [Chopin: Awakening] The Selfish Gene (Dawkins) Weill/Brecht: “Mackie Messer” [Brecht: Life of Galileo] A Feeling for the Organism (Keller) UTO (Unidentified Textual Object) Sexual Visions (Jordanova) Faustus Lights the Lights (Stein) We Have Never Been Modern (Latour) The Scientific Revolution (Shapin)