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Traditions Spring 2011

TRADITIONS: HUMANITIES READINGS THROUGH THE AGES

• An Introduction to the Work accompanies each selection and is optional. • Lengthy works (, plays, etc.) are available by individual sections (Chapters, Act, etc.).

FIRST CIVILIZATIONS Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching Babylon, Code of Hammurabi Ancient India, The Bhagavad-Gita Ancient Egypt, The Book of the Dead (excerpt) Mesopotamia, Epic of Gilgamesh (excerpt) Ancient Maya, Popul Vuh (excerpt)

CLASSICISM: GREECE Aeschylus, Agamemnon Aristophanes, Lysistrata Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Euripides, Electra Euripides, Medea Euripides, Trojan Women Hesiod, Creation Story (Theogony) Homer, Iliad Plato, Crito Plato, The Republic Sophocles, Antigone Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

BEYOND THE WEST: WORLD HISTORY, RELIGIONS AND PHILOSOPHIES Confucius, The Analects Hindu Tradition, The Upanishads

THE AGE OF THE RENAISSANCE Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales (Prologue: The Miller’s Tale) Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Christine Pisan, The Book of the City of Ladies (excerpt) selections REFORMATION John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (excerpt) William Shakespeare, Hamlet William Shakespeare, Sonnet 2: “When forty winters shall besiege thy brow,” William Shakespeare, Sonnet 12: “When I do count the clock that tell the time,”

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William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18: “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” William Shakespeare, Sonnet 20: “A woman’s face with nature’s own hand painted,” William Shakespeare, Sonnet 29: “When in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes,” William Shakespeare, Sonnet 30: “When to the sessions of sweet silent thought,” William Shakespeare, Sonnet 40: “Take all my loves, my love, yea take them all,” William Shakespeare, Sonnet 53: “What is your substance, whereof are you made,” William Shakespeare, Sonnet 55: “Not marble, nor the gilded monuments,” William Shakespeare, Sonnet 71: “No longer mourn for me when I am dead,” William Shakespeare, Sonnet 73: “That time of year thou mayst in me behold,” William Shakespeare, Sonnet 94: “They that have power to hurt, and will do none,” William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116: “Let me not to the marriage of true minds,” William Shakespeare, Sonnet 129: “Th’ expense of spirit in a waste of shame,” William Shakespeare, Sonnet 130: “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun,” William Shakespeare, Sonnet 146: “Poor soul the centre of my sinful earth,”

NEW WORLDS AND ENCOUNTERS James Cook, The Three Voyages of Captain James Cook (excerpt) Marco Polo, Travels of Marco Polo (excerpt) Vaclav Prutky, Prutky’s Travels in Ethiopia (excerpt)

THE AGE OF THE BAROQUE Alphra Behn, Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave René Descartes, Discourse on the Method John Donne, Meditation XVII John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding , Blaise Pascal, Selection from Pensées

ENLIGHTENMENT Olaudah Equiano, from Travels (excerpt) Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels Phillis Wheatley, “An Hymn to the Evening” Phillis Wheatley, “On Being Brought from Africa to America” Phillis Wheatley, “On the Death of the Reverend Mr. George Whitefield” Phillis Wheatley, “To His Excellency General Washington” Phillis Wheatley, “To S.M. a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works” Phillis Wheatley, “To the University of Cambridge, in New-, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

ROMANTICISM Lord , Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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Lord Byron, Don Juan Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass , “Brahma” Ralph Waldo Emerson, First Series — I: History Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays First Series — II: Self-Reliance Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays First Series — IV: Spiritual Laws Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays First Series — V: Love Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays First Series — VI: Friendship Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays First Series — VII: Prudence Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays First Series — VIII: Heroism Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays First Series — IX: The Over-Soul Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays First Series — X: Circles Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays First Series — XII: Art Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays Second Series — XIII: The Poet Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays Second Series — XIV: Experience Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays Second Series — XV: Character Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays Second Series — XVI: Manners Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays Second Series — XVII: Gifts Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays Second Series — XVIII: Nature Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays Second Series — XIX: Politics Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays Second Series — XX: Nominalist and Realist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust , “Ode on a Grecian Um” Mary Shelley, , “” Shen Fu, Six Records of a Floating Life (excerpt) Henry David Thoreau, Walden Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass — “Song of Myself” Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass — “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass — “Drum Taps” , “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey”

INDUSTRIALISM AND REALISM Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour” Charles Dickens, David Copperfield Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House Karl Marx and Engels, Communist Manifesto John Stuart Mill, On the Subjection of Women Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

MODERNISM T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken”

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Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human (excerpt) Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy (excerpt) Sartre, Existentialism Dylan Thomas, “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” William Butler Yeats, “The Second Coming”

GLOBALISM AND THE INFORMATION AGE Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (excerpt) Gwendolyn Brooks, “A song in the front yard” Gwendolyn Brooks, “Horses Graze” Gwendolyn Brooks, “The Bean Eaters Gwendolyn Brooks, “The Lovers of the Poor” Gwendolyn Brooks, “We Real Cool” Langston Hughes, “Weary Blues” Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter from Birmingham Jail” Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior (excerpt) Maxine Hong Kingston, “No Name Woman”

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