MASTER BOOK LIST FOR HUMA 5300
Ades, Dawn. The Dada Reader: a Critical Anthology. University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Adorno, Theodor W. Philosophy of Modern Music, Seabury Press, 1980.
Agresto, John & Peter Riesenberg. The Humanist as Citizen.
Alter, Robert. The Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age. W.W. Norton, 1990.
Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of
Nationalism. 1983. Verso, revised 2006.
Antokoletz, Elliott. Twentieth Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Prentice Hall, 1992.
Apollonio, Umbro, ed. Futurist Manifestos, Thames & Hudson, 1973.
Apter, Emily. The Translation Zone: A New Comparative Literature. Princeton University
Press, 2005.
Arendt, Hannah. The Human Condition. 1958.
Ariès, Phillipe. Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life. Vintage, 1965.
Ariès, Phillipe. Western Attitudes Toward Death. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975.
Armstrong, Robert P. Wellspring.
Arnason, H. H. History of Modern Art Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Englewood Cliffs,
N.J. 1968.
Arnheim, Rudolf. Visual Thinking.
Arnheim, Rudolf. Art and Visual Perception. California: University of California Press, 1954.
Artaud, Antonin. The Theatre and its Double.
Auerbach, Erich. Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
Austin, William W. Music in the 20th Century.
Bachelard, Gaston. The Poetics of Space.
Bachofen, I. Myth, Religion, and Mother Right.
Baker, Paul. Integration of Abilities: Exercises for Creative Growth. 1972.
Barraclough, Geoffrey. Main Trends in History. Holmes and Meier. 1979.
Barrett, William. A Time of Need: Forms of Imagination in the 20th Century.
Barthes, Roland. The Pleasure of the Text.
Barthes, Roland. Image, Music, Text.
Barzun, Jacques. The Use and Abuse of Art.
Barzun, Jacques. The House of Intellect.
Barzun, Jacques. Simple and Direct.
Barzun, Jacques. The Culture We Deserve: A Critique of Disenlightenment. 1982.
Barzun, J. and Graff, Henry. The Modern Researcher.
Bassnett, Susan. Comparative Literature: A Critical Introduction. Blackwell, 1993.
Bateson, Gregory. Steps to an Ecology of Mind
Battcock, Gregory, ed. Minimal Art, A Critical Anthology, Dutton, 1968.
Bayer, Herbert, Gropius, Walter, eds. Bauhaus 1919-1928, London, 1959.
Becker, Ernest. The Denial of Death. New York: The Free Press, 1973.
Bell, Daniel. The Coming of the Post-Industrial Society: A Venture in Social
Forecasting. NY: Basic Books, 1973.
Benedikt, Michael. For an Architecture of Reality. Lumen Books, 1992.
Benkler, Yochai. The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and
Freedom. Yale University Press, 2007.
Berger, John. Ways of Seeing. 1972.
Bernstein, L. The Unanswered Question. 1976.
Bergson, Henri. Creative Evolution. Translated by Arthur Mitchell. New York: The Modern
Library, 1944.
Bergson, Henri. Laughter.
Bérubé, Michael. Rhetorical Occasions: Essays on Humans and the Humanities. University of
North Carolina Press, 2006.
Blanchot, Maurice. The Space of Literature. 1989.
Bloom, Harold. The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages. 1985.
Bolter, Jay David. Remediation: Understanding New Media. MIT Press, 2000.
Bolter, J. David. Writing Space: Computers, Hypertext, and the Remediation of Print
Lawrence Erlbaum, 2001 (2nd Edition).
Borgmann, Albert. Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life.
Boulding, Kenneth. The Meaning of the Twentieth Century: The Great Transition. NY: Harper
and Row, 1964.
Boulding, Kenneth. The Image. 1956.
Brand, Stewart. The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT. New York: Viking Penguin,
1987.
Breton, Andre. Surrealism and Painting.
Brindle, Reginal Smith. The New Music Avant-garde since 1945.. 2nd Ed. Oxford University
Press. 1987.
Brook, Peter. The Empty Space.
Bronowski, J. Science and Human Values.
Brown, Norman. Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History. Wesleyan, 2nd
Bruns, Axel. Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life and Beyond: From Production to Produsage. Peter
Lang, 2008.
Brunstein, Robert. The Theater of Revolt, 1964.
Brook, Peter. The Empty Space.
Burke, Peter (Ed.). New Perspectives on Historical Writing. 2nd Ed., Penn State University Press,
2001.
Burnham, Jack. Beyond Modern Sculpture: The Effects of Science and Technology on the
Sculpture of This Century, 1968.
Caillois, Roger. Man, Play, and Games. 2001.
Capra, Fritjof. The Turning Point.
Carr, E. H. The Twenty Years' Crisis.: 1919-1939. McMillan, 1939, rev. 2001.
Carr, Nicholas. The Big Switch: Rewiring the World from Edison to Google. W.W. Norton, 2009
(Reprint).
Casanova, Pascale. The World Republic of Letters. Harvard University Press, 2007.
Cassirer, Ernst. Language and Myth; The Logic of the Humanities; The Problem of Knowledge.
Chipp, Herschel B. (ed.) Theories of Modern Art. Univ. of California Press, 1968.
Clark, William. Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University. U. of C. Press,
2007.
Clements, Robert J. Comparative Literature as Academic Discipline: A Statement of Principles,
Praxis, Standards. MLA, 1978.
Collingwood, R.G. The Idea of History. Oxford University Press, Revised Ed. 1994.
Copland, Aaron. What to Listen for In Music.
Copland, Aaron. The New Music, 1900-1960. Norton, 1968.
Copland, Aaron. Music and the Imagination. 1953.
Cornish, Edward. The Study of the Future.
Cox, Cristoph (ed.). Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music. Continuum, 2004.
Crawford, John C. Expressionism in Twentieth-Century Music. Indiana University Press, 1993.
Curtius, Ernst. European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages.
Csikszentmikalyi, Mihaly and Rick E. Robinson. The Art of Seeing: An Interpretation of the
Aesthetic Encounter. J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Center for Education in the Arts.
1990.
Damrosch, David. What is World Literature? Princeton University Press, 2003.
Damrosc, David. How to Read World Literature. 2008.
Davenport, William. The One Culture
Davis, David B. The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture. Oxford University Press, 2008.
Davis, David B. Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and fall of Slavery in the New World. Oxford
University Press, 2008.
Davis, Douglas. Art and the Future/ A History/ Prophecy of the Collaboration Between Science,
Technology and Art.
Davis, Natalie Z. Society and Culture in Early Modern France. Stanford University Press, 1975.
De Certeau, Michel. The Writing of History. Columbia University Press, 1992.
deSaussure, Ferdinand. General Course in Linguistics.
Dickie, George and Richard J. Sclafoni. Aesthetics: A Critical Anthology. 1989.
Drucker, Peter. The Age of Discontinuity.
D’Souza, Dinesh. Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus. 1998.
Eisenstein, Sergei. Film form: Essays in Film Theory. Mariner, 1969.
Ellman, R. and Feidelson, C. (eds.) The Modern Tradition.
Emmer, Michele. The Visual Mind II. MIT Press, 2006.
Esslin, Martin. The Theatre of the Absurd, rev. and updated ed., 1973.
Fabozzi, Paul F. Artists, Critics, Context: Readings in and Around American Art Since 1945.
Prentice Hall, 2001.
Feenburg, Andrew. Questioning Technology. Routlage, 1999.
Ferro, Marc. The Use and Abuse of History, or How the Past is Taught to Children. Routledge,
2nd Ed., 2003.
Fielder, Leslie. Love and Death in the American Novel. Dalkey Archive Press, 1998.
Fleming, Willam. Arts and Ideas: New Brief Edition, 1974.
Fletcher, Angus. A New Theory for American Poetry: Democracy, the Environment, and the
Future of Imagination. Harvard University Press, 2006.
Forte, Allen. The Structure of Atonal Music. Yale University Press.
Foster, Hal. The Return of the Real: Art and Theory at the End of the Century. MIT Press. 1996.
Foster, Hal (ed.). The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture. New Press, 2002.
Foucault, Michel. The Order of Things: An Archaeology of Human Sciences.
Foucault, Michel. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in an Age of Reason. Vintage,
1988.
Frampton, Kenneth. Modern Architecture, A Critical History. Oxford, 1980.
Friedrich, Werner P. and Malone, David H. Outline of Comparative Literature from Dante
Aligheiri to Eugene O’Neill. University of North Carolina Press, 1954.
Fussell, Paul. The Great War and Modern Memory. Oxford University Press, 1975.
Galloway, Alexander. The Exploit: A Theory of Networks. University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
Gao, Xingiian. The Case for Literature. Translated by Mabel Lee. Yale University Press, 2008.
Gardner, Howard. Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons in Theory and Practice (Revised
Edition). Basic Books, 2006.
Geertz, Clifford. The Interpretation of Cultures. Harper, 1960.
Giedion, S. Space, Time, and Architecture.
Gombrich, E.H. Art and Illusion.
Goodman, Nelson. Languages of Art, 1968.
Graff, Anthony G. Professing Literature: An Institutional History.
Griffiths, Paul. A Concise History of Avant-Garde Music: From Debussy to Boulez. Oxford
University Press, 1978.
Gunkel, David. Thinking Otherwise: Philosophy, Communication, Technology. Purdue
University Press, 2007.
Haftman, Werner. Painting in the Twentieth Century. Vol 1 An Analysis of the Artists and their
Works; vol. 2 A Pictorial Survey. 1973.
Hall, Edward T. Beyond Culture.
Hall, James B. & Ulanov, Barry (eds.) Modern Culture and the Arts.
Handa, Carolyn. Visual Rhetoric in a Digital World. 2004.
Hansen, Mark B.N. Bodies in Code: Interfaces with Digital Media. Routledge, 2006.
Hauser, Arnold. Social History of Art (4 volumes). Routledge, 3rd Ed. 1999.
Hawthorne, Jeremy. A Concise Glossary of Contemporary Literary Theory. Edward Arnold,
1992.
Hayles, N. Katherine. My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts.
University Of Chicago Press. 2005
Hazard, Paul. The European Mind: 1680-1715, The Critical Years. Fordham University Press,
1990.
Hegarty, Paul Noise/Music: A History. Continuum, 2007.
Heidegger, Martin. Trans. John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson. Being and Time. New York:
Harper and Row, 1962.
Heisenberg, Werner. Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Sciences.
Higham, John. History: Professional Scholarship in America. Johns Hopkins University Press.
1983, updated, 1989.
Higgie, Jennifer (Ed). The Artist’s Joke. MIT Press, 2007.
Hobsbawm, Eric and Ranger, Terence, eds. The Invention of Tradition. Cambridge University
Press, 1983. Updated 1992.
Hodin, J.P. Modern Art and the Modern Mind. Western Reserve University, 1972.
Hofstadter, Douglas. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Holman, C. Hugh and William Harmon. A Handbook to Literature. Sixth Edition., 1992.
Holton, Gerald. Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought: Kepler to Einstein. Harvard University
Press, 1988.
Howe, Irwin. The Idea of the Modern in Literature and the Arts. 1967.
Hughes, H. Stuart. Consciousness and Society.
Hughes, Robert. The Shock of the New. 1981.
Huizinga, J.J. Homo Ludens.
Huizinga, Johann J. The Waning of the Middle Ages.
Hughes, Robert. Nothing if not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists. Penguin, 1992.
Ingram, David and J. Simon-Ingram. Critical Theory: The Essential Readings.
Jaspers, Karl. Man in the Modern Age.
Jeanneney, Jean-Noel. Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge: A View from Europe.
University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Jenkins, Henry. Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide.NYU Press, 2008.
Jung, C.G. Man and His Symbols.
Kaiser, Wolfgang . The Grotesque in Art and Literature.
Kamien, Roger. Music: An Appreciation. McGraw Hill, 1984.
Kammen, Michael, ed. The Past Before Us. Cornell University Press. 1980.
Kaufman, Walter. The Future of the Humanities.
Kepes, Gyorgy. The New Landscape in Art and Science.
Kerman, Joseph. Listen. Worth Publishers, 1972.
Kirby, Michael. Art of Time.
Klein, Julie Thompson. Interdisciplinarity: History, Theory, & Practice. 1991.
Kockelmans, Joseph J., ed. Interdisciplinarity and Higher Education.
Koestler, Arthur. The Act of Creation.
Konner, Melvin. The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit.
Kraus, Rosalind. Passages in Modern Sculpture, MIT, 1981.
Kuhn, Thomas. The Structure of Scientific Revolution. (2nd ed.) Chicago, 1962.
LaCapra, Dominick. Rethinking Intellectual History: Texts, Contexts, Language.
LaCapra, Dominick. History and Criticism. Cornell UP. 1985.
Lakoff, George and Mark Johnson. Metaphors We Live By.
Langer, Susanne K. Feeling and Form, 1956.
Langer, Susanne K. Philosophy in a New Key, 3rd ed., 1957.
Langer, Susanne K. Problems of Art: Ten Philosophical Lectures, 1957.
Laslett, Peter. The World We Have Lost. 4th Ed. Routledge 2004.
Latham, Alison. The Oxford Companion to Music. 2002.
Lawall, Sarah, ed. Reading World Literature: Theory, History, Practice. University of Texas
Press, 1994.
Leonard, George. Education and Ecstasy.
Lewis, C.S. The Discarded Image.
Lifton, Robert. The Protean Self: Human Resilience in an Age of Fragmentation. U. of Chicago
Press, 1999.
Lippard, Lucy. Pop Art. 1967.
Lippard, Lucy. The Pink Glass Swan: Selected Essays on Feminist Art. New Press, 1995.
Lippard, Lucy. The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society. New Press,
1998.
Lovejoy, Arthur. The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea.
Lucie-Smith, Edward. Late Modern/ The Visual Arts Since 1945. Oxford, 1975.
Mannheim, Karl. Ideology and Utopia: Sociology of Knowledge.
Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media. 2002.
Marcus, Stephen. The Other Victorians. 1966.
Marx, Leo. The Machine in the Garden.
Massumi, Brian. Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation. Duke University Press,
2002.
May, Rollo. The Courage to Create
Matthews, J.H. The Imagery of Surrealism.
Matthiessen, F. O. American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and
Whitman.
McLaughlin, Kevin. Paperwork: Fiction and Mass Mediacy in the Paper Age. University of
Pennsylvania Press, 2005.
McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media: The extensions of Man. MIT Press 1994.
McLuhan, Marshall. The Essential McLuhan. Basic Books, 1996.
Mead, Margaret. World Enough: Rethinking the Future. Boston: Little, Brown, 1975.
Miller, Perry. Writings on the Puritans. The New England Mind: The 17th Century, From
Colony to Province, Errand Into the Wilderness, and Nature’s Nation.
Mitchell, J.L. ed. Computers in the Humanities
Mitchell, W.J.T. ed. The Language of Images. U of Chicago Press, 1982.
Mitchell, W.J.T. ed. The Politics of Interpretation. U of Chicago Press, 1983.
Moholy-Nagy, L. The New Vision.
Moholy-Nagy, L. Vision in Movement.
Monaco, James. How to Read a Film.
Morgan, George W. The Human Predicament: Dissolution and Wholeness. Providence, Brown
University Press, 1968.
Morgan, Robert P. Twentieth-Century Music: A History of Musical Style Modern Europe and
America. Norton Introduction to Music History. 1991.
Mumford, L. The Condition of Man.
Mumford, Lewis. Technics and Civilization.
Munro, Eleanor. Originals: American Women Artists. Da Capo Press, 2000.
Negroponte, Nicholas, being digital. 1996.
Nietzsche. Beyond Good and Evil. (1886), Tr. W. Kaufmann. Vintage.
Nisbet, Robert. Social Change and History.
Ong, Walter. Orality and Literacy. Routlage, 2002.
Ortega y Gasset. The Dehumanization of Art.
Panofsky, Erwin. Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism.
Paz, Octavio. Marcel Duchamp, or the Castle of Purity.
Perl, Jed. New Art City: Manhattan at Mid-Century. Vintage, 2007.
Piaget, Jean. Psychology and Epistemology: Towards a Theory of Knowledge.
Pleasants, Henry. The Agony of Modern Music. 1955.
Polyani, Karl. Personal Knowledge.
Polyani, Karl. The Great Transformation.
Poulet, George. Studies in Human Time.
Preminger, Alex. The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, rev. ed, 1993.
Ranciere, Jacques. The Future of the Image. Verso, 2009 (reprint).
Rapetti, Rudolph. Symbolism. Flammarion, 2006.
Read, Herbert. The Meaning of Art. 1964.
Read, Herbert. Education through Art.
Reich, Robert B. The Next American Frontier.
Ricoeur, Paul. Memory, History, Forgetting. Transl. Kathleen Blamey and David Pellauer.
University of Chicago, 2006.
Ricoeur, Paul. The Rule of Metaphor: The Creation of Meaning in Language. Routlage, 2003 (3rd
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Rosen, Charles. Romantic Poets, Critics, and Other Madmen. Harvard University Press, 2000.
Rosen, Charles. Arnold Shoenberg. Viking.
Rosen, Charles. The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven. 1970.
Rosenberg, Harold. Discovering the Present: Three Decades in Art, Culture, and Politics. 1973.
Rosenberg, Harold. The De-Definition of Art: Action Art to Pop to Earthworks. 1972.
Rossi, Paolo. Philosophy, Technology and the Arts in the Early Modern Era.
Russell, John. The Meanings of Modern Art. Harper, 1981.
Salzman, Eric. Twentieth-Century Music: An Introduction. Prentice Hall 4th Ed, 2001.
Schjeldahl, Peter. The Hydrogen Jukebox: Selected Writings, 1978-1990. University of
California Press, 1993.
Schneider, L. Idea of Culture in the Social Sciences.
Schwartz, Elliott & Daniel Godfrey. Music Since 1945: Issues, Materials and Literature.
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Shattuck Roger. The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant Garde in France, 1885 to World
War I. 1969.
Shapiro, Theda. Painters and Politics.
Shirky, Clay. Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations.
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Snow, C.P. The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution.
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Radical Juxtaposition," "Notes on Camp"). 1966.
Sontag, Susan. On Photography.
Sontag, Susan. Styles of Radical Will ("The Aaesthetics of Silence")
Spengler, Oswald. The Decline of the West.
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorti. Death of a Discipline. Columbia University Press, 2005.
Steiner, George. After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation.
Stein, Leonard (ed.). Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg. Translations by Leo Black. St.
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Stern, Fritz. The Politics of Cultural Despair.
Stewart, Garrett. The Look of Reading: Book, Painting, Text. University of Chicago Press,
2006.
Stravinsky, Ivor. The Poetics of Music.
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Taylor, Timothy D. Beyond Exoticism: Western Music and the World. Duke University Press,
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Tharp, Twyla. The Creative Habit. Simon and Schuster, 2005.
Thomas, Keith. Religion and the Decline of Magic.
Thomas, Lewis. The Lives of a Cell.
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Watkins, Glenn. Soundings: Music in the Twentieth Century. Schirmer Books, 1988.
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Technical Means. MIT Press, 2008.
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