Traditions
Spring 2011
TRADITIONS:
selections
HUMANITIES READINGS THROUGH THE AGES
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An Introduction to the Work accompanies each selection and is optional.
Lengthy works (novels, 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)
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
John Milton, Paradise Lost
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-England”
Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
ROMANTICISM
Lord Byron, Don Juan
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
Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Brahma”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays 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
John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Um”
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind”
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”
William Wordsworth, “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)
Jean Paul 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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