Humanities 1 & 2

Welcome to Humanities 1 and 2!

 

Hums headerPictured above: Laocoön and His Sons, artist unknown, marble, circa 200 BC; Diagonale, Sonia Delaunay, tapestry in wool, circa 1970


Humanities 2 - winter 2023
The Modern Labyrinth: Body & Spirit

READINGS

  1. W. E. B. Du Bois, "Of Our Spiritual Strivings" from The Souls of Black Folk - Independently Published (April 10, 2022), ISBN-13: ‎ 979-8411565218 
  2. William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra - Ed. Barbara Everett, Signet; Revised edition (October 1, 1998), ISBN-10: ‎ 0451527135, ISBN-13: 978-0451527134
  3. John Milton, Paradise Lost - ed. Gordon Teskey, W. W. Norton & Company; Second edition (October 5, 2020), ISBN-10: ‎ 0393617084, ISBN-13: 978-0393617085
  4. José Rivera, Marisol - Theatre Communications Group; 1st edition (April 1, 1997), ISBN-10: ‎ 1559361360, ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1559361361
  5. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Aphorisms from The Waste Books - NYRB Classics; 1st edition (September 30, 2000), ISBN-10: ‎ 0940322501, ISBN-13: 978-0940322509 
  6. Octavia Butler, "Bloodchild," "Amnesty" from Bloodchild and Other Stories - Seven Stories Press; A 4 Walls 8 Windows ed. edition (July 1, 2003), ISBN-10: ‎ 1888363363, ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1888363364
  7. Montaigne, Essays - [copies of these essays will be provided in class]
  8. Céline Sciamma, Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  9. Pieter Breughel the Elder, The Fall of the Rebel Angels
  10. Wangechi Mutu, Double Fuse

humanities 1 - FALL 2022
DIALOGUES WITH THE CLASSICS

READINGS

  1. Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Decolonizing the Mind - [reading will be posted on Canvas] James Currey Ltd / Heinemann (January 15, 2011), ISBN-10: 0852555016, ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0852555019
  2. Homer, The Odyssey - trans. Robert Fagles (1995), ISBN-10: ‎ 9609012205, ISBN-13: ‎ 978-9609012201
  3. Toni Morrison, Home - Vintage; Reprint edition (January 1, 2013), ISBN-10: ‎ 9780307740915 , ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0307740915
  4. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, The 1818 Text - Oxford World Classics (2020), ISBN-10: ‎ 0198840829, ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0198840824
  5. Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents - Ed. Samuel Moyn. Norton Critical Edition (2021), ISBN-10: ‎ 0393617092, ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0393617092
  6. Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron - Trans. and ed., Wayne A. Rebhorn. W. W. Norton & Company; First edition (September 21, 2015), ISBN-10: ‎ 9780393935622, ISBN-13: 978-0393935622
  7. Akira Kurosawa, Rashomon - [in-person screening of the film will be held for the group]
  8. Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold - Vintage; Reprint edition (October 7, 2003), ISBN-10: 9781400034710, ISBN-13: 978-1400034710
  9. Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart - Penguin Publishing Group (September 1, 1994), ISBN-10: ‎ 0385474547, ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0385474542  

 

Note: students are kindly encouraged to order the required course material for Humanities 1 from Still North Books, the local independent shop for new books in Hanover, New Hampshire.

 

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The Humanities at Dartmouth

The humanities sequence is hosted by The Leslie Center for the Humanities. The Leslie Center provides support to the humanities at Dartmouth through colloquia, seminars, symposia, and conferences, as well as activities for students, faculty and visitors.