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

  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