Texts and Editions for 2012-2013

Fall Semester

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein: the original 1818 text. Broadview Press, 3rd edition, 2012. ISBN: 9781554811038.

Charles Darwin, Origin of Species: A Facsimile of the First Edition (1859). Intro. Ernst Mayr. Harvard University Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780674637528.

Robert Alter, Genesis. 1997. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN-10: 039331670X.

The Qur’an. Trans. M.A.S. Abdel Haleem. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 0199535957.

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex. Trans. Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier. New York: Vintage, 2011. ISBN: 030727778X.

The Bhagavad Gita. Trans. Barbara Stoler Miller. Bantam Classics. ISBN: 0553213652.

Plato, Symposium. Trans. Nehamas and Woodruff. ISBN: 0872200760.

Augustine, Confessions. Trans. Pine-Coffin. Penguin. ISBN: 014044114x.

Christine de Pizan, The Selected writings of Christine de Pizan. Trans. Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski and Kevin Brownlee, ed. Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski. W.W. Norton & Co. ISBN: 0393970108.

Euripides, The Bacchae. Trans. Arrowsmith. In Euripides V. Eds. Grene and Lattimore. U. Chicago Press. ISBN: 0226307840.

John Keats, Lyric Poems. Dover Thrift Edition ISBN: 0486268713.

Pedro Almodóvar, All About my Mother (film). Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

Diana Hacker, A Pocket Style Manual, 6th ed. Bedford/St. Martins. ISBN: 9780312542542.

Spring Semester

Karl Marx, Selected Writings. Ed. Laurence H. Simon. Hackett. ISBN: 0872202186.

Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals. Trans. Douglas Smith. Oxford World Classics: Oxford. ISBN: 9780199537082.

M.K. Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings Centenary Edition. Cambridge University Press. ISBN-10: 052114602X.

Gillo Pontecorvo, The Battle of Algiers (film). Criterion.

William Shakespeare, The Tempest. Signet Classics (Penguin). Updated edition. ISBN: 0451527127.

Aimé Césaire, A Tempest. Theatre Communications Group/TGC Translations. ISBN: 1559362103.

Francis Bacon, The New Organon. Eds. Lisa Jardine, Michael Silverthorne. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 0521564832.

Werner Heisenberg, “The Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Theory” (a 13-page handout).

Art Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History. Pantheon Books. ISBN: 0394747232.

Art Spiegelman, Maus II: A Survivor’s Tale: And Here My Troubles Began. Pantheon Books. ISBN: 0679729771.

Toni Morrison, Beloved. Vintage. ISBN: 1400033411.

Bill McKibben, Eaarth : Making a Life on a Tough New Planet. St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN: 0312541198.