Texts and Editions

 

 Fall 2011

 

·     Homer, The Odyssey, transl. by Robert Fagles. Penguin Books. ISBN:0-14-026886-3 

·     The Bhagavad Gita, transl. Barbara Stoler Miller. Bantam Classics. ISBN: 0-55-321365-2

·     Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Paperback) Pantheon Books. ISBN: 0394747232

·     Spiegelman, Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Paperback) Pantheon Books. ISBN: 0679729771

·     Tanakh, the Holy Scriptures. Jewish Publication Society.  ISBN: 0-8276-0366-5

·     Euripides.  “The Bacchae,” trans. Arrowsmith. In Euripides V, eds. Grene and
Lattimore, U. Chicago Press.  ISBN: 0-226-30784-0.

·     The New Testament, New Revised Standard Version (NRSV), multiple editions

·     The Qur’an, trans. M.A.S. Abdel Haleem. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 0-1995-3595-7

·     Ibn Ishaq, Life of Muhammad, on e-reserve

·     Seneca, Selected Letters, transl. Elaine Fantham, Oxford World Classic.  ISBN-10: 0199533210

·     Seneca, “On the Private Life,” on e-reserve

·     Marx, Selected Writings, ed. Laurence H. Simon.  Hackett. ISBN: 0-87220-218-6

·     Pontecorvo, Battle of Algiers. screening and DVD in library 

·     Gandhi, Selected Political Writings, ed. Dennis Dalton. Hackett. ISBN: 0-87220-330-1; “The Message of the Gita” on e-reserve.

·     King, “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/resources/article/annotated_letter_from_birmingham/

·     Diana Hacker, A Pocket Style Manual, 5th ed. Bedford/St. Martins.  ISBN: 0-312-59324-4

Spring 2012

 

·     Plato.  Symposium, trans. Nehamas and Woodruff. ISBN: 0-87220-076-0

·     Augustine, Confessions, trans. Pine-Coffin.  Penguin.  ISBN: 0-14-044114-x

·     Shakespeare, Othello, ed. McDonald.  Penguin. ISBN: 0-14-071463-4

·     Galileo, “Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina,”  http://www.disf.org/en/documentation/03-Galileo_Cristina.asp

·     Descartes, Discourse on the Method for Conducting One’s Reason Well and Seeking Truth in the Sciences, trans. Cress. 3rd ed. Hackett. ISBN: 0-87220-422-7

·     Kurosawa, Rashomon; screening and DVD in library

·     Frayn, Copenhagen. Anchor Books.  ISBN: 0-38572-079-3

·     The Broken Spears, ed. Portilla, trans. Kemp., rev. ed. Beacon Press. ISBN: 0-80705-500-x

·     Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Poems, Protest, and a Dream: Selected Writings, trans. Peden, Penguin Classics. ISBN: 0-14044-703-2

·     Euripides, “The Trojan Women,”  trans. Lattimore. In Euripides III, eds. Grene and
Lattimore, U. Chicago. ISBN-10: 0226307824

·     The New Testament, New Revised Standard Version (NRSV), multiple editions

·     Conrad, The Heart of Darkness, Oxford Univ. Press ISBN: 978-0-19-953601-6

·     Morrison, Beloved. Vintage. ISBN:1-40003-341-1