Return to Winter Quarter Home Page
 

Winter Quarter Reading List:
Readings from The Art of the Renaissance will be assigned weekly.

Murray, P. and L. The Art of the Renaissance.

W. I)     Calasso, R.  Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony   * Read this text for the first week of the Winter quarter.

W.II)     Orr, G.  Orpheus and Eurydice
              Ovid. Metamorphosis.  (BE SURE AND GET THE TED HUGHES VERSION OF THIS!)
              Rilke, R-M. Sonnets to Orpheus.

W. III)   Kafka, The Metamorphosis (Norton Critical Edition) Read the text, Background and Contexts, and critical essays
                by Corngold, Straus and Sweeney.

W. IV)   Shakespeare, W. Macbeth
              Ionesco. Macbett

W. V)    Mann, T. Death in Venice  or Dr. Faustus   *Read Dr. Faustus if you have read Death in Venice  recently.

W. VI)   Carpentier, A.  The Lost Steps

W. VII)  Césaire, A.  Collected Poetry and other readings. (hand-out)

W. VIII) Genet, J.  The Blacks

W. IX)   Camus, A. Myth of Sisyphus

W. X)   No readings this week. Student Presentations will take place all three class days.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

In addition, there will be a packet of short articles that will be placed in the open reserve.  You need to make your own copies.

Students with the faculty signature who are joining the program in the Winter quarter;  in addition to the Calasso book for the first week, you must read during the Winter break Euripides's plays "Bacchae" and "Medea", Sartre's play "The Flies" and Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy .