September 27, 1993 Organizational Meeting and Introductory Reading
October 12 1993
Chekhov Rothschild's
Fiddle
(Questions for discussion are in the Great Books Discussion Series 1.)
(Year parenthetical notes are selections from the Great Books 10 Year Reading Program.)October 26, 1993
Aristotle On Happiness
November 9, 1993 Great Books, Vol 7 (Year 1 # 1)
Plato The Apology
November 23, 1993
Conrad Heart of Darkness
December 7, 1993
Kant Conscience
January 18, 1994
Marx Alienated Labor
February 1, 1994
Bible Genesis
February 15, 1994 Great Books, Vol 54, pp 767-802
Freud Civilization and Its Discontents (Year 9 # 18)
March 1, 1994 Great Books, Vol 38
Rousseau The Social Contract (Year 1 # 14)
March 15, 1994
Darwin The Moral Sense of Man and the Lower Animals
March 29, 1994 Great Books, Vol 27
Shakespeare Othello (Year 8 # 7)
April 12, 1994 Great Books, Vol 35
Hume Of Justice and Injustice
April 19, 1994 (This was my first time at the alternate Tuesday group)
Woolf Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own
April 26, 1994
Tocqueville The Power of the Majority
May 3, 1994 Delmore Schwartz
Schwartz In
Dreams Begin Responsibilities
May 10, 1994 Georg Simmel
Simmel Individual Freedom
May 17, 1994 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 1 - 13
Plato Charmides (Temperance)
May 24, 1994 Great Books, Vol 5, pp 131 - 142
Sophocles Antigone (Year
2 # 3)
May 31, 1994 pp 1 - 63
Mortimer Adler Six Great Ideas
June 7, 1994 Great Books, Vol 5, pp 488-506, 583-599
Aristophanes Clouds, Lysistrata (Year 1 #2)
June 14, 1994 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 14 - 25
Plato Lysis (Friendship)
June 21, 1994 Adler pp 64 - 98
June 28, 1994 Great Books, Vol 24, pp 1 - 126
Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel [Book I - II] (Year 1 #10)
July 5, 1994 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 26 - 37
Plato Laches (Courage)
July 12, 1994 Adler pp 99 - 134
July 19, 1994 Great Books, Vol 9, pp 339 - 348
Aristotle Ethics [Book I]
July 26, 1994 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 38 - 64
Plato Protagoras
August 2, 1994 Adler pp 135 - 154
August 9, 1994 Great Books, Vol 5, pp 40 - 51
Aeschylus Prometheus Bound (Year 3#1)
August 16, 1994 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 65 - 84
Plato Euthydemus
August 23, 1994 Adler pp 155 - 208
August 30, 1994 Great Books, Vol 22, pp 1 - 155
Chaucer Troilus and Cressida (Year 3 #10)
September 6, 1994 Adler pp 209 - 243
September 13, 1994 Organizational Meeting and Introductory Reading
September 20, 1994 Great Books, Vol 20, pp 205 - 239 (Year 3 # 9)
Saint Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica [Part I - II, QQ 90 - 97]
September 27, 1994 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 200 - 219 (Year 1# 1)
Plato The
Crito
October 4, 1994 Great Books, Vol 12, pp 105 - 245
Epictetus Discourses (Year 7 # 6)
October 11, 1994 John Dewey
Dewey The Virtues
(Questions for discussion are in the Great Books Discussion Series 2.)
October 18, 1994 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 85 - 114
Plato Cratylus
October 25, 1994 Great Books, Vol 5
Euripides Iphigeneia at Aulis
November 1, 1994 Great Books, Vol 32, pp 381 - 412
Milton Aeropagitica (Year 2 # 12)
November 8, 1994 Great Books, Vol 9, pp 445-455
Aristotle Politics (Year 1 # 5)
November 15, 1994 Great Books, Vol 30, pp 1 - 55
Bacon Advancement of Learning (Year 8 # 8)
November 22, 1994
Dostoevsky Notes from Underground
November 29, 1994 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 115 - 141
Plato Phaedrus
December 6, 1994
Bible Exodus
December 13, 1994 Grace Paley - "An Interest in Life" (15 pages)
December 20, 1994 Bhagavad-Gita. Mascaro translation.
December 27, 1994 Great Books, Vol 14, pp 32-64, 540-604 (Year 1 # 6)
Plutarch The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
January 3, 1995
Dickinson Emily Dickinson: Selected Poems (chosen by Bruce Feistner)
from T H Johnson (ed) The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
January 10, 1995 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 142 - 173
Plato Ion and Symposium (Year 7 # 2)
January 17, 1995
Hobbes Origin of Government
January 24, 1995 Great Books, Vol 18, pp 1 - 61
St. Augustine Confessions [Book I - VIII] (Year 1 # 8)
January 31, 1995
Melville Billy Budd
February 7, 1995 Great Books, Vol 25, pp 55 - 80,115 - 125 (Year 1 # 11)
Montaigne Essays [Pedantry; Education of Children; Relish of Good & Evil]
February 14, 1995 Great Books, Vol 39, pp 1 - 41
Smith Wealth of Nations (Year 1 # 17)
February 21, 1995 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 174 - 199
Plato Meno and Euthyphro (Year 2 # 5)
February 28, 1995 Great Books, Vol 27
Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra (Year 7# 11)
March 7, 1995 Great Books, Vol 12, pp 253 - 310
Marcus Aurelius Meditations (Year 2 # 10)
March 14, 1995
Kierkegaard The Knight of Faith
March 21, 1995 Great Books, Vol 19, pp 3 - 75
Saint Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica [Part I, QQ 1 - 13] (Year 6 # 8)
March 28, 1995 Great Books, Vol 6
Herodotus The Persian Wars (Year 3 # 2)
April 4, 1995 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 200 - 251
Plato Apology, Crito, and Phaedo (Year 1 # 1) & (Year 5 # 1)
April 11, 1995 Great Books, Vol 35
Locke Of Civil Government (Year 1 # 13)
April 18, 1995 Great Books, Vol 11, pp 811 - 848
Nicomachus Introduction to Arithmetic (Year 2 # 8)
April 25, 1995 Great Books, Vol 36
Swift Gulliver's Travels (Year 2 # 15)
May 2, 1995 Great Books, Vol 53, pp 396 - 420, 540 - 635
William James Principles of Psychology (Year 4 # 18)
May 9, 1995
Thoreau Civil Disobedience
May 16, 1995 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 252 - 294
Plato Georgias (Year 8 # 2)
May 23, 1995 Selection from Suzanne Langer's
Langer Philosophy in a New Key
May 30, 1995 Great Books, Vol 27, pp 351-393
Shakespeare Coriolanus (Year 7 #11)
June 6, 1995 Great Books, Vol 53, pp 851-897
William James Principles of Psychology (Year 5# 18)
June 13, 1995 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 295 - 341
Plato The Republic [Books I - III] (Year 1 # 3)
June 20, 1995 Great Books, V 26, pp 597-630
Shakespeare As You Like It (Year 6 # 10)
June 27, 1995 Great Books, Vol 28, pp 197 - 210
Galileo Two New Sciences (Year 4 # 9)
July 11, 1995 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 342 - 401
Plato The Republic [Books IV - VII] (Year 4 # 2)
July 18, 1995 Great Books, Vol 26, pp 568-596
Shakespeare Julius Caesar (Year 7 # 11)
July 25, 1995 The
Way: An Ecological World View
Edward Goldsmith Chapters 1 - 13 (plus Chapters 14 - 37 as interested)
August 1, 1995 Great Books, Vol 50, pp 415-434 (Year 1 # 18)
Marx-Engels Manifesto of the Communist Party
August 8, 1995 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 401 - 441
Plato The Republic [Books VIII - X]
August 15, 1995 A
Theory of Justice
John Rawls Selections
August 22, 1995 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 442 - 485
Plato Timaeus and Critias (Year 10 # 2)
August 29, 1995 Great Books, Vol 42, pp 253-287 (Year 2 # 18)
Kant Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals
September 5, 1995 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 486 - 510
Plato Parmenides
September 12, 1995 Organizational Meeting and Introductory Reading
Sappho Selected Poems
September 19, 1995 Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day
Nikki Giovanni Selected Poems
September 26, 1995 John Dewey
Dewey Habits
and Will
(Questions for discussion are in the Great Books Discussion Series 3.)
October 3, 1995 Great Books, Vol 31, pp 1 - 40
Descartes Rules for the Direction of the Mind (Year 9 # 9)
October 10, 1995 Great Books, Vol 43
Mill On Liberty (Year 2 # 18)
October 17, 1995 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 512 - 550
Plato Theaetetus (Year 4 # 3)
October 24, 1995 Woman & Fiction, Short Stories by and about Women, ed. Susan Cahill. pp 195-229.
Doris Lessing "To Room Nineteen"
October 31, 1995 Selected Influential Speeches (Pericles, Lincoln, ...)
November 7, 1995 Great Books, Vol 27
Shakespeare Hamlet (Year 1 # 12)
November 14, 1995 Great Books, Vol 46, pp 153 - 206
Hegel Philosophy of History (Year 6 # 17)
November 21, 1995
Bible The Gospel of Mark
November 28, 1995 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 551 - 608
Plato Sophist and Statesman (Year 9 # 1) & (Year 3 # 4
December 5, 1995 Great Books, Vol 6
Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War (Year 3# 3)
December 12, 1995 Great Books, Vol 12, pp 1 - 61
Lucretius On the Nature of Things [Books I-IV] (Year 2 # 9)
December 19, 1995 Tao Te Ching
Loa-Tzu
January 2, 1996
Maya Angelou Selected Poems
January 9, 1996 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 609 - 652
Plato Philebus and Laws I (Year 7 # 3)
January 10, 1996
Mario Vargas Ilosa Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
January 16, 1996
Clausewitz What is War?
January 23, 1996 Great Books, Vol 40, pp 179 - 234 (Year 1 # 15)
Gibbon Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire [Ch 15-16]
(Questions for discussion are in the Great Books Discussion Series 4.)
January 30, 1996
Chekhov Uncle Vanya
February 6, 1996 Great Books, Vol 8, pp 25-31
Aristotle On Interpretation [Ch 1-10] (Year 3 # 5)
February 13, 1996
Maimonides On
Evil
February 14, 1996
Juan Rolfo Pedro Paramo
February 20, 1996 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 653 - 697
Plato Laws II - V
February 27, 1996 Great Books, Vol 4
Homer The Iliad (Year 2 # 1)
March 5, 1996 Selected Essays
Ralph Waldo Emerson Self-Reliance, Compensation, The Over-Soul
March 12, 1996 Great Books, Vol 38 “Spirit of Laws” Books 1, 3, and 8
Montesquieu Principles of Government (Year 9 # 13)
March 19, 1996 Great Books, Vol 22, pp 159-232, 256-295, 372-382
Chaucer Canterbury Tales (Year 10 # 8)
March 26, 1996 Great Books, Vol 22
Chaucer Canterbury Tales (Year 10 # 8)
April 2, 1996 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 697 - 757
Plato Laws VI - IX
April 9, 1996 Great Books, Vol 5
Aeschylus Agamemnon (Year 2 # 2)
April 16, 1996 Great Books, Vol 33, pp 181-4,186-9,191-2,195-200, 203, 205-10, 212-18,
Pascal pp 222-5, 227, 229-32, 237-51, 255, 259, 264-75, 277-87, 290-1, 296-302,
pp 318, 321-322, 326-327 Pensees (Year 2 # 13)
April 23, 1996
Henry James The Beast in the Jungle
April 30, 1996 Great Books, Vol 10, pp xiii-26, 44-63, 144, 154-160
Hippocrates Oath, Ancient Medicine,Airs Waters and Places, Epidemics, Law, Sacred Disease (Year 5 # 4)
May 7, 1996 Great Books, Vol 23
Machiavelli The Prince (Year 1 # 9)
May 14, 1996 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 757 - 814 (Year 6 # 3)
Plato Laws X - XII and The Seventh Letter
May 21, 1996
Tolstoy The Death of Ivan Ilych
May 28, 1996 Great Books, Vol 43, pp 1-3, 11-20, 29-53, 62-66, 103-5, 153-6, 162-5, 205-16
Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Federalist (Year 1 # 16)
June 4, 1996 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 26-37
Plato Laches
June 11, 1996 Great Books, Vol 26, pp 352-375
Shakespeare
A
Midsummer Night’s Dream
June 18, 1996 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 252-294
Plato Gorgias (Year 8 # 2)
June 25, 1996 Great Books, Vol 27, pp 205-243
Shakespeare Othello (Year 8 # 7)
July 2, 1996 Great Books, Vol 9, pp 339-348, 426-436
Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics, Books I and X. (Year 1 # 4)
July 9, 1996 Great Books, Vol 26, pp 406-433
Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice
July 16, 1996 Great Books, Vol 9, pp 348-366 (Year 2 # 7)
Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics, Book II; Book III, Ch. 1-12.
July 23, 1996 Great Books, Vol 17, pp 1 - 34
Plotinus First Ennead (Year 7 # 7)
July 30, 1996 Great Books, Vol 12, pp 105-138
Epictetus The Discourses, Book I. (Year 7 # 6)
August 6, 1996 Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find” &
O’Connor “Everything That Rises Must Converge”
August 13, 1996 Great Books, Vol 19, pp 609-643 Part 1-II, QQ. 1-5
Aquinas Summa Theologica, "Treatise on the Last End" (Year 7 # 8)
August 20, 1996 Doris Lessing’s “The Day Stalin Died”
Lessing
August 27, 1996 Great Books, Vol 23, pp 61-65, 66-71, 71-79, 84-96
Hobbes Leviathan, Part I, Ch. 6, 8, 10-11, 13-15. (Year 2 # 11)
September 3, 1996 Philosophy is Everybody’s Business, Vol II #3, Spring 1996
Adler Mortimer Adler on Love
September 10, 1996 Organizational Meeting and Introductory Reading
Woman & Fiction, Short Stories by and about Women, ed. Susan Cahill.
Flannery O’Connor “Revelation” (and excerpts from her letters: “Habit of Being”).
September 17, 1996 Ntozake Shange’s
Shange For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf
September 24, 1996
Schopenhauer The
Indestructibility of Our Inner Nature
(Questions for discussion are in the Great Books Discussion Series 4.)
October 1, 1996 Great Books, Vol 25, pp. 28-36, 89-98, 99-100, (Year 1 # 11)
Montaigne 115-125,162-167, 200-208, 300-307, 340-343, 344-347, 388-395.
Essays: "To study philosophy," "Moderation," "Cannibals,"
"To avoid
pleasures," "Relish of
good and evil," "Drunkenness,"
"Cruelty,"
"Glory," “Virtue,” "Anger," "Repentance."
October 8, 1996 Great Books, Vol 5
Euripides Medea (Year 4 # 1)
October 15, 1996 Great Books, Vol 31, pp 451-463 (Year 7 # 13)
Spinoza Ethics, Part V.
October 29, 1996 Great Books, Vol 35, pp 450 - 509 (Year 4 # 14)
Hume An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
October 22, 1996
Weber The Spirit of Capitalism
November 5, 1996
Moliere The Misanthrope
November 12, 1996 Great Books, Vol 40, CH 1->5 & 28, pp 1 - 51, pp 630 - 634
Gibbon The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Year 6# 15)
November 19, 1996 Great Books, Vol 40, CH XV & XVI, pp 179-234
Gibbon The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Year 1# 15)
(Questions for discussion are in Vol 1 of the Great Ideas Program.)
November 26, 1996 Great Books, Vol 35, pp. 87-92, 103-112,
Locke 176-178, 188-189, 228-233, 303-304, 317-319
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding,
"Epistle to the Reader"; Book I, Ch. 2; Book II, Ch. 20, Ch. 21, § 42-44,
Ch. 28; Book III, Ch. 11, § 16-17; Book IV, Ch. 3, § 18-20.
December 3, 1996 Bible - The Book of Job (Year 7# 1)
December 10, 1996 Great Books, Vol 42, pp 251-287 (Year
2 # 17)
Kant Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
December 17, 1996 Selection from the Koran: Surah 4, 18, 25, and 36.
January 7, 1997 Doris Lessing’s “The Temptation of Jack Orkney”
Lessing
January 14, 1997 Great Books, Vol 42, pp 337-355 (Year 7 # 16)
Kant The Critique of Practical Reason, Part I, Book II.
January 21, 1997 Great Books, Vol 43, pp 445 - 475
Mill Utilitarianism (Chapters 2 and 4) (Year 7# 18)
January 28, 1997 Great Books, Vol 46, pp 55-63, 133-135 (Year 9 # 16)
Hegel Philosophy of Right, "The Family," & Additions101-115.
February 4, 1997 George Bernard Shaw
Shaw Caesar
and Cleopatra
February 11, 1997 Great Books, Vol 49, pp 304-330 (Year 10 # 15)
Darwin The Descent of Man, Part I, Ch. 4-5.
February 18, 1997 Great Books, Vol 18
St. Augustine The City of God (Book 14)
February 25, 1997 Great Books, Vol 32, pp 93 - 216 (Books I -> VI)(Year 3 # 12)
Milton Paradise Lost
March 4, 1997 Great Books, Vol 7
Plato Symposium (Year 7 # 2)
March 11, 1997 Great Books, Vol 32, pp 217 - 333 (Books VII -> XII)
Milton Paradise Lost (Year 3 # 12)
March 18, 1997 Isak Dinesen’s “Sorrow-Acre” in Winter's Tales
Dinesen
March 25, 1997 Isak Dinesen’s “Echoes” in Last Tales and
Dinesen "The Blue Jar" in Sudden Fiction International (ed. R. Shapard)
April 1, 1997 Great Books, Vol 25, pp 516 - 543
Montaigne Essays: "Of Experience"
April 8, 1997 Great Books, Vol 25, pp 42-51,80-82, 406-434 (Year 1 # 11)
Montaigne Essays: “Custom,” “Foolishness,” “Upon some verses of Virgil.”
April 15, 1997
Diderot Rameau’s Nephew
April 22, 1997 Toni Cade Bambara’s
Cade Bambara “A Girl’s Story,” & “The Sea Birds Are Still Alive”
April 29, 1997 Great Books, Vol 43 (Year 1 # 16)
Hamilton,Jay,Madison The Federalist Papers (1, 2, 10, 15, 51, 69, 70)
May 6, 1997 Great
Books, Vol 5, pp 225 - 236, 270 - 281, 340 - 352 (Year 4 # 1)
Euripides Hippolytus, Trojan Women, The Bacchantes
May 13, 1997 Great Books, Vol 27
Shakespeare The Tempest
May 20, 1997 Bible
- Isaiah, Amos (Year 7# 1)
May 27, 1997
Gogol The Overcoat
June 3, 1997 Cynthia Ozick's "The Shawl" and
Ozick & Sachs selected poems from Nelly Sachs' "O The Chimneys"
June 10, 1997 Great Books, Vol 8, pp. 499-511, 522-532, 547-548, 587-590.
Aristotle Metaphysics (Year 4 # 5)
June 17, 1997 Great Books, Vol 26, pp 285-319.
Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet
June 24, 1997 Great Books, Vol. 19, pp. 94-104. (Year 4 # 7)
Aquinas "Treatise on God," Part I, QQ. XVI-XVII.
July 1, 1997 Great Treasury of Western Thought
Selection from "Philosophy and Philosophers"
July 8, 1997 Great Books, Vol. 25, pp. 208-294. (Year 4 # 8)
Montaigne The Essays, "Apology for Raimond de Sebonde."
July 15, 1997 Great Books, Vol 31, pp. 41-67. (Year 4 # 11)
Descartes Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason
July 22, 1997 Nadine Gordimer's July's People (For background, see:
Gordimer http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1991/ )
July 29, 1997 Great Books, Vol 52, pp. 122-137, 146-170. (Year 3 # 17)
Dostoevsky "Grand Inquisitor"& "Russian Monk" from Brothers Karamazov
August 5, 1997 Great Books, Vol 31, pp. 355-372. (Year 6 # 11)
Spinoza Ethics, Part I
August 12, 1997 Katherine Mansfield's "The Garden Party" and
Mansfield selections from her Journal
August 19, 1997 Great Books, Vol Vol. 35, pp. 307-395. (Year 6 # 14)
Locke An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book IV
August 26, 1997 Journal for the Center for the Study of the Great Ideas
Adler "Multiculturalism"
September 2, 1997 Great Books, Vol 35, pp. 403-444. (Year 5 # 14)
Berkeley The Principles of Human Knowledge
September 9, 1997 Organizational Meeting and Introductory Reading
Jackson Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery"
September 16, 1997 Great Books, Vol 52, pp 348-401 (The complete novel is Year 3 # 17)
Dostoevsky "A Judicial Error," Book XII in The Brothers Karamazov
September 23, 1997 Ecclesiastes
Bible Ch
1-6; 9:1-12; 11; 12:1-8
(Questions for discussion are in the Great Books Discussion Series 5.)
September 30, 1997 Great Books, Vol 35, pp 450-487, 488-509 (Year 4 # 14)
Hume An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Sections I - IX, X - XII)
October 7, 1997 Great Books, Vol 5 (Year 2 # 3)
Sophocles Oedipus the King
October 14, 1997
Erdrich Louise Erdrich's "American Horse"
October 21, 1997 Great Books, Vol 42, pp 256-270 (Year 2 # 17)
Kant First Principles of Morals
October 28, 1997 Great Books, Vol 42, pp 1-33 (Year 4 # 15)
Kant Critique of Pure Reason
November 4, 1997
Freud On Dreams
November 11, 1997 Ludwig Wittgenstein's Vermischte Bemerkungen,
Wittgenstein translated by Peter Winch as Culture and Value
November 18, 1997 http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/stories/kafka-E.htm
Kafka Metamorphosis
November 25, 1997 "Modern Moral Philosophy" and
"The Question of Linguistic Idealism" in
Anscombe The Collected Philosophical Papers of G E M Anscombe
December 2, 1997 Great Books, Vol 47, pp 1-114 (Year 8 # 17)
Goethe Faust, Part 1
December 9, 1997 Great Books, Vol 47, pp 115-294 (Year 10 # 14)
Goethe Faust, Part 2
December 16, 1997 Gospel According to Saint Matthew, and
New Testament The Acts of the Apostles (Year 1 # 7)
January 6, 1998 Mary Lavin's "Happiness"
Lavin
January 13, 1998 Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's "The Englishwoman"
Jhabvala
January 20, 1998 "A Simple Heart"
Flaubert from French Stories and Tales
January 27, 1998 Great Books, Vol 13, pp 103-235 (Year 5 # 6)
Virgil The Aeneid Books I - VI
February 3, 1998 Of Personal Identity
Hume from
"Of the Understanding" in A Treatise of Human Nature
February 10, 1998 Great Books, Vol 13, pp 236-379 (Year 5 # 6)
Virgil The Aeneid Books VII - XII
February 17, 1998 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Nietzsche Prologue and First Part
February 24, 1998 "The Flies" in No Exit and Three Other Plays
Sartre Jean-Paul Sartre's “The Flies"
March 3, 1998 Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex
Beauvoir Introduction and Chapter 9.
March 10, 1998 "The Choice To Be Ethical," "Sartre's Choice," and "The Existentialist Choice"
Barnes from Hazel Barnes' An Existentialist Ethics
March 17, 1998 Great Books, Vol 21, pp 1-52 (Year 5 # 10)
Dante The Inferno in The Divine Comedy
March 24, 1998 Great
Books, Vol 49, pp 32-64, 152-153 (Intro
-> Ch 6 & Ch 15 is
Year 5 # 16)
Darwin The Origin of Species, Ch. 3-4, and a selection from Ch.10
March 31, 1998
Burke Reflections on the Revolution in France
April 7, 1998 Selected poems from Wislawa Szymborska's
Szymborska view with a grain of sand
April 14, 1998 The Education of Henry Adams
Adams
April 21, 1998 Great Books, Vol 5, pp 542-563, 583-599 (Year 1 # 2)
Aristophanes The Birds and Lysistrata
April 28, 1998 Great Books, Vol 27, pp 244-283 (Year 8 # 7)
Shakespeare King Lear
May 5, 1998 Great Books, Vol 5, pp 327-339,
394-410, 156 -169 (Year 10 # 1)
Euripides & Sophocles Euripides: Electra and Orestes, Sophocles: Electra
May 12, 1998 Great Books, Vol 9, pp 684-689 (pp 681 - 699 is Year 2 # 6)
Aristotle On Tragedy
May 19, 1998 Christa
Wolf's Cassandra
Wolf
May 26, 1998 Great Books, Vol 7 (Books I & II are Year 1 # 3)
Plato Selection from Books II, III and IV of The Republic
June 2, 1998†◊ Isaac Bashevis Singer - The Spinoza of Market Street
Singer
June 9, 1998†◊ Soren Kierkegaard - Either/Or
Kierkegaard
June 16, 1998 Great Books, Vol 26, pp 320-351 (Year 10 # 9)
Shakespeare The Tragedy of King Richard the Second
June 23, 1998†◊ Joseph
Skvorecky - Emoke
Skvorecky
June 30, 1998†◊ Flora Annie Steel - Tom-Tit-Tot and Caporushes
Steel
July 7, 1998†◊ Yukio Mishima - Patriotism
Mishima
July 14, 1998 Great Treasury of Western Thought Selection from "Love"
July 21, 1998 Great
Books, Vol 26, pp 254-284
Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost
July 28, 1998 Great Books, Vol 7, pp 149-173 (Year 7 # 2)
Plato Symposium
August 4, 1998†◊ William Shakespeare - Sonnet 116,
Poetry Sylvia Plath - The Applicant
Gregory Corso - Marriage,
and
Gwendolyn Brooks - To Be in Love
August 11, 1998†◊ Great Books, Vol 60 (of the 1990 edition)
Woolf First half of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse
August 18, 1998†◊ Second half of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse
August 25, 1998†◊ First half of
Nabokov Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita
September 1, 1998†◊ Second
half of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita
†◊ reading from Love and Marriage Great Books Reading and Discussion Program Set.
September 8, 1998 Organizational Meeting and Introductory Reading
Gabriela Mistral Selected poetry from Desolation.
September 15, 1998 Great Books, Vol 4, p v, pp 183-249 (Year 6 # 2)
Homer Homer's Odyssey Books I - XI
September 22, 1998◊◊ The Continuing Silence of a Poet
A. B. Yehoshua
September 29, 1998 Great Books, Vol 4, pp 250-322 (Year 6 # 2)
Homer Homer's Odyssey Books XII - XXIV
October 6, 1998◊◊ Gwen and Somewhere, Belgium
Jamaica Kincaid
October 12, 1998
Jhabvala Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Heat and Dust
October 13, 1998 Great Books, Vol 5, pp 52-91 (Year 2 # 2)
Aeschylus Aeschylus' Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides
October 20, 1998 Great
Books, Vol 2, pp 486-514
The Idea of Family from the Syntopicon
October 27, 1998 Gateway to the Great Books, Vol 3, pp 153-193
Eliot George Eliot's "The Lifted Veil"
November 3, 1998 First half of
Phyllis Rose Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages
November 9, 1998 Naguib Mahfouz's Palace Walk
Mahfouz
November 10, 1998 First half of
Camus Albert Camus' The Plague
November 17, 1998 Second half of
Phyllis Rose Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages
November 24, 1998 Second half of
Camus Albert
Camus' The Plague
December 1, 1998 Bhagavad-Gita
(translated by Edwin Arnold)
December 8, 1998 pp 1 - 185 (Vintage Classic, trans & abridged by E. Seidensticker)
Shikibu Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji Chapters 1 to 6
December 15, 1998 pp 186 - 360
Shikibu Lady Murasaki's The Tale of Genji Chapters 7 to 12
January 5, 1999 Great Books, Vol 55 (of the 1990 edition), pp 237-294
Bertrand Russell The Problems of Philosophy
http://www.ditext.com/russell/russell.html
January 7, 1999 Great Books, Vol 2
The Idea of Good and Evil from the Syntopicon
January 12, 1999 Great Books , Vol 29, pp v-201 (Year 5 # 12)
Cervantes Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote First Part
January 19, 1999 Great Books, Vol 5
Euripides Iphigeneia at Aulis
January 21, 1999 Great Treasury of Western Thought
Selection from "Good and Evil"
January 26, 1999 Great Books , Vol 29, pp 203-429 (Year 10 # 11)
Cervantes Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote Second Part
February 2, 1999 Great Books, Vol 18, pp 61-125
St. Augustine Confessions Books IX - XIII
February 4, 1999 Great Books, Vol 2
The Idea of Justice from the Syntopicon
February 9, 1999 Great Books, Vol 32, pp 337-378 (Year 6 # 12)
Milton John Milton's Samson Agonistes
February 16, 1999◊◊
Andrea Lee New African and
William Faulkner Barn Burning
February 18, 1999 Great Treasury of Western Thought
Selection from "Justice"
February 23, 1999 Great Books, Vol 37, pp v-204 (Year 9 # 12)
Fielding Henry Fielding's Tom Jones Books I - IX
March 2, 1999◊◊
Franz Kafka Letter to his Father and The Judgement
March 9, 1999 Great Books, Vol 37, pp 204-405 (Year 9 # 12)
Fielding Henry Fielding's Tom Jones Books X - XVIII
March 16, 1999◊◊ William Butler Yeats -
Poetry Among
School Children and A Prayer for
my Daughter,
Derek Walcott - A Letter from Brooklyn,
Randall Jarrell - The Lost Children, and
Sharon
Olds - Exclusive
March 23, 1999 Great Books, Vol 48, pp 1-209 (Year 4 # 16)
Melville Herman Melville's Moby Dick CH 1-60
April 6, 1999 Great Books, Vol 48, pp 210-420 (Year 4 # 16)
Melville Herman Melville's Moby Dick CH 61-135
April 13, 1999◊◊
Jane Austen Persuasion
April 20, 1999
Deledda Grazia Deledda's The Mother
April 27, 1999
Sandra Cisneros The
House on Mango Street
May 4, 1999 Great Ideas Today, 1967: pp 374 - 425
Schrödinger Erwin Schrödinger's "What Is Life?"
May 10, 1999
Roy Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things
May 11, 1999◊◊ First half of
Heinrich Böll Billiards at Half-Past Nine
May 18, 1999 Great Books, Vol 59 (of the 1990 edition), pp 411-466
Cather Willa Cather’s A Lost Lady
May 25, 1999◊◊ Second half of
Heinrich Böll Billiards
at Half-Past Nine
◊◊ reading from Parent and Child in the Great Books Reading and Discussion Program Set.
June 1, 1999 Great Books, Vol 26, pp 434 - 467 (Year 10 # 9)
Shakespeare William Shakespeare, Henry the Fourth, Part I
June 8, 1999 Khushwant
Singh, Train to Pakistan
Singh (180 pages)
June 14, 1999 Italo Calvino's Marcovaldo or the Seasons in the City
Calvino
June 15, 1999 Great Books, Vol 26, pp 468 - 503 (Year 10 # 9)
Shakespeare William
Shakespeare, Henry the Fourth, Part II
June 22, 1999 Ana Castillo, The Mixquiahuala Letters
Castillo ( 132 pages)
June 29, 1999 Great Treasury of Western Thought Idea of "Revolution"
July 6, 1999 1970
Great Ideas Today A. J.
Toynbee, "Revolutionary
Toynbee, Illich Change," and Ivan Illich, "The Need
for Cultural Revolution"
July 13, 1999 Claire de Duras, Ourika
de Duras (80 pages)
July 20, 1999 Schumacher Small is Beautiful
Schumacher (352 pages)
July 27, 1999 Selection from Isabella Bird's
Bird Six
Months in the Sandwich Islands
August 3, 1999 Selection from Barbara Kingsolver's High Tide in Tuscon
Kingsolver
August 10, 1999 Maxine Hong Kingston "A Song for a Barbarian Reed Pipe"
Kingston from Woman Warriors (40 pages)
August 17, 1999 Frank Waters, The Man Who Killed the Deer
Waters ( 266 pages)
August 24, 1999 Ntozake Shange “oh she gotta head fulla hair”
Shange Terry McMillan "Ma' Dear"
McMillan Ann Petry "The Witness"
Petry (from Gloria Naylor's Children of the Night)
August 31, 1999 Ellyn Bache, Culture Clash (131 pages)
Bache
September 7, 1999 Nietzsche, Beyond
Good and Evil
Nietzsche (Dover Thrift Edition - translated by Helen Zimmern)
[Note: This was a horrible translation. Get one by Walter Kaufmann instead.]
September 14, 1999 Introductory meeting and
Soyinka Selected poetry from Wole Soyinka, Mandela's Earth
September 21, 1999 1998 Great Ideas Today, pp 404 - 434, Margaret Mead -
Mead "Applied Anthropology: The State of the Art"
September 28, 1999 *† Clifford Geertz -
Geertz Deep
Play: Notes on the Balinese
Cockfight
October 5, 1999 Great Books, Vol 35, pp. 1 - 22, 380-388 (Year 8 #11)
Locke "A
Letter Concerning Toleration" and CH
18 and 19
from "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding"
October 12, 1999 Katherine Mansfield -
Mansfield In a German Pension: 13 Stories
October 19, 1999 William James, Varieties of Religious Experience
James (Lectures I to X)
October 26, 1999 William James, Varieties of Religious Experience
James (Lectures XI to end)
November 2, 1999 *† Carlos
Fuentes, The Two Shores
Fuentes
November 9 1999 Gateway to the Great Books, Vol 6, pp 714 - 732
Thoreau "A Plea for Captain John Brown"
November 16, 1999 Olive Gilbert -
Truth The
Narrative of Sojourner Truth
November 23, 1999 *† W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
Du Bois
November 30, 1999 Great Books V19, pp 3 - 10; V 20, pp 380 - 401
Aquinas Summa Theologica (Part I, Q1; Part II-II, QQ 1-3)
December 7, 1999 Confucius, The Analects
Confucius (Dover Thrift Edition - W. Soothill translator)
December 14, 1999 Christina Rosetti, Goblin Market and Other Poems
Rosetti (Dover Thrift Edition)
December 21, 1999 The Mabinogion
(Dover Thrift Edition - translated by Lady Charlotte Guest)
January 4, 2000 *† Doris Lessing, The
Antheap
Lessing
January 11, 2000 James Joyce, Ulysses (First half)
Joyce
January 18, 2000 James Joyce, Ulysses (Second half)
January 25, 2000 Mary Wollstonecraft -
Wollstonecraft A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
February 1, 2000 Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland
Gilman (Dover Thrift Edition)
February 8, 2000 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Montagu Selections
from her Letters from the Levant
February 15, 2000 *† Jonathan Swift
Swift A
Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms
February 18, 2000 Zora N. Hurston, Their
Eyes Were Watching God
February 22, 2000 1988 Great Ideas Today pp 406 - 467
Wharton Edith Wharton, "Ethan Frome"
February 29, 2000 Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
Wharton (Dover Thrift Edition)
March 7, 2000 Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory
Greene
March 14, 2000 *† Derek Walcott, Poetry
Walcott "The Schooner Flight" and "A Far Cry from Africa"
March 21, 2000 Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë -
Brontë Best Poems of the Bronte Sisters
March 28, 2000 Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
Browning Sonnets from the Portuguese
(Dover Thrift Edition)
April 4, 2000 Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
April 11, 2000 *† Jean
Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
April 18, 2000 Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy
Kincaid
April 25, 2000 Selection
from V. S. Naipaul, Miguel Street
May 2, 2000 Vikram Seth, The Golden Gate: a Novel in Verse
Seth (307 pages (588 sonnets))
May 9, 2000 Walt Whitman, Selected Poems
Whitman (Dover Thrift Edition)
May 16, 2000 *† First half of E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
May 23, 2000 *† Second half of E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
May 30, 2000 Amitav Ghosh, The Shadow Lines
Ghosh
*† = Reading from Great Books Foundation's Clashes
of Culture.
June 6, 2000 Clarice Lispector, Hour of the Star (96 pages)
Lispector
June 13, 2000†* Leo Tolstoy, "After the Ball"
Tolstoy
June 20, 2000 Great Books, Vol 27, pp 1 - 28 (Year 6 # 10)
Shakespeare William
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
June 27, 2000†* Friedrich Nietzsche, "On Evil, Guilt, and Power"
Nietzsche
July 11, 2000 Graham
Greene, Heart of the Matter (242 pages)
Greene
July 18, 2000†* Robert Musil, "Moosbrugger"
Musil
July 25, 2000 Anita Desai, Clear Light of Day (182 pages)
Desai
August 1, 2000†* Charles Johnson, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice"
Johnson
August 8, 2000 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (166 pages)
Shelley Frankenstein (Dover Thrift Edition)
August 15, 2000†* Fyodor Dostoevsky, "Stavrogin's Confession"
Dostoevsky
August 22, 2000 Poetry: Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
Coleridge†* "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
Anne Sexton,
Sexton "The Interrogation of the Man of Many Hearts"
Eavan Boland,
Boland "The Famine Road," "Child of Our Time,"
"The Hanging Judge"
August 29, 2000†* Marguerite Yourcenar, Coup de Grace (151 pages)
Yourcenar
September 5, 2000 R.K. Narayan (250 pages)
Narayan The
Man-Eater of Malgudi
September 12, 2000 Introductory meeting and Edna St. Vincent Millay,
Millay Renascence
and Other Poems (Dover Thrift 66
pages)
September 19, 2000 The Writing of Fiction (128 pages)
Wharton and "The Eyes"† and "Pomegranate Seed"†
from The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
September 26, 2000 Virginia Woolf, Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories
Woolf (Dover Thrift Edition - 64 pages)
October 3, 2000†* John Edgar Wideman (199p)
Wideman Philadelphia Fire
†* readings are from The Evil and the Guilty Great Books Reading and Discussion Program.
October 10, 2000 °† Marcel Proust, "Overture"
Proust Remembrance of Things Past, Vol I
October 17, 2000 Mikhail Bulgakov, pp 1-180
Bulgakov The Master and Margarita
October 24, 2000 Mikhail Bulgakov, pp 181-367
Bulgakov The Master and Margarita
October 31, 2000 Derek Walcott, (325 pages)
Walcott Omeros
November 7, 2000 °† Sigmund Freud, "The Rat Man"
Freud
November 14, 2000 Great Books Vol 54, pp 767 - 802
Freud Civilization and Its Discontents
November 21, 2000 °† Gustav Herling "The Island"
Herling
November 28, 2000 Great Books Vol 14, pp. 648-691
Plutarch The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans.
"Agis," "Cleomenes," "Tiberius Gracchus," "Caius Gracchus"
December 5, 2000 The Epic of Gilgamesh (115 pages)
December 11, 2000 J Coetzee, Disgrace
Coetzee
December 12, 2000 Jorge Luis Borges pp 3 -58 (first six stories)
Borges Selection from Labyrinths
December 19, 2000 Iris Murdoch, "On God and Good" from
Murdoch Sovereignty of Good (36 pages)
January 2, 2001 °† David Grossman, "Momik"
Grossman
January 9, 2001 Doris Lessing, The Fifth Child (133 pages)
Lessing
January 16, 2001 °† Annie Dillard, An American Childhood
Dillard
January 23, 2001 Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali
Tagore (Dover Thrift edition, 128 pages)
January 30, 2001 Poetry:
Wordsworth °† William Wordsworth "Intimations of Immortality"
Rich °† Adrienne Rich, "Diving into the Wreck"
Lowell °† Robert Lowell, "For the Union Dead"
Walker Alice Walker, "Remember?", & "Poem at Thirty-Nine"
Dobyns Stephen Dobyns, "Unexpected Holiday", & "Dance Dance"
Glück Louise Glück, "Arboretum", & "Summer Night"
Atwood Margaret Atwood, "A Woman's Issue"
Dent Tory Dent, "What Calendars Have Become"
February 6, 2001 Great Books Vol 5, pp 170 - 195
Sophocles "Trachiniae" and "Philoctetes"
February 13, 2001 Great Books Vol 5, pp 237 - 247, pp 365 - 377
Euripides "Alcestis" and "Heracles Mad"
February 20, 2001 °† Toni Morrison, pp 1-170
Morrison Song of Solomon
February 27, 2000 °† Toni Morrison, pp 171-337
Morrison Song of Solomon
March 6, 2001 Muriel Spark, (150 pages)
Spark The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
March 13, 2001 Mia Yun, House of the Winds (250 pages)
Yun
March 20, 2001 °† Gabriel Garcia Marquez, pp 1-190
Marquez One
Hundred Years of Solitude
March 27, 2001 °† Gabriel Garcia Marquez, pp 191-383
Marquez One
Hundred Years of Solitude
April 3, 2001 Penelope Fitzgerald, Offshore (141 pages)
Fitzgerald
April 10, 2001 Willa Cather, O Pioneers
Cather (Dover
Thrift Edition - 128 pages)
April 17, 2001 Willa Cather, Death Comes to the Archbishop
Cather (297 pages)
April 24, 2001 Bernard
Malamud, God's Grace (221 pages)
Malamud
May 1, 2001 Great Books Vol 23, pp 3 - 37
Machiavelli The Prince
More Thomas More, Utopia (Dover Thrift 85 pages)
May 8, 2001 Amy Tan, Joy Luck Club (288 pages)
Tan
May 15, 2001 Great Books Vol 38, pp 387-439
Rousseau The Social Contract
May 22, 2001 Leo Tolstoy, (Dover Thrift Edition - 144 pages)
Tolstoy Kreutzer
Sonata and Other Short Stories
May 29, 2001 Great Books Vol 13, pp. 3 -34 (Year 10 # 5)
Virgil The Eclogues
°† Readings are from Living with the Past (questions only, for Morrison and Marquez) in the Great Books Reading and Discussion Program.
June 5, 2001 Shakespeare, “Two Gentlemen of Verona”
June 12, 2001 Ivan Turgenev “A Month in the Country”
Turgenev (135 pages)
June 19, 2001 Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace (first third of book) (Year 5 # 17)
June 26, 2001 Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace (second third of book)
July 10, 2001 Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace (rest of book) (Year 6 # 18)
Reference: http://www.ccel.org/t/tolstoy/confession/confession.html
Leo Tolstoy's Confession - Tolstoy's account of his spiritual
crisis in 1879 at age 51. This
crisis occurred after writing War
and Peace, before writing the three short stories Boulder Great Books read
in May ("The Death of Ivan Illych", "The Kruetzer Sonata",
and "How Much Land Does a Man Need?").
http://www.pushkins-poems.com/panpete.htm Pictures of St. Petersburg from the 19th century - The 1805 view shows St. Petersburg as it would have been at the start of War and Peace.
July 17, 2001 Short Stories: Anton Chekhov,
Chekhov “Ward 6”, “The Betrothed”, "Duschechka"
Bunin Ivan Bunin, "Sunstroke"
July 24, 2001 Margaret Atwood, Handmaid’s Tale (311 pages)
July 31, 2001 Lermontov, A Hero for our Time
Lermentov (186 pages - Nabokov translation)
August 7, 2001 Yevgeny Zamyatin, We (256 pages)
Zamyatin
August 14, 2001 Selected Poetry - Vladimir Mayakovski & Anna Akhmatova
Mayakovski, Akhmatova
August 21, 2001 Andrei Bely - Petersburg (356 pages)
Bely
Bergholtz, Akhmadulina
September 11, 2001 Anita Brookner - Hotel du Lac
Brookner (184 pages)
September 18, 2001 Toni Morrison Paradise (318 pages)
Reference: http://www.randomhouse.com/features/paradise/paradise/rgg.html
Random House guide to reading Paradise - includes questions for discussion.
September 25, 2001 †† Aristotle,
“The Highest Good” Nicomachean Ethics -
Book 1, Chapters 1-3, 5, 7-11, 13; and Book 2, Chapter 7.
October 9, 2001 Jhumpa Lahiri (198 pages) - Interpreter of Maladies:
Lahiri Stories of Bengal, Boston and Beyond
October 16, 2001 William Faulkner As I Lay Dying (267 pages)
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0-679-73225-X&view=rg
Random House reading guide - includes questions for discussion.
Hesse (Dover Thrift Edition - 81 pages)
October 30, 2001 Vikram Chandra Love and Longing in Bombay (272 pages)
November 6, 2001 †† Gita Mehta, A River Sutra
November 13, 2001 Kamala Markandaya Nectar in a Sieve
Markandaya (190 pages)
http://www.glencoe.com/sec/literature/litlibrary/pdf/nectar_in_a_sieve.pdf Glencoe Literature Library study guide - aimed at English teachers (pdf).
Reference: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/14016 "The Great Narayan" - This
February 22, 2001 article in "The New York Review" by Pankaj
Mishra discusses many of
Narayan's books.
November 27, 2001 Great Books Vol 14: Plutarch pp 691 - 725, 262 - 292
Plutarch Demosthenes, Cicero, Aristedes, Marcus Cato
December 11, 2001 Sigrid Undset Kristin Lavransdatter: The Bridal Wreath
Undset (vol 1 of a trilogy, 283 pages)
December 18, 2001 Margaret Atwood Surfacing (224 pages)
January 8, 2002 †† John Berger, “The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol”
January 15, 2002 Rudolfo A. Anaya, Bless Me, Ultima
Anaya (262 pages)
January 22, 2002 †† Mary Lavin, “Happiness” and Alice Munro, "Simon's Luck"
Lavin, Munro and "Friend of my Youth" from Selected Stories
January 29, 2002 Great Books Vol 18: Augustine pp 397 - 524
Augustine City of God (Books XV - XIX) (Year 6 # 7)
Pascal and Vol 33: Pascal pp 62 - 71 Provincial Letter IX
February 12, 2002 Iris Murdoch, Under the Net (286 pages)
February 19, 2002 Iris Murdoch The Sea, the Sea (first half - pages 1 to 262)
February 26, 2002 Iris Murdoch The Sea, the Sea (2nd half - pages 262 to 502)
http://www.penguinputnam.com/static/rguides/us/sea_the_sea.html Penguin Reading Guide - contains
discussion questions, an introduction to the book, and a brief biography of
Iris Murdoch.
<a href="http://www.tnr.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20011231&s=nussbaum123101">"When She Was Good"</a>, by Martha C. Nussbaum, an article on Iris Murdoch in the January 2002 issue of The New Republic.
Huong Ho Xuan Huong, Spring Essence
March 12, 2002 A.S. Byatt “Art Works” from The Matisse Stories
Byatt
March 26, 2002 †† George Eliot, pp 381-776
Eliot Middlemarch
Note: There is a chapter in Phyllis Rose's Parallel Lives: Five
Victorian Marriages, a book we discussed in the group a few years back,
about Mary Ann Evans and George Henry Lewes.
April 2, 2002 Great Books Vol 44: Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson
Boswell pp 83b-c, 107a, 118a, 144d-145a, 164d, 299b-d, 354-364,
373-384,
391-407, 423c-d, 498-515, 540b-542a, 584-587 (Year10
# 13)
April 16, 2002 Natsume Soseki, Kokoro (248 pages)
April 23, 2002 Dorothy West, The Wedding
http://www.randomhouse.com/resources/bookgroup/wedding_bgc.html Random House Readers Companion - questions and background on the author and book.
April 30, 2002 Great Books Vol. 54: Freud, Psycho-Analysis
Freud pp. 1-20, 38-59, 526-539, 569-585, 818-840. (Year 3 # 18)
May 7, 2002 Eudora Welty, The Optimist's Daughter
Welty (180 pages)
May 14, 2002 Feynman Lectures in Physics, “Symmetry in Physical Law”
Feynman and
“The Principle of Least Action”
Notes:
The
February 1989 issue of "Physics Today" was devoted to Richard
Feynman.
http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~cwp/articles/noether.asg/noether.html Byers, Nina "E. Noether's Discovery of the Deep Connection Between
Symmetries and Conservation Laws"
May 17, 2002 V.S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River
Naipaul
Shakespeare
May 28, 2002 Lewis Thomas, Lives of a Cell (153 pages)
Thomas
†† readings are from Great Books Foundations’ Happiness and Discontent
June 4, 2002 Great Books Vol. 30, pp. 105-114, 137-153
Bacon Francis Bacon "Novum Organum" (Year 4 # 10)
June 11, 2002 Great Books Vol. 27, pp 284 - 310 (Year 3 # 11)
June 18, 2002 Subrahmanyan
Chandrasekhar Truth and Beauty:
Chandrasekhar Aesthetics and Motivations in Science (170 pages)
June 25, 2002 "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics
Wigner in the Natural Sciences" Eugene Wigner (17 pages),
Weyl and the first third of Weyl’s Symmetry (pp 1 - 38)
July 2, 2002 Herman Weyl Symmetry (pp 41 - 156)
Weyl (156 pages)
July 9, 2002 Flatland
: A Romance of Many Dimensions
July 16, 2002 Barbara McClintock’s Nobel lecture (20 pages)
McClintock http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1983/mcclintock-lecture.html
Carson (244 pages)
July 30, 2002 Selection from Naomi Oreskes (ed.) Plate Tectonics:
August 6, 2002 Jane Goodall In the Shadow of Man
Goodall (304 pages)
August 13, 2002 Articles on Entropy in vol I of The World of Physics
Clausius Rudolf Clausius "The Second Law of Thermodynamics"
Bridgman P W Bridgman “Statistical Mechanics and the 2nd Law”
August 27, 2002 Leonard Adleman “Computing with DNA”
Adleman August 1998 Scientific American
September 10, 2002 Chinua Achebe Anthills of the Savannah
Achebe (216 pages)
September 17, 2002 James Baldwin Giovanni's Room
Baldwin (224 pages)
September 24, 2002 ##James Baldwin The Fire Next Time
October 1, 2002 Zona Gale “Miss Lulu Bett”
Gale http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/gale/lulu/lulu.html
October 8, 2002 Maya Angelou All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
Angelou (210 pages)
October 15, 2002 Great Books Vol 6, pp 1-88 (Books I and II)
Herodotus The History of Herodotus (Year2 # 4)
October 22, 2002 Ama Ata Aidoo, Leila Aboulela, Ifeoma Okoye, Anna Dao in
Aidoo, Aboulela Opening
Spaces : An Anthology of Contemporary
Okoye, Dao African Women's Writings ed Yvonne Vera (186 pages)
October 29, 2002 Nella Larsen Passing
Larsen (208 pages)
November 4, 2002 Leila Aboulela The Translator
Aboulela
November 5, 2002 Ama Ata Aidoo (134 pages)
Aidoo Our Sister Killjoy : Or, Reflections from a Black-Eyed Squint
November 12, 2002 Plato "Crito" and "Phaedo" from
Plato Trial and Death of Socrates (Dover Thrift Edition)
November 15, 2002 Michael Ondaatje Anil’s Ghost
Ondaatje
November 19, 2002 ## Plato "Euthyphro" and "Apology" from
November 26, 2002 Great Books Vol 17, pp 252-360 (Year 5 # 8)
Plotinus Plotinus "Sixth Ennead"
December 10, 2002 Buchi Emecheta Joys of Motherhood
Emecheta (224 pages)
December 17, 2002 Great Books Vol 39 Adam Smith Wealth of Nations
Smith Introduction. Book I, Chapters 1 and 8. Book III.
Reference: W.E.B. Du Bois - http://www.bartleby.com/114/3.html "Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others"
January 14, 2003 Octavia Butler Kindred
Butler (264 pages)
January 17, 2003 Peter Hessler River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
January 21, 2003 ## Alice Munro "A Real Life" and
Munro "The Moon in the Orange Street Skating Rink"
January 28, 2003 Elizabeth
Bowen House in Paris
Bowen (245 pages) Ref: Byatt in Passions of the Mind
February 11, 2003 Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway
Woolf (212 pages)
February 18, 2003 ## Anton Chekhov "A Dull Story"
February 25, 2003 Aleksander Pushkin Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse
http://lib.ru/LITRA/PUSHKIN/ENGLISH/onegin_j.txt
March 11, 2003 J. Nozipo Maraire Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter
Maraire (194 pages)
March 25, 2003 ## Jane Austen, pp 224-446
Austen Emma
Nthunya The Autobiography of an African Woman (200 pages)
April 8, 2003 ## Ralph Ellison, pp 1-295 (Chapters 1 to 13)
April 15, 2003 ## Ralph Ellison, pp 296-581
Ellison Invisible Man
Freud (176 pages - Dover Thrift Edition)
April 29, 2003 Toni Morrison Beloved
Morrison (275 pages)
May 6, 2003 Maxine Clair Rattlebone
Clair (213 pages)
May 13, 2003 Rene Maran Batouala
Maran (149 pages)
May 20, 2003 Great Books Vol 50 pp 1- 84. Karl Marx (Year 8 # 16)
Marx Capital Prefaces and Parts I and II
May 27, 2003 Samuel R. Delany Babel-17 (173 pages)
Delany
Reference: http://www.anotherscene.com/outthere/delany1.htm
Earl
Jackson, Jr., web commentary
(1997), "Critical Apparatus: The Theoretical Writings of Samuel R.
Delany" in "Out There: Science Fiction Practice and Theory"
## readings are from Great Books Foundations’ Identity and Self-Respect
June 10, 2003 Great Books Vol. 27, pp 29 - 72
June 17, 2003 Aphra Behn, “The Emperor of the Moon”
Behn (65 pages)
June 24, 2003 Alexander
Pushkin, “Boris Godunov”
Shaw (170 pages)
July 8, 2003 Garcia Lorca, “Blood Wedding”
July 15, 2003 Eugene O’Neill, “The Iceman Cometh”
O’Neill (196 pages)
July 22, 2003 Lorraine Hansberry, “Raisin in the Sun”
Hansberry (151 pages)
August 5, 2003 Wendy Wasserstein, “The Heidi Chronicles”
Wasserstein (95 pages)
August 12, 2003 Yasmina Reza, “Art”
Reza (96 pages)
August 26, 2003 Suzan-Lori Parks, “Topdog/Underdog”
Parks (112 pages)
Tuchman “How we entered WW I” and “If Mao had come to Washington”
Descartes, Spinoza Descartes and Spinoza on Consciousness
Descartes 2nd and 6th Meditations from Meditations on First Philosophy
Nagel and
Thomas Nagel, “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?”
Ref: http://www.philosophy.bham.ac.uk/staff/nagasawa_Thomas.pdf
(where an argument of Aquinas’ is proposed to counter Nagel)
September 23, 2003 Pat Barker Regeneration (252
pages)
September 30, 2003 Susan Hurley
Hurley Essays citing Kant and Wittgenstein on "The Myth of Giving"
October 7, 2003 Penelope Lively Moon Tiger (208 pages)
Lagerlöf The Treasure http://ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext04/thtrs10.txt
Balzac Honoré de Balzac (160 pages)
November 4, 2003 Arthur Lovejoy The Great Chain of Being (Chapters VI - XI)
Ref:
http://sackett.net/Lovejoy.pdf
November 12, 2003 #* Nikolai Gogol “The Overcoat” (42 pages)
Gogol
Graham Selected Poems
December 9, 2003 Great Books Vol 53, pp 146 - 226 (Chapters IX, X)
James William James Principles of Psychology - “The Stream of Thought”
and first half of “The Consciousness of Self”
(12th reading in Vol 9 of the Great Ideas Program)
Condensed
version at http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/James/jimmy11.htm
Hardcastle “Attention versus Consciousness: A Distinction with a Difference”
Ref: http://www.cogsci.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/ptopic?topic=locating-consciousness
December 16, 2003 Great Books, Vol 21, pp 53-105 (Year 6 # 9)
Dante Purgatory in The Divine Comedy
Ref: http://www.penguinputnam.com/static/rguides/us/huge_book_of_hell.html
January 6, 2004 Doris Lessing The Four-Gated City (Parts I and II)
January 13, 2004 Doris Lessing The Four-Gated City (Parts III and IV)
Ref: http://www.harpercollins.com/readers/browseGuides.aspx?type=author&sort=lq
January 20, 2004 Paula Churchland
Churchland “Can Neurobiology Teach us Anything about Consciousness?”
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Py104/church.neuro.html
January 27, 2004 #* Gregor von Rezzori “Troth”
von Rezzori
February 3, 2004 Pearl Buck Pavilion of Women (316 pages)
Ionesco
February 24, 2004 #* Flannery O’Connor “Greenleaf”, “Good Country
O’Connor People” and “Everything That Rises Must Converge”
March 2, 2004 Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina Parts I - IV
Tolstoy (Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky translation)
March 23, 2004 #* Mikhail Bulgakov The Master and Margarita
Bulgakov (367 pages)
March 30, 2004 Great Books Vol 36 pp 183 - 382
Sterne Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy Books I to IV
April 6, 2004 Great Books Vol 36 pp 383 - 556
Sterne Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy Books V to IX
(Year 8 # 12 in the Great Books 10 Year Reading Program)
Kincaid (82 pages)
Ref: http://www.penguinputnam.com/static/rguides/us/autobiography_of_my_mother.html
April 20, 2004 Richard Feynman The Character of Physical Law
Feynman (167 pages)
April 27, 2004 #* Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart
Achebe (192 pages)
May 4, 2004 Gish Jen Typical American (296 pages)
May 11, 2004 Anita Desai Fasting, Feasting
Desai (228 pages)
Ref: http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/readers_guides/desai_fasting_feasting.shtml
Mahoney The
Early Arrival of Dreams: A Year in China
(reference: Peter Hessler River Town: Two Years
on the Yangtze)
Lorenz (227 pages)
#* readings are from Great
Books Foundations’ Order and Chaos
Lindbergh (168 pages)
Further reading: Gift from the Sea (144 pages)
June 15, 2004 Carol Shields - Small Ceremonies
Shields (181
pages)
Further reading: The Stone Diaries (361 pages)
June 22, 2004 Great Books Vol. 26, pp 285 - 319
July 6, 2004 Francis Bacon, “The Essays” (78 pages)
July 13, 2004 Great Books Vol. 27, pp 311 - 350
Shakespeare William Shakespeare, “Antony and Cleopatra”
July 20, 2004 John M. Synge “Playboy of the Western World” (75 pages)
Synge http://www.ireland-information.com/irishliterature.htm
[Also available in a Dover Thrift Edition]
July 27, 2004 Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest
Or http://www.ireland-information.com/irishliterature.htm
August 3, 2004 Elizabeth Bowen - The Last September
Bowen (320
pages)
August 10, 2004 Selected
Poetry: Eavan Boland “That the
Science of Cartography is Limited
McGuckian Medbh
McGuckian “Gatepost” and “Open Road”
August 17, 2004 James Joyce Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
O’Casey (86 pages)
August 31, 2004 Edna O’Brien, House of Splendid Isolation
September 7, 2004