David Denby

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• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Now in paperback--the national bestseller that offers a dramatic and entertaining account of some of the greatest works of literature, a persuasive defense of the magnificence of the Western literary tradition, and a thrilling personal odyssey of one man's return to academia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9780684835334
• ISBN-10: 0684835339
• Artikelnr.: 22448297

Autorenporträt

David Denby has been film critic and staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998; prior to that he was film critic of New York magazine. His reviews and essays have also appeared in The New Republic, The Atlantic, and The New York Review of Books. He lives in New York City.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction
Reading Lists
FIRST SEMESTER
1. Homer I
2. Sappho
Interlude One
3. Plato I
4. Homer II
Interlude Two
5. Plato II
6. Sophocles
7. Aristotle
Interlude Three
8. Aeschylus and Euripides
Interlude Four
9. Virgil
10. The Old Testament
11. The New Testament
12. Augustine
13. Machiavelli
Interlude Five
14. Hobbes and Locke
15. Examination
Winter Break
SECOND SEMESTER
16. Dante
17. Boccaccio
18. Hume and Kant
Interlude Six
19. Montaigne
20. Rousseau
21. Shakespeare
22. Hegel
23. Austen
24. Marx and Mill
25. Nietzsche
Interlude Seven
26. Beauvoir
27. Conrad
28. Woolf
Epilogue
Appendix: Earlier Reading Lists
Selected Bibliography
Index