Roy Matthews, DeWitt Platt

Readings in the Western Humanities, Volume 2

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Volume 2 of Readings in the Western Humanities presents a wide array of primary source readings ranging from the Renaissance to the present day.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McGraw Hill LLC
• Revised
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: August 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 278mm x 217mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 789g
• ISBN-13: 9780072556407
• ISBN-10: 0072556404
• Artikelnr.: 21398822

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Chapter 11 THE EARLY RENAISSANCE: RETURN TO CLASSICAL ROOTS, 1400-1494
GIOVANNI PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA, Selections from On the Dignity of Man
LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI, Selection from On Painting
Book II
Chapter 12 THE HIGH RENAISSANCE AND EARLY MANNERISM, 1494-1564
GASPARA STAMPA, Poems
"3"
"43"
"98"
"104"
"151"
BALDASSARE CASTIGLIONE, Selections from The Book of the Courtier
Book I
Book III
NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI, Selections from The Prince
Chapter XV
Chapter XVI
Chapter XVII
Chapter 13 NORTHERN HUMANISM, NORTHERN RENAISSANCE, RELIGIOUS REFORMATIONS,
AND LATE MANNERISM: 1500-1603
FRANÇOIS RABELAIS, Selection from The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel
Book I
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS, Selection from The Praise of Folly
SIR THOMAS MORE, Selection from Utopia
Book II
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE, Selection from Essays
Book I
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
Act I
Act II
Act III
Act IV
Act V
MARTIN LUTHER, Selections from the Ninety-Five Theses
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES, Selection from Don Quixote
Part I
Chapter 14 THE BAROQUE AGE: GLAMOUR AND GRANDIOSITY: 1600-1715
SISTER JUANA INÉS DE LA CRUZ, Poem and Essay
"In which she condemns the inconsistency of men, who blame women for what
they themselves have caused"
*Repuesta a Sor Filotea (The Reply to Sister Filotea)*
MOLIÈRE, Selection from The Misanthrope
Act I
JOHN MILTON, Selection from Paradise Lost
Book I
APRA BEHN, Selection from Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave: A True History
Chapter 15 THE BAROQUE AGE II: REVOLUTIONS IN SCIENTIFIC AND POLITICAL
THOUGHT: 1600-1715
GALILEO GALILEI, Selections from the Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief
World Systems-Ptolemaic and Copernican
To the Discerning Reader
The First Day
FRANCIS BACON, Selection from Essays
Of Studies
RENÉ DESCARTES, Selections from Discourse on Method
Part II
Part IV
THOMAS HOBBES, Selection from Leviathan
Part I
JOHN LOCKE, Selections from the Second Treatise of
Civil Government
Chapter IX
Chapter XIX
Chapter 16 THE AGE OF REASON: 1700-1789
*IMMANUEL KANT, Selection from "Answer to the Question: What is
Enlightenment?"*
DENIS DIDEROT, Selections from Encyclopédie
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU, Selection from Confessions
Book I
VOLTAIRE, Selections from Candide
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter XXX
ALEXANDER POPE, Selections from An Essay on Man
Chapter 17 REVOLUTION, REACTION, AND CULTURAL RESPONSE: 1760-1830
THOMAS JEFFERSON, Selection from The Declaration of Independence
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
JANE AUSTEN, Selections from Pride and Prejudice
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey"
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, Selection from Faust, Part I
Night
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON, Selection from Don Juan
Canto I
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, Poems
"Ozymandias"
"England in 1819"
"Ode to the West Wind"
JOHN KEATS, Poems
"Ode on a Grecian Urn"
"To Autumn"
MARY SHELLEY, Selections from Frankenstein
Chapter IV
Chapter V
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL, Selection from Reason in History
III. The Idea of History and Its Realization
Chapter 18 THE TRIUMPH OF THE BOURGEOISIE: 1830-1871
KARL MARX and FRIEDRICH ENGELS, Selection from The Communist Manifesto
CHARLES DARWIN, Selection from The Descent of Man
CHARLOTTE BRONTË, Selection from Jane Eyre
Chapter XXIII
EMILY DICKINSON, Poems
"There's a certain Slant of light"
"I felt a Funeral, in my Brain"
"Much Madness is divinest Sense-"
"I heard a Fly buzz-when I died-"
"Because I could not stop for Death-"
WALT WHITMAN, Selections from "Song of Myself"
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, Selection from Madame Bovary
Chapter VIII
CHARLES DICKENS, Selection from Hard Times
Chapter V: The Key-note
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Selections from Narrative of the Life of Frederick
Douglass
*Chapter 1*
*Chapter 7*
SOJOURNER TRUTH, "Ain't I a Woman?"
*HENRY DAVID THOREAU, Selection from "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience"*
FYODOR DOSTEVSKY, Selection from Notes from Underground, Part I
Chapter 19 THE AGE OF EARLY MODERNISM: 1871-1914
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Selection from Thus Spake Zarathustra, Part I
SIGMUND FREUD, Selection from Civilization and Its Discontents
Chapter V
KATE CHOPIN, "The Story of an Hour"
FRANZ KAFKA, Selection from Metamorphosis
Chapter 20 THE AGE OF THE MASSES AND THE ZENITH OF MODERNISM: 1914-1945
ELIE WIESEL, Selection from Night
JAMES JOYCE, Selection from Ulysses
*VIRGINIA WOOLF, Selection from A Room of One's Own*
WILLIAM FAULKNER, Selection from The Sound and the Fury
April Seventh, 1928
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, Poems
"The Second Coming"
"Sailing to Byzantium"
T.S. ELIOT, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
LANGSTON HUGHES, Poems
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
"Theme for English B"
"Harlem"
ZORA NEALE HURSTON, "How It Feels to Be Colored Me"
GERTRUDE STEIN, Selection from The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
"Stein on Picasso and Matisse"
Chapter 21 THE AGE OF ANXIETY AND BEYOND: 1945-
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR, Selection from The Second Sex
Introduction
MALCOLM X and ALEX HALEY, Selection from The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Chapter XI "Saved"
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., Selection from "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE, Selection from The Humanism of Existentialism
JAMES BALDWIN, Selection from "Stranger in the Village"
DORIS LESSING, Selection from Martha Quest
Chapter I
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN, Selections from One Day in the Life of Ivan
Denisovich
ALLEN GINSBERG, "A Supermarket in California"
GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ, Selection from One Hundred Years of Solitude
Chapter I
ALICE WALKER, "Everyday Use"
TONI MORRISON, Selection from The Song of Solomon
Chapter I
MAXINE HONG KINGSTON, Selection from The Woman Warrior
No Name Woman