Core Texts in Conversation

by Rodeheffer, Jane Kelley; Lee, Scott J.; Sokolowski, David; Lenoir, Timothy; Woelfel, James; Colson, Darrel D.; Duguid, Stephen; Thompson, Don; Carlile, Theodora S.; Kalkavage, Peter; Herman, Stewart W.; Arthur, A.G; Faust, Joan; Costas, Christopher L.; Le

• ISBN13: 9780761816799
• ISBN10: 0761816798
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-03-22
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

Co-published with the Association for Core Text and Courses, this book contains a collection of core texts that are appropriate for students of all majors. The volume is a resource for educators attempting to create a cohesive structure to their curriculum, integrating it with texts of cultural significance. Students, through critical thinking, bridge discipline (science and the arts), culture (East and West), and time period (ancient and modern). Rich with possibility for either public or private colleges, Core Texts in Conversation is a valuable guide for curriculum building in any discipline.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction	ix
I. Core Texts and the History and Philosophy of Science
Core Text/Context: Reading Darwin Between the Lines	1	(12)
Timothy Lenoir
Gould's ``Nonoverlapping Magisteria'': The Real Issue Between Theism and Darwinism	13	(6)
James Woelfel
Galileo's Faith	19	(4)
Darrel D. Colson
Following the Passionate Atoms: Epicurus and Lucretius	23	(8)
Stephen Duguid
Symbol, the Infinite, and Paradox: Euclidean Essentials	31	(5)
Don Thompson
A Crack in the Surface, 1601: Hamlet Reads Lucretian Atomism	36	(5)
Theodora S. Carlile
Why Read Ptolemy?	41	(8)
Peter Kalkavage
II. Feminist and Modernist Issues in Core Texts
Under the Gaze of the Ancients: Dante, Foucault and the Discipline of Being Seen by the Curriculum	49	(8)
Stewart W. Herman
Marguerite De Navarre, Louise Labe, Rabelais, and Montaigne: Feminist Issues in the Sixteenth Century	57	(8)
A.G. Arthur
Milton's Satan: Victim of Sibling Rivalry?	65	(6)
Joan Faust
Confronting the Fragments: Eliot's Four Qrartets	71	(8)
Christopher L. Constas
When Learning Goes Awry: Meditations on the Malleus Malificarum	79	(10)
Anne Leavitt
III. Ancient and Medieval Gaps: Classical Core Texts from Eastern and Western Traditions
A Social Science Core Text from the Medieval Islamic World: Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah and its Model of Social Change	89	(12)
Thomas Barfield
Teaching the Confucian Analects	101	(6)
Brian Jorgensen
Core Texts and The Cultivation of Virtue: Reading Confucius Reading Plato	107	(10)
Jane Kelley Rodeheffer
Confronting Preconceptions Concerning the Past in Gilgamesh and its Biblical Parallels	117	(6)
James M. Vest
In the Medieval Gap with Dante's Admiral Beatrice	123	(8)
James F. Walter
Machiavelli's Debt to Medieval Thought	131	(8)
IV. New Perspectives on Shakespeare as Core Text
Shakespeare in the Core Curriculum	139	(10)
David Bevington
Prophecy Eclipsed: Hamlet as a Tragedy of Knowledge	149	(6)
William Franke
Speech in Dumbness: Female Eloquence and Male Authority in The Winter's Tale	155	(8)
Ellen Belton
Forgiving Prospero: The Audience's ``Rarer Action'' in The Tempest	163	(12)
Barrett Fisher
Instructions to Ariel: A Way to Understand Prospero's Political Plan	175	(6)
Darcy Wudel
V. Core Texts and Writing
Antigone, Writing, and Linked Classes	181	(6)
Terese Balistreri Hartman
Memories, Stories, Histories, Student Journal Writing and the Construction of Meaning	187	(10)
Katherine Platt
Writing About and Through Herman Melville's Moby Dick: Reading and Thinking Interdisciplinarily	197
David Sokolowski