Culture and Values A Survey of the Humanities, Volume II

by Cunningham, Lawrence S.; Reich, John J.

• ISBN13: 9780495573548
• ISBN10: 049557354X
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-16
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

CULTURE AND VALUES: A SURVEY OF THE HUMANITIES gives readers a solid introduction to art, music, philosophy and literature. Cunningham and Reich cover both Western cultures and non-Western traditions in the humanities, including ancient India and China, contemporary India, China, Japan, Africa, and Latin America, as well as an entire chapter on Islamic art.

Table of Contents

Baroque

Descartes: Discourse on Methods +

Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan + Part I

John Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book I Of Innate Notions +

Introduction

No Innate Principles in the Mind

No Innate Practical Principles

Richard Crashaw: On the Wounds of Our Crucified Lord

John Donne: The Canonization

Moliere (Jean Baptiste Poquelin): Tartuffe, Act III

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra: The Adventures of Don Quixote: Part II -Chapters 10-

John Milton: Paradise Lost, Book I The Argument. 18th and 19th Century

Alexander Pope: Essay on Man, Epistle I. Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal

Jean Jacques Rousseau: Emile + Book IV

Rousseau: Social Contract + Book I, Section 4, Slavery

Voltaire: Candide or Optimism + Chapters 1-3 and 26-

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles: The Communist Manifesto + Preface, II Proletarians and Communist

William Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey

Percy Bysshe Shelley: "To++", "Ozymandias"

John Keats: Ode to a Nightingale

Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist +

And

Leo Tolstoy: The Three Hermits

Edgar Allan Poe: The Oval Portrait

Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass - Song of Myself

Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass + Songs of Parting: "As the Time Draws Nigh", "Years of the Modern", "Ashes of Soldiers", "Thoughts", "Song at Sunset"

Emily Dickenson: "For each ecstatic", "I held a Jewel in my fingers-", "There's a certain Slant of light", "I'm sorry for the Dead-Today-", "Because I could not stop for Death-", "Elysium is as far as to"

The Modern World

Anton Chekhov: The Bet

Henrik Ibsen: A Doll's House, Act III + Final Scene

Kate Chopin: The Story of an Hour

Kate Chopin: The Awakening

Prem Chand: The Shroud

Wu Ch'eng- en: Monkey +

Basho: Selected Haiku

Chinua Achebe: No Longer at Ease + Chapter One

T.S. Eliot: "The Hollow Men"

T.S. Eliot: The Wasteland + "The Fire Sermon"

Countee Cullen + "Heritage"

Langston Hughes: "I, Too, Sing America", "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

Helene Johnson: "Bottled"

James Joyce: Ulysses + Episode I Telemachus

Franz Kafka: The Trial +

In the Cathedral "Before the Law"

Aldous Huxley: Brave New World + Chapters 16 &

Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism and Humanism

Elie Wiesel: Night

Flannery O'Connor: Revelation

Gwendolyn Brooks: "The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till"

Sylvia Plath: "Lady Lazarus"

Adrienne Rich: "Diving into the Wreck"

Toni Morrison: Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, Stockholm, December 7, 1993

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