Readings in the Western Humanities, Volume II : The Renaissance to the Present

by Matthews, Roy T.; Platt, F. Dewitt

• ISBN13: 9780073136400
• ISBN10: 0073136409
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-03-02
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

This reader is designed to accompany volume two of "The Western Humanities," Sixth Edition. The anthology offers students selections from the West's literary and philosophical heritage, to help them establish vital intellectual links to the achievements of the continually evolving Western tradition. Each reading is preceded by an introduction, which provides information about the author and historical context for the document. In addition, "Reading the Selections" sections provide more specific information to prepare the students for reading the documents to follow. Selections are footnoted.

Table of Contents

Preface

The Early Renaissance: Return To Classical Roots, 1400-1494 Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

Selections from On the Dignity of Man

Selection from On Painting Book II

The High Renaissance And Early Mannerism, 1494-1564 Gaspara Stampa

Poems “3” “43” “98” “104” “151”

Selections from The Book of the Courtier Book I Book III

Selections from The Prince Chapter XV Chapter XVI Chapter XVII

Northern Humanism, Northern Renaissance, Religious Reformations, And Late Mannerism: 1500-1603

Selection from The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel Book I

Selection from The Praise of Folly

Selection from Utopia Book II

Selection from Essays Book I

Hamlet Act I Act II Act III Act IV Act V

Selections from the Ninety-Five Theses

Selection from

The Baroque Age: Glamour And Grandiosity: 1600-1715 Sister Juana InÉS

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

Selection from Paradise Lost Book I

Selection from Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave: A True History

The Baroque Age Ii: Revolutions In Scientific And Political Thought: 1600-1715

Selections from the Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems—Ptolemaic and Copernican To the Discerning Reader The First Day

Selection from Essays Of Studies

Selections from Discourse on Method Part II Part IV

Selection from Leviathan Part I

Selections from the Second Treatise of Civil Government Chapter IX Chapter XIX

The Age Of Reason: 1700-1789

Selection from “Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?”

Selections from Encyclopédie

Selection from Confessions Book I VOLTAIRE, Selections from Candide Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter V Chapter VI Chapter XXX

Selections from An Essay on Man

Trevolution, Reaction, And Cultural Response: 1760-1830

Selection from The Declaration of Independence Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

Selections from Pride and Prejudice Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III

Abbey”

Selection from Faust, Part I

Selection from Don Juan Canto I

Poems “Ozymandias” “England in 1819” “Ode to the West Wind”

Poems “Ode on a Grecian Urn” “To Autumn”

Selections from Frankenstein Chapter IV

Selection from Reason in History III. The Idea of History and Its Realization

The Triumph Of The Bourgeoisie: 1830-1871

Selection from The Communist Manifesto

Selection from The Descent of Man

Selection from Jane Eyre Chapter XXIII

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—“

Selections from “Song of Myself”

Selection from Madame Bovary Chapter VIII

Selection from Hard Times Chapter V: The Key-note

Selections from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass *Chapter 1* *Chapter 7*

“Ain’t I a Woman?”

Selection from “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience”

Selection from Notes from Underground, Part I

The Age Of Early Modernism: 1871-1914

Selection from Thus Spake Zarathustra, Part I

Selection from Civilization and Its Discontents Chapter V

“The Story of an Hour”

Selection from Metamorphosis

the Age Of The Masses And The Zenith Of Modernism: 1914-1945

Selection from Night

Selection from Ulysses

Selection from A Room of One’s Own

Selection from The Sound and the Fury April Seventh, 1928

Poems “The Second Coming” “Sailing to

Byzantium”

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Poems “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” “Theme for English B” “Harlem”

“How It

Feels to Be Colored Me”

Selection from The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas “Stein on Picasso and Matisse”

The Age Of Anxiety And Beyond: 1945- Simone

Selection from The Second Sex Introduction

Selection from The Autobiography of Malcolm X Chapter XI “Saved”

Selection from “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”

Selection from The Humanism of Existentialism

Selection from “Stranger in the Village”

Selection from Martha Quest Chapter I

Selections from One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

“A Supermarket in California”

Selection from One Hundred Years of Solitude Chapter I

“Everyday Use”

Selection from The Song of Solomon Chapter I

Selection from The Woman Warrior No

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