Introduction | p. vii |
Liberal Education and the Place of Core Texts | |
Free to Hear Our Calling | p. 3 |
Is the Classroom a Paradise Lost or Regained? | p. 11 |
Does Liberal Democracy Stifle Liberal Education?: Nietzsche's Challenge to the Core | p. 19 |
Common Readers and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse | p. 27 |
Netscape-induced Hysteria and the Proper Place of the Book | p. 33 |
The Conversation-Authors and Students | |
An American Conversation: Benjamin Franklin and Frederick Douglass | p. 43 |
Guiding Curiousity: Augustine's Confessions and Dante's Inferno | p. 49 |
Three Philosophical Heroes: King, Boethius, and Socrates | p. 55 |
A Place for Silence in the Core Text Curriculum: Benedict's Rule and the Great Books Dialogue | p. 61 |
Politics and the Place of Core Texts | |
"The king-becoming graces": Linking Core Courses in a First-year Learning Community | p. 69 |
Wooing Tyranny in Shakespeare's Richard III | p. 75 |
Ancient Historians and Modern History: Herodotus and Thucydides on Patriotism | p. 81 |
Imagine That: Some Latent Lessons in Thucydides' History | p. 89 |
Achilleus Now: Core Texts, the Good Life, and Democratic Society | p. 93 |
Finding a Place in the Core | |
Staging as Teaching: The Philoctetes in the Liberal Arts Curriculum | p. 101 |
The Necessity of Eloquence | p. 107 |
The Compleat Protestant Reformation in a Single Core Text: The Pedagogy of Historicity | p. 117 |
Using Thomas More's Utopia in the Western Civilization Survey | p. 123 |
Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali-A Case Study in Diversification of the Core | p. 127 |
Contemporary Texts and the Core | |
The Hungry Gene as a Core Text in a Freshman Learning Community | p. 135 |
Educating Women: Classic Texts and Modern Films | p. 141 |
The Secret of The Secret History, Or Adding a New York Times Best Seller to Columbia's Core | p. 147 |
The Reader's Odyssey: Teaching Homer, Keats, Tennyson, and Cavafy | p. 153 |
"It doesn't have to be that way": The Place of the Core and Mike Rose's Lives on the Boundary | p. 161 |
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