August 11 - 27, 2008

Anthology

I. Philosophy, Cultural History, & Crticism

Texts

Epicurus Selections: 5-31; 32-40; 47-67 (341-270 BCE) from The Epicurus Reader
Lucretius Selections (first century BCE) from De Rerum Natura Book II, trans W.H.D. Rouse and others
*Hannah Arendt Prologue and Chapter 1 (1958) from The Human Condition
Aristotle Selections (384-322 BCE) from the Politics, the Poetics, and theEthics
Edward Said "Movements & Migrations" (1993) from Culture & Imperialism
Edouard Glissant "Distancing, Determining" (1997) from The Poetics of Relation
Michel Foucault "Docile Bodies" (1975) from Discipline and Punish, trans Donald M. Frame
N. Katherine Hayles Prologue and Conclusion (1999) from How We Became Posthuman
Thomas Nagel "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" (1974) printed in Philosophical Review
Susan Sontag Chapter 6 (2003) from Regarding the Pain of Others
Ludwig Wittgenstein Chapter on "Meaning and Understanding" (1994) from The Wittgenstein Reader, ed. Anthony Kenny
Peter Singer Animal Liberation (1973) printed in New York Review of Books

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II. Sciences & Mathematics

Texts

Charles Darwin On Natural Selection (Separate Text) (1859)
Benoit B. Mandelbrot Selections (1977) from The Fractal Geometry of Nature
William Cronon "The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature" (1996) from Uncommon Ground
Sherry B. Ortner "Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture?" (1972) printed in Feminist Studies
Ilya Prigogine & Isabelle Stengers Introduction and Conclusion (1984) from Order out of Chaos
Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud Correspondence: "Why War?" (1932) from Einstein on Peace, trans Stuart Gilbert

III. Essays

Texts

Michel de Montaigne "Of Cannibals" (16^th century) from The Complete Works of Montaigne
Vladimir Nabokov Selection (1980) from Lecture on Franz Kafka’s "The Metamorphosis"
* Martin Luther King "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (1963) printed in Letters of a Nation
Rosmarie Waldrop "Alarms & Excursions" (1990) from The Politics of Poetic Form
Jonathan Skinner "Editor’s Statement" (2001-2002) from Ecopoetics, no. 1
Sherry Turkle "Diary" (2006) from London Review of Books
Charles Bernstein "The Difficult Poem" (2003) printed in Harper’s

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IV. Paradoxes, Manifestos, Aphorisms

Texts

G.S. Kirk and J.E. Raven on Zeno of Elea (Zeno: 490-430 BCE) from The Presocratic Philosophers, 1957
Tristan Tzara "Dada Manifesto" (1918) from Seven Dada Manifestos and Lampisteries, trans Barbara Wright, 1977
André Breton "First Surrealist Manifesto" (1924) from Surrealism by Patrick Waldberg and Le Manifeste du Surréalisme
Miguel de Cervantes Selection from Chapter LI / The Liar’s Paradox (1615) from Don Quixote, trans Samuel Putnam
Alan Ross Anderson St. Pau"s Epistle to Titus (1970) from Paradox of the Liar, ed. Robert Martin
The New Collectivists "Poetics of Intent" (2000s)
Mina Loy "Aphorisms on Futurism" (1914) from The Last Lunar Baedeker

V. Poetry

Texts

César Vallejo "Piedra Negra Sobre una Piedra Blanca" (1936) from Neruda and Vallejo, multiple translations provided
Wallace Stevens "Connoisseur of Chaos" & "Chaos in Motion and Not in Motion" (1935) from The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
Mina Loy "Gertrude Stein" (1924) printed in The Lost Lunar Baedeker
Harryette Mullen "Mantra for a Classless Society, or Mr. Roget’s Neighborhood" (2002) from Sleeping with the Dictionary
Rosario Castellanos "The Other" (1959) & "Poetry Is Not You" (1972) printed in The Selected Poems of Rosario Castellanos
Rainer Maria Rilke from "The First Elegy" (1922) from Duineser Elegien, multiple translations provided
Gertrude Stein "If I Told Him A Completed Portrait of Picasso" (1923)
"A Movie" (1920) & "Matisse" (1911)
W.H. Auden "Musée des Beaux Arts" (1940) from Another Time
Ovid from Metamorphoses Book VIII (circa 43 BCE-18 BCE) rom the Loeb Classical Library edition, trans Frank Justus Miller
Muriel Rukeyser "Waiting for Icarus" (1944) from Breaking Open
William Carlos Williams "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" (1962) from "Pictures from Brueghel" originally published in The Hudson Review
Wislawa Szymborska "Could Have" (1972) from View with a Grain of Sand, trans Stanislaw Baranczak and Cavanagh Clare
René Char "alouette" (1952) & "Redonnez-Leur" ( 1948) in multiple translations
Vincente Huidobro "Fuerzas Naturales" (1931) trans David Ossman and Carlos Hagen
Paul Eluard "Le Sourd et "Aveugle" (1926) & "La Grande Maison Inhabitable" (1926)
"Mascha Riait Aux Anges" (1926) & from "Confections" (1930)from Capitale de la Douleur (1926) and A Toute Epreuve (1930), multiple translations

VI. Fictions and Drama

Texts

* Franz Kafka "The Metamorphosis" (Separate Text) (1915) from The Complete Stories, trans Willa Muir and Edwin Muir
* Sophocles Antigone, trans Nicholas Rudall (Separate Text) (circa 441 BCE)
Chinua Achebe "Civil Peace" (1972) from African Short Stories
J.M. Coetzee "ONE: The Philosophers and the Animals" (2003) from Elizabeth Costello
Franz Kafka "A Report to an Academy" (1917) printed in Selected Short Stories of Franz Kafka, trans Willa Muir and Edwin Muir
Lydia Davis "Extracts from a Life" (1986) from Break It Down
Samuel Beckett "Come and Go" (1967) from Cascondo and Other Short Dramatic Pieces

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