Reading List
Reading List
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| The Iliad | The Aneid |
| The Odyssey | The Erotic Poems |
| The Homeric Hymns | Confessions |
| Oresteia | Inferno |
| Aeschylus | The Decameron |
| Sophacles | Essays |
| Thucydides | The Tempest |
| Lysisrata | King Lear |
| Symposium | Don Quixote |
| The Bible | Faust |
| Pride and Prejudice | |
| To the Lighthouse |
Survey
#1 What are the advantages of having the Literature Humanities course as part of Columbia's Core Curriculum?
| - It gives everyone a chance to be introduced to Greek Literature and most of the best writers of the world. |
| - It teaches textual analysis and provides a broad base of literary knowledge that is invaluable...... |
| - It exposes us to the books that defined/founded the seven main plots and themes of literature. |
| - It taches a basic method of approaching cannonized literature and places first-years in contact with each other in a small class setting. |
| - It gives every student a better basis for understanding the works that they will encounter throughout their years at the university. |
#2 Do you think Don Quixote should have been captured and put in the "nut house"?
| - Yeah--he injured inoocent people for his own fantasies. |
| - No. He was good intentioned if possessing poor means. |
| - Not at all - I actually admired his blind individuality. |
| - No, because while he clearly had a blurred perspective, his imaginative reality never caused serious harm. |
| - Yes, for his own good. His insanity often puts him in harm's way. |
#3 If there was one book you could delete from the course, which would it be and why?
| - The Homeric Hymns because it was too short and insignificant to all the other works. |
| - The Iliad because I do not like epic poetry. |
| - None actually - I'd prefer that some books be added, maybe Paradise Lost or The Cantebury Tales. |
| - The Erotic Poems because it added the least to the overall progression of Literature. |
| - None. |
#4 Do you think that men at Columbia should start following Ovid's "Art of Love"? For example, Ovid suggests that men should not look for women in the dark because it hides their ugliness.
| - No because men should not only look for beauty in a woman. |
| - Of course not! All Columbian women are beautiful/ |
| - I wrote that. Everything he wrote souded like words/ethics that I live by... so, Yes. |
| - The West End is pretty dark and that hasn't stopped anyone, so... No. |
| - NO! |
#5 What was your favorite book and why?
| - Inferno - the details of Hell were like nothing I've ever imagined. |
| - King Lear. I like a challenge, especially the complexity of Shakespeare. Lear still "stumps" me. |
| - A tie between Faust and The Iliad because of the way they describe INNER turmoil. |
| - Boccacccio's Decameron because it was entertaining to read and different from evreything else we read. |
| - Pride and Prejudice. It wasn't the most thought-provoking or enlightening books, but it was definitly the most fun to read. |