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Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World

by David Denby

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 465-470) and index.
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David Denby

David Denby has been film critic of New York magazine since 1978, and is a contributing editor of The New Yorker. His reviews and essays have also appeared in The New Republic, The Atlantic, and The New York Review of Books. He lives in Manhattan with his wife, novelist Cathleen Schine, and their two sons.

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Table of Contents

Contents

Introduction

Reading Lists

FIRST SEMESTER

1. Homer I

2. Sappho

Interlude One

3. Plato I

4. Homer II

Interlude Two

5. Plato II

6. Sophocles

7. Aristotle

Interlude Three

8. Aeschylus and Euripides Interlude Four

9. Virgil

10. The Old Testament

11. The New Testament

12. Augustine

13. Machiavelli

Interlude Five

14. Hobbes and Locke

15. Examination

Winter Break

SECOND SEMESTER

16. Dante

17. Boccaccio

18. Hume and Kant

Interlude Six

19. Montaigne

20. Rousseau

21. Shakespeare

22. Hegel

23. Austen

24. Marx and Mill

25. Nietzsche

Interlude Seven

26. Beauvoir

27. Conrad

28. Woolf

Epilogue

Appendix: Earlier Reading Lists

Selected Bibliography

Index

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ISBN:
9780684809755
Author:
Denby, David
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Location:
New York :
Subject:
History
Subject:
Americas (North Central South West Indies)
Subject:
Literature
Subject:
Bibliographies & Indexes
Subject:
Books & Reading
Subject:
Books and reading
Subject:
Civilization, western
Subject:
Humanities
Subject:
Bibliography
Subject:
Literature -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States.
Subject:
Civilization, Western -- History -- Sources -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States.
Subject:
General Literary Criticism & Collections
Copyright:
1996
Series Volume:
5
Publication Date:
19960909
Binding:
Hardback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
496
Dimensions:
9.25 x 6.125 in 27.09 oz
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