Arts One: Seeing and knowing
Please click the link below for a list of books with ISBN numbers. If you choose to order the books on your own rather than getting them from the bookstore, be sure to get the same editions as on this list.
Seeing & Knowing Booklist 2016-2017 (PDF)
Sophocles, Oedipus the King
Plato, Republic
Mencius, selections
Hildegard von Bingen, Selected Writings, and Margarethe von Trotta, Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen (film)
William Shakespeare, The Tempest
Galileo Galilei, selections
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A Discourse on Inequality
William Blake, Songs of Innocence andExperience (poetry & engravings)
Charles Darwin, selections from Voyage of the Beagle and other texts
Sigmund Freud, The Uncanny and selections from Interpretation of Dreams
E.T.A. Hoffmann, “The Sandman”
German short stories, probably including Heinrich von Kleist, “The Earthquake in Chile” and Arthur Schnitzler, Lieutenant Gustl
Selected films from the Weimar period (possibly Wiene, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari; Lang, Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler; Grune, The Street)
Vertov, Man With a Movie Camera (film)
Bertolt Brecht, Galileo (play)
Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber, with a few fairy tales
David Dabydeen, Slave Song, plus other poems
Michel Foucault, selections on the “Panopticon” from Discipline and Punish
Laura Mulvey, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”
Alfred Hitchcock, Vertigo (film)
Toni Morrison, Jazz
Blake Hausman, Riding the Trail of Tears
A few machinima (movies filmed in digital space), from http://www.timetravellertm.com/episodes/
W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz
Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A FamilyTragicomic (graphic novel), plus selections from Scott McCloud Understanding Comics and Nick Sousanis, Unflattening (Nick Sousanis will give a guest lecture for us!)
Paul Auster, City of Glass
Paul Karasik & David Mazzuchelli, City of Glass (graphic novel adaptation of Auster’s novel)