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Foundations of World Culture II: World Literatures and Texts

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Instructor: Dr. Ghenwa Hayek
Term: Spring 2012
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Lecture 2: Diderot, Denis. Supplement du Voyage du Bougainville . Livres Généraux, 2010. ISBN: 9781155135021. Montesquieu. Persian Letters , Letters 25–30, 1721.

Lecture 3: Kant, Immanuel. “ What is Entitlement? ”, 1784.

Lecture 4: Xuegin, Cao. Chapters 1–7 in The Story of the Stone Vol. 1 . Translated by David Hawkes. Penguin Classics, 1974. ISBN: 9780140442939.

Lecture 5: Xuegin, Cao. Chapters 8–16 in The Story of the Stone Vol. 1 . Translated by David Hawkes. Penguin Classics, 1974. ISBN: 9780140442939. (cont.)

Lecture 6: Xuegin, Cao. Chapters 17–26 in The Story of the Stone Vol. 1 . Translated by David Hawkes. Penguin Classics, 1974. ISBN: 9780140442939. (cont.)

Lecture 7: Smith, Adam. Chapters I–IX and Books I–V in The Wealth of Nations . Simon & Brown, 2012. ISBN: 9781613820810. Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels. Chapter I in The Communist Manifesto . CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012. ISBN: 9781453704424.

Lecture 8: Mill, John Stuart. Chapters 1–3 in On Liberty: The Subjection of Women . Nabu Press, 2010. ISBN: 9781146671996.

Lecture 9: Darwin, Charles. The Origin of Species . Signet Classics, 2003. ISBN: 9780451529060.

Lecture 10: Nietzsche, Friedrich. Preface, part 1 (1, 6, 9, 23), part 2 (24, 26, 29, 36, 44), part 3 (52, 59, 61), part 7 (238–239), and part 9 in Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future . Translated by Walter Kaufmann. Vintage, 1989. ISBN: 9780679724650.

Lecture 11: Freud, Sigmund. Civilization and Its Discontents . W. W. Norton & Company, 2010. ISBN: 9780393304510.

Lecture 12: Freud, Sigmund. Civilization and Its Discontents . W. W. Norton & Company, 2010. ISBN: 9780393304510. (cont.)

Lecture 13: Tagore, Rabindranath. Broken Nest and Other Stories . Translated by Sharmistha Mohanty. Westland Limited, 2009. ISBN: 9788189975630.

Lecture 14: Beauvoir, Simone de. “Introduction” In The Second Sex . Vintage, 2011. ISBN: 9780307277787. Parker-Pope, Tara. “ Do Women Like Child Care More Than Men? ” New York Times , March 22, 2012.

Lecture 15: Beauvoir, Simone de. “Conclusion” In The Second Sex . Vintage, 2011. ISBN: 9780307277787.

Lecture 16: Kincaid, Jamaica. “Girl.” (PDF) In At the Bottom of the River. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000. ISBN: 9780374527341.

Lecture 17: Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness and Other Tales . Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780199536016. [Preview with Google Books ]

Lecture 18: Salih, Al-Tayyib, and Tayeb Salih. Season of Migration to the North: A Novel . NYRB Classics, 2009. ISBN: 9781590173022.

Lecture 19: Salih, Al-Tayyib, and Tayeb Salih. Season of Migration to the North: A Novel . NYRB Classics, 2009. ISBN: 9781590173022. (cont.)

Lecture 20: neversaidb4. “Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People (part 1).” June 24, 2008. YouTube. Accessed November 16, 2012. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1-Bbz_TBMc . Said, Edward W. Orientalism . Vintage, 1979, pp. 1–92. ISBN: 9780394740676.

Lecture 21: Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison . Vintage Books, 1995, pp. 3–8, 195–228. ISBN: 9780679752554.

Lecture 22: Arendt, Hannah. Reflections on Violence . Collier-MacMillan Ltd., 1969.