HUMN530 - The Renaissance
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This course provides an overview of works of the Renaissance, and offers a detailed study of its major thinkers. Issues include the birth of rationalism, individualism, skepticism, and secularism. Questions address the problem of what the knower knows, the war between intellectual tradition and change, and the dominance of the sphere of science. Readings for this course include: Petrarch's Selections from the Canzoniere and Other Works; Machiavelli's The Prince; Francois Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel; Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's Don Quixote; Shakespeare's King Lear; Michael de Montaigne's Selections from the Essays; John Donne's Selected Poems; Rene Descartes' Discourse on Method, and his Meditations; and John Milton's Paradise Lost.
Prerequisites
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Corequisites
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Schedule of Classes
| 09/26/11 - 02/26/12 |
03/05/12 - 06/24/12 |
Winter 2012 Session C - 16 Week session |
| 12/26/11 - 05/27/12 |
06/04/12 - 09/23/12 |
Spring 2012 Session C - 16 Week session |
Course Materials
| Book Title: |
Gragantua and Pantagruel-Available online at www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1200
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| ISBN: |
0140445501
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| Publication Info: |
Penguin Classics
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| Author: |
Rabelais, Francois
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| Unit Cost: |
$20.00
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| Book Title: |
The Prince, A Revised Translation, Backgrounds, Interpretations, Marginalia
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| ISBN: |
0393962202
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| Publication Info: |
Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc., 1992
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| Author: |
Niccolò Machiavelli, Robert M. Adams (Editor)
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| Unit Cost: |
$16.50
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| Book Title: |
The Bedford Anthology of World Literature: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650, Book 3
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| ISBN: |
0312402627
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| Publication Info: |
N/A
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| Author: |
Davis, P
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| Unit Cost: |
$52.25
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| Book Title: |
Essays-Available online at www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3600
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| ISBN: |
014017897X
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| Publication Info: |
Penguin
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| Author: |
Montaigne, M
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| Unit Cost: |
$16.00
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