Fall 2008 Brilliant Minds reading list

Readings include:

1. Aristophanes, The Complete Plays, (we will read Clouds), trans. Roche (New American Library)
2. Comnena, The Alexiad (Penguin Classics)
3. Shakespeare, Coriolanus (The Pelican Shakespeare)
4. Eliot, The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Classics)
5. Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)
6. Joyce, Dubliners (Oxford World's Classics)
7. Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita (Penguin Classics)
8. Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel

Editions subject to change.

Comments

[judith stillinger]

Peter,

I have a question - will we be reading
all of "The Alexiad of Anna Comnena"
or just certain chapters. I'd like to
get started on it and wondered how much
of it to read.

Thanks.