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Detailed Contents Part I - Exploring the Humanities Chapter 1: You and the Humanities Overview Gifts of the Humanities Love of the Beautiful Love of Movement Love of Language Love of Ideas Awareness of the Past Apollonian and Dionysian Responses to the Humanities The Pleasure of Responding Emotionally The Pleasure of Responding Critically A Guide to Critical Viewing: Professional and Personal How the Professional Critic Responds The Personal Critical Response Becoming an "Infinite" Person Epilogue Key Terms Topics for Writing and Discussion Chapter 2: Myth and the Origin of the Humanities Overview Archetypes in Mythology The Hero as World Myth Magic The Power of Words The Power of Numbers The Circle The Journey The Garden The Doomed Family Gods as Human Beings Myth as Explanation Creation The Laws of Nature Human Suffering Myths of Childhood The Need for Reassurance The Importance of Beauty and Wealth The Importance of Names The Dark Side Popular Mythology Common Sayings How Myth Influences the Humanities Epilogue Key Terms Topics for Writing and Discussion Chapter 3: Struggles of the Humanities Overview How Some Artists Fared in Their Lifetimes Belated Recognition Recognition in Life Reasons for Conflict Controversial Religious Views Controversial Political Views Controversial Sexual Views The Artist's Behavior Unfamiliar Form Repressive Measures Taken Against Artists Suppression of "Degenerate" Art "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been a Member....?" Moral Censorship Stereotyping as a Form of Repression The Stages of Stereotyping The Persistence of Stereotypes Women and the Humanities Early Exceptions to the Rule The Quest for Equality Epilogue Key Terms Topics for Writing and Discussion Part II [[emdash]] Disciplines of the Humanities Chapter 4: Literature Overview Literature as History The Basic Literary Impulse: Identity The First Epic: Gilgamesh Another Early Epic: Homer's Iliad Poetry Lyrical Poetry The Sonnet Chronology Haiku Simple Forms, Profound Meaning: William Blake Religious Poetry Modern Poetry Archetypes in this Chapter Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance Poetry In Our Time The Novel Early Western Novels An American Classic: Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby The Short Story Magazine Fiction A Short Story Masterpiece: Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" Epilogue Key Terms Topics for Writing and Discussion Chapter 5: Art Overview The Need to Imitate Let Me See! Styles and Media Creating Likeness in Different Styles Classical Art Medieval Art Giotto Renaissance Art Leonardo Michelangelo Raphael Two Women of the Post Renaissance Rembrandt: The Perfection of Likeness A Rebellion Against Perfect Likeness Goya Impressionism American Impressionism Post-Impressionism Art as Alternation Chronology The Sixty-Ninth Regiment Armory Show, 1913 Archetypes in this Chapter Cubism: Picasso and Braque Unreal Realism Superrealism Camera and Computer Art Pop Art Performance Art Architecture as Art Religious Architecture Secular Architecture Epilogue Key Terms Art Movements and Styles Topics for Writing and Discussion Chapter 6: Music Overview The Basic Elements of Music Tone Scale Rhythm Melody Harmony and Orchestra Silence The Varieties of Musical Experience A Bach Fugue A Beethoven Symphony Art Songs Chronology Folk Songs The Spiritual Ragtime Jazz Blues Archetypes in this Chapter Popular Songs Rock Hip-Hop World Music Avant-Garde Music Epilogue Key Terms Topics for Writing and Discussion Chapter 7: Theater Overview Conventions of Theater Classical Conventions Elizabethan Conventions Neoclassical Conventions Victorian Conventions Modern Conventions Tragedy Greek Tragedy Shakespearean Tragedy Neoclassical Tragedy Modern Tragedy Melodrama and Tragedy: A Contrast Comedy Farce Satire The Comedy of Character Theater of Ideas Ibsen Shaw Chronology Naturalism Chekov The Family Theme Archetypes in this Chapter A Theatrical Century of Dynamic Change The Modern Theater of Ideas Racial Themes Gay Rights Eastern Influences Behind the Scenes Epilogue Key Terms Topics for Writing and Discussion Chapter 8: Song and Dance Overview Opera and Operetta Monteverdi Classical Opera Mozart Romantic Opera Wagner Modern American Opera Treemonisha Showboat: An Operetta Porgy and Bess Nixon in China The Peking Opera The Broadway Musical Of Thee I Sing Chronology Pal Joey Oklahoma! West Side Story Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street The Lion King Dance Archetypes in this Chapter Ballet Modern Dance Folkloric Tradition Epilogue Key Terms Topics for Writing and Discussion Chapter 9: Cinema Overview Conventions of Film Some Early Milestones Art and Propaganda I: D.W. Griffith Art and Propaganda II: Sergei Eisenstein Slapstick Comedy and More: Sennett, Chaplin, and Cantinflas Major Film Genres Film Noir Romantic Comedy Dramedy The Comedy of Manners Musical Comedy: Singing and Dancing with Fred, Ginger, and Gene The Western Slice-of-Life Social Realism Documentaries and Docudramas Fictionalized Biography Chronology Loosely Based on the Original The Top Two American Films of the 20th Century Citizen Kane Casablanca The Film Auteur Archetypes in this Chapter Ingmar Bergman Federico Fellini Alfred Hitchcock Akira Kurosawa Stanley Kubrick Francis Ford Coppola Martin Scorsese Pedro Almodovar A Word of Critical Viewing Epilogue Key Terms Topics for Writing and Discussion PART III - THEMES IN THE HUMANITIES Chapter 10: Religion Overview The Belief in Many Gods Egypt Hinduism Greek and Roman Polytheism Native American Religions The Belief in an Impersonal Divinity Buddhism Taoism Socrates and Plato Aristotle's Unmoved Mover The Belief in One God Judaism Christianity Good, Evil, and Augustine Chronology Logical Proof Islam The Protestant Reformation The Questioning of Belief Agnosticism Atheism Archetypes in this Chapter Religion and the Arts Epilogue Key Terms Topics for Writing and Discussion Chapter 11: Morality Overview How We Arrive At Moral Decisions Moral Systems The Arts and Morality The Morality of Self-Interest Glaucon versus Socrates Enlightened Self-Interest Economics and Self-Interest Transcending Self-Interest: Altruism Moral Authorities A Philosophical Defense of Altruism The Moral Mathematics of Jeremy Bentham Utilitarianism Modified: John Stuart Mill The Moral Imperative of Immanuel Kant Chronology Religion and Morality Archetypes in this Chapter The Morality of Work Moral Relativism The Global View Feminist Morality Epilogue Key Terms Topics for Writing and Discussion Chapter 12: Happiness Overview Hedonism: Happiness as Pleasure Hedonist Assumptions Hedonism Reconsidered Epicureanism: Avoiding Pain Epicurean Assumptions Epicureanism Reconsidered Stoicism: Strategies for Survival Working on the Mind Stoicism Reconsidered Aristotelianism: Happiness as the Quality of a Whole Life Pleasure a Limited Goal; Happiness a Complete Goal Providing Happiness: A Government's Responsibility? Chronology Aristotle Reconsidered Eastern Philosophy and Happiness Gandhi Archetypes in this Chapter Buddhist Paths The Dalai Lama Epilogue Key Terms Topics for Writing and Discussion Chapter 13: Love Overview Body and Soul Eros Agape Family Love Friendship Romantic Love Mariolatry Romance and Chivalry Chronology Courtly Love Love as a Game Love and Marriage The Victorian Model Archetypes in this Chapter New Versions and Continued Misgivings Love in a Time of Health Hazards Love and Older People Imagining a World in Which Only Sex Exists Epilogue Key Terms Topics for Writing and Discussion Chapter 14: Death and Life-Affirmation Overview Images of Death Death in the Popular Arts Humor Magnifying and Beautifying Death The Medicalization of Death Death in Literature Death in Music A Philosopher's Death Death and the After-Life Death and Fate Symbolic Death Unworth Symbolic Suicide Chronology Symbolic Murder Models of Life Affirmation The Phoenix There is Only Now Archetypes in this Chapter Reinventing Ourselves The Forgiveness Ritual Epilogue Key Terms Topics for Writing and Discussion Chapter 15: Freedom Overview Determinism and the Limitation of Choice Past and Present Limitations Institutional Determinism Economic Determinism Character Consistency Behaviorism Genetics Sociobiology Possibilities for Freedom A Pessimist's Definition of the Will Regret and Relief Psychoanalysis: Freedom through the Conscious Ego Chronology Existentialism Religious existentialism Secular existentialism Archetypes in this Chapter Freedom Within Limitations Epilogue Key Terms Topics for Writing and Discussion Endnotes Index
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Conduct of life -- Textbooks.
Humanities -- Textbooks.