Hum/En 5       Major British Authors    
Winter Term 2006      Section 3

Library reserve

    From the first week of term, a collection of books you might find helpful for this class will be on reserve in the Dabney library.  None of this reading is required; it's available purely for you to consult with any broad questions you have, or perhaps to think about while writing your paper assignments.  Some extra copies of our assigned readings will be on reserve as well.  More books may be added as the term goes on, so keep checking this page or visit the reserve.
   
     The Dabney library is on the ground floor of Dabney Hall, on the north end of the building (toward the Beckman auditorium).  Their hours are 8 am to 1 am during term time (9 am to 1 am on weekends).

     Our reserve books are on a trolley near the elevator door inside the library.  You can look at them in the library, or you can check them out for a 24-hour loan.  If there's no staff at the main desk, you can still check books out, either by using the self-service machine across from the desk or by writing your information on the clipboard they keep on top of the desk.

     This reserve collection is shared not only with your classmates but also with another section of the same class:  please be responsible about returning your books on time so others can use them.  It would be reasonable if you limited yourself to two consecutive 24-hour loans of the same book, and if you checked out no more than two books at a time.

Books on literature and history:

     M. I. Finley, The Ancient Greeks:  An Introduction to Their Life and Thought
     Jacob Burckhardt, The Civilization of the Renaissance (two copies)
     Helen Vendler, The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets
     James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson
     P. Rogers (ed.), Johnson & Boswell in Scotland
     Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Books on games, language, and social life:

     J. L. Austin, How to Do Things With Words
     Ted Cohen, Jokes:  Philosophical Thoughts on Joking Matters
     Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
     Johan Huizinga, Homo Ludens:  A Study of the Play-Element in Culture

Extra copies of our course books:

     Plato, Symposium (2 copies; an older Penguin translation, not exactly the same as ours)
     Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier (2 copies:  one 20th-century translation, not exactly the same as ours, and the first English translation by Sir Thomas Hoby, from 1561)

Enjoy the exploration!

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