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| Exploring the Humanities | |
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| You and the Humanities | |
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| Overview | |
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| Gifts of the Humanities | |
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| Love of the Beautiful | |
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| Love of Movement | |
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| Love of Language | |
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| Love of Ideas | |
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| Awareness of the Past | |
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| Apollonian and Dionysian Responses to the Humanities | |
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| The Pleasure of Responding Emotionally | |
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| The Pleasure of Responding Critically | |
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| A Guide to Critical Viewing: Professional and Personal | |
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| How the Professional Critic Responds | |
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| The Personal Critical Response | |
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| Becoming an "Infinite" Person | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Topics for Writing and Discussion | |
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| Myth and the Origin of the Humanities | |
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| Overview | |
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| Archetypes in Mythology | |
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| The Hero as World Myth | |
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| Magic | |
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| The Power of Words | |
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| The Power of Numbers | |
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| The Circle | |
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| The Journey | |
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| The Garden | |
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| The Doomed Family | |
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| Gods as Human Beings | |
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| Myth as Explanation | |
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| Creation | |
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| The Laws of Nature | |
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| Human Suffering | |
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| Myths of Childhood | |
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| The Need for Reassurance | |
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| The Importance of Beauty and Wealth | |
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| The Importance of Names | |
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| The Dark Side | |
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| Popular Mythology | |
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| Common Sayings | |
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| How Myth Influences the Humanities | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Topics for Writing and Discussion | |
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| Struggles of the Humanities | |
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| Overview | |
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| How Some Artists Fared in Their Lifetimes | |
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| Belated Recognition | |
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| Recognition in Life | |
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| Reasons for Conflict | |
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| Controversial Religious Views | |
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| Controversial Political Views | |
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| Controversial Sexual Views | |
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| The Artist's Behavior | |
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| Unfamiliar Form | |
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| Repressive Measures Taken Against Artists | |
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| Suppression of "Degenerate" Art | |
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| "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been a Member..?" | |
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| Moral Censorship | |
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| Stereotyping as a Form of Repression | |
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| The Stages of Stereotyping | |
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| The Persistence of Stereotypes | |
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| Women and the Humanities | |
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| Early Exceptions to the Rule | |
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| The Quest for Equality | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Topics for Writing and Discussion | |
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| Disciplines of the Humanities | |
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| Literature | |
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| Overview | |
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| Literature as History | |
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| The Basic Literary Impulse: Identity | |
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| The First Epic: Gilgamesh | |
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| Another Early Epic: Homer's Iliad | |
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| Poetry | |
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| Lyrical Poetry | |
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| The Sonnet | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Haiku | |
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| Simple Forms, Profound Meaning: | |
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| Religious Poetry | |
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| Modern Poetry | |
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| Archetypes in this Chapter | |
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| Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance | |
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| Poetry in Our Time | |
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| The Novel | |
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| Early Western Novels | |
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| An American Classic: Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby | |
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| The Short Story | |
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| Magazine Fiction | |
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| A Short Story Masterpiece: Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" | |
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| Epilogue | |