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| Exploring The Humanities | |
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| the Humanities: A Shining Beacon | |
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| Overview of this Book | |
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| Gifts of the Humanities | |
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| Beauty | |
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| Beautiful Movement | |
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| Language | |
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| Ideas | |
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| Deeper Sense of the Past | |
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| Becoming an "Infinite" Person | |
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| Learning Objectives | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Topics for Writing and Discussion | |
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| the Humanities and Critical Thinking | |
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| Overview | |
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| Apollonian and Dionysian Responses to the Humanities | |
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| the Popcorn Syndrome | |
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| Empathy and Alienation | |
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| the Importance of Knowing when a Purely Emotional Response is Appropriate | |
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| the Importance of Responding Critically | |
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| Exercising the Mind | |
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| Solving Problems | |
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| Challenging Assumptions | |
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| Recognizing Contexts | |
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| A Guide to Critical Viewing: Professional and Personal | |
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| Role of the Professional Critic | |
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| the Personal Critical Response | |
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| Literalists and Figuratists | |
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| Literalist Speech | |
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| Figuratist Speech | |
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| Learning Objectives | |
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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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| Archetypes in Mythology | |
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| the Hero as World Myth | |
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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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| Gods as Human Beings | |
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| Myth as Explanation | |
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| Creation | |
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| the Natural World | |
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| Human Suffering | |
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| Cursed by Fate | |
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| Myths of Childhood | |
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| How We Get Our values | |
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| the Importance of Being Attractive and Rich | |
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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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| Learning Objectives | |
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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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| Literature as History | |
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| the Basic Literary Impulse: Identity | |
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| the First Epic: Gilgamesh | |
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| An Early Masterpiece: Homer's Iliad | |
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| Poetry | |
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| Lyrical Poetry | |
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| the Sonnet | |
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| Metaphors and Conceits | |
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| A Modern Love Sonnet | |
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| Haiku | |
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| Simple Forms, Profound Meaning: William Blake | |
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| Religious Poetry | |
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| Modernism Moves Forward: Emily Dickinson | |
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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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| the Novel in America | |
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| the Coming-of-Age Novel | |
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| The Short Story | |
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| Magazine Fiction | |
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| Epiphany | |
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| the Short Story Today: John Updike | |
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| Learning Objectives | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Topics for Writing and Discussion | |
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| Take a Closer Look: Collier's "The Chaser" | |
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| Art | |
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| The Need to Imitate | |
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| Let Me See! | |
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| Styles and Media | |
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| Creating Likeness in Different Styles | |
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| Classical Art | |
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| Medieval Art | |
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| Renaissance Art | |
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| A Rebellion against Perfect Likeness | |
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| Goya | |
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| Impressionism | |
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| Post-Impressionism: Van Gogh | |
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| Art as Alternation | |
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| the Sixty-Ninth Regiment Armory Show, 1913 | |
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| Cubism: Picasso and Braque | |
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| Unreal Realism | |
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| Superrealism | |
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| Camera and Computer Art | |
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| Pop Art | |
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| Performance, Prank, and Installation Art | |
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| Architecture | |
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| Religious Architecture | |
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| Secular Architecture | |
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| Frank Lloyd Wright | |
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| Frank O. Gehry | |
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| Learning Objectives | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Topics for Writing and Discussion | |
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| Take a Closer Look: Kahlo's "Self-Portrait on the Border Between Mexico and the United States" | |
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| Music | |
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| The Basic Elements of Music | |
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| Tone | |
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| the Scale | |
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| Rhythm | |
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| Melody | |
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| Harmony and the Orchestra | |
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| Silence | |
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| The Varieties of Musical Experience | |
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| A Bach Fugue | |
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| A Beethoven Symphony | |
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| Art Songs | |
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| Folk Songs | |
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| the Spiritual | |
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| Gospel Songs | |
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| Ragtime, Jazz, Blues | |
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| Popular Songs | |
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| Hip-Hop | |
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| Contemporary Non-Western Music | |
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| the Musical Avant-Garde | |
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| Learning Objectives | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Topics for Writing and Discussion | |
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| Take a Closer Look: DeBussy's "Clair de Lune" | |
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| Theater | |
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| Major Tragic and Serious Plays in Theater History | |
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| Greek Classical Theater and Elizabethan Theater: A Comparison | |
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| the Recognition Scene in Sophocles and Shakespeare | |
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| Aristotle on the Nature of Tragedy | |
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| Shakespeare and Dramatic Verse | |
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| Neoclassic Tragedy | |
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| Realism and Naturalism | |
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| Modern Genres and Conventions | |
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| Modern Tragedy | |
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| Melodrama and Tragedy | |
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| Comedy in Theatre History | |
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| Satire | |
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| Shakespeare's Comedy of Character | |
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| Farce | |
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| Contemporary Anti-Middle-Class Comedy | |
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| Contemporary Serious Comedy | |
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| Parody | |
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| Theater of Ideas | |
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| Ibsen | |
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| Shaw | |
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| Naturalism | |
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| Chekov | |
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| the Family Theme | |
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| A Theatrical Century of Dynamic Change | |
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| the Modern Theater of Ideas | |
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| Theatre of Cruelty | |
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| Racial Themes | |
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| Gay Rights | |
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| Backstage | |
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| the Director | |
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| Tablework | |
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| Learning Objectives | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Topics for Writing and Discussion | |
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| Take a Closer Look: Miller's "Death of a Salesman" | |
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| the Musical Stage: Opera, Music Drama, Dance | |
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| Early History of Musical Theater | |
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| Monteverdi | |
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| Classical and Baroque Opera | |
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| Mozart | |
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| Verdi and Romantic Opera | |
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| Wagner | |
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| Modern Opera and Operetta | |
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| Treemonisha | |
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| Showboat: An Operetta | |
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| Porgy and Bess | |
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| Other Modern Operas of Note | |
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| The Broadway Musical | |
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| Of Thee I Sing | |
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| The Musical Play | |
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| Pal Joey | |
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| Oklahoma! | |
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| West Side Story | |
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| Spring Awakening | |
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| Next to Normal | |
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| Dance | |
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| Early History | |
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| Ballet | |
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| French Ballet: Giselle | |
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| Russian Ballet: Tchaikovsky and Diaghilev | |
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| Modern Dance | |
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| Martha Graham | |
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| Other Schools of Modern Dance | |
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| Folkloric Dance | |
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| Learning Objectives | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Topics for Writing and Discussion | |
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| Take a Closer Look: La Boehme and Rent | |
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| Cinema | |
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| Conventions of Film | |
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| Sound | |
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| the Camera | |
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| Color | |
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| Time | |
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| Challenging Conventions | |
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| Some Early Milestones | |
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| Early Filmmakers: D.W. Griffith | |
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| Early Filmmakers: Sergei Eisenstein | |
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| Major Film Genres | |
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| Slapstick Comedy: Sennet and Chaplin | |
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| Farce: the Marx Brothers | |
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| Enduring Appeal of the Animated Film | |
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| Film Noir | |
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| Romantic Comedy | |
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| the Screen Musical | |
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| the Western | |
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| Social Issues | |
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| Documentaries | |
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| Fictionalized Biography | |
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| Loosely Based on the Original | |
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| Two American Film Classics | |
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| Citizen Kane | |
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| Casablanca | |
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| The Film Auteur | |
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| Ingmar Bergman | |
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| Federico Fellini | |
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| Alfred Hitchcock | |
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| Akira Kurosawa | |
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| Stanley Kubrick | |
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| Francis Ford Coppola | |
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| A Word of Critical Viewing | |
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| Learning Objectives | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Topics for Writing and Discussion | |
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| Take a Closer Look: Saving Private Ryan | |
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| Themes In The Humanities | |
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| Religion | |
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| Overview | |
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| The Belief in Many Gods | |
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| Egypt | |
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| Hinduism | |