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READING
ASSIGNMENTS
Session
1 (1/26)
Niccolo Machiavelli THE PRINCE
“We
doubt whether any name in literary history be so generally
odious as that of the man whose character and writings
we now propose to consider.” Thomas
Macaulay
Session
2 (2/2)
THE PRINCE
“Every
Country hath its Machiavelli.”
Sir Thomas Brown
Session
3 (2/9)
THE PRINCE
“In
every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing;
democracies it is only the sacred thing.”
Session
4 (2/16)
Alan
Sillitoe SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING
“I'm me and nobody else; and whatever people think
I am or say I am, that's what I'm not, because they don't
know a bloody thing about me.”
Session
5 (2/23)
Wallace
Stevens A GOOD MAN HAS NO SHAPE
“The
whole race is a poet that writes down
The eccentric propositions of its fate.”
Vachel
Lindsay FACTORY WINDOWS ARE ALWAYS BROKEN
“It is the world's one crime its babes
grow dull,
Its poor are oxlike, limp and leaden-eyed.”
Edward
Arlington Robinson THE MILLER'S WIFE
“He
never was a fellow that said much,
And half of what he said
was not heard
By
many of us;”
Session
6 (3/1)
Herman
Melville BARTLEBY THE SCRIVNER
“Many sensible things banished from high life find an
asylum among the mob.”
Session
7 (3/8)
Wanda
Coleman THE SEAMSTRESS
“What must it be like? And what makes her battle it
so hard and never give in?”
John
Galsworthy QUALITY
“When he got an order, it took him such a time. People
won't wait.”
Session
8 (3/22)
Elizabeth
Gaskell NORTH AND SOUTH
“
I'll not listen to reason…Reason always means what someone
else has to
say."
Session
9 and 10 (3/29, 4/5)
James
Thurber THE CATBIRD SEAT
“Are
you scraping around the bottom of the pickle barrel?”
Hugh
Geeslin, Jr. A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE BOSS
“Can't
you see they're all alike?”
Session
11 (4/12)
Sinclair
Lewis BABBIT
“She
did her work with thoroughness of a mind which reveres details
and
never quite understands them.”
Session
12 (4/19)
Margaret
Walker FOR MY PEOPLE (poem)
“Let
a new earth rise. Let another world be born.”
Gwendolyn
Brooks THE POOL PLAYERS (poem)
“
People who have no children can be hard.”
Stephen
Crane MANY WORKMEN (poem)
“It
is grand,” they said; “
Session
13 (4/26)
Lorraine
Hansberry A RAISIN IN THE SUN
(Play)
“…at
one point, it was just inevitable that a problem of some
magnitude
which was racial would intrude itself, because
this is one of the reailties
of Negro life in America"
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