Recommended reading for Jessica Hines’ presentation on Mar. 7
Geoffrey Chaucer and the Compilation(s) of English Identity
No readings are required, but it would be helpful if everyone had taken a look through at least one or two of the early print editions of Chaucer. We recommend the following in particular (note that the latter two link to EEBO):
- William Caxton, ca. 1476. contains only the Canterbury Tales, but greatly influenced later editions: http://www.bl.uk/treasures/caxton/homepage.html
- William Thynne, 1532 (with updated editions in 1542 and 1545); first collected edition of of Chaucer’s works: http://gateway.proquest.com.proxy.lib.duke.edu/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&res_id=xri:eebo&rft_id=xri:eebo:citation:99842377
- Thomas Speght, 1602 (2nd edition; note this is from the reprinted 1687 edition); amended version of William Thynne’s addition with additional poems and glossary: http://gateway.proquest.com.proxy.lib.duke.edu/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&res_id=xri:eebo&rft_id=xri:eebo:citation:99842912
Recommended reading for discussion on Feb. 7, Desire and Conversion
A note on the reading. We’ll concentrate on chapters 1.1-10, 2.1, 3.1-2, 3.10-11, and 4.11, although a larger selection than this has been scanned for your benefit. Do refer to the table of contents and preface to get a clearer view of the essay’s structure. (Reading attached in two files because of size)
- MacIntyre – Ethics in Conflicts of Modernity_Part1
- MacIntyre – Ethics in Conflicts of Modernity_Part2
Recommended reading for discussion on Nov. 15, Translation as/and Conversion (it’s quite a lot, so please feel free to be selective about how much you read)
Excerpts from Translation: Theory and Practice: A Historical Reader, ed. Ástráður Eysteinsson and Daniel Weissbort (Oxford: OUP, 2006)
Critical Work:
- Intro from Rethinking Medieval Translation: Ethics, Politics, Theory, ed. Emma Campbell and Robert Mills (Suffolk: Brewer, 2012)
- Introduction & chapters 7–9 from Early Modern Cultures of Translation, ed. Karen Newman and Jane Tylus (Philadelphia: U Penn, 2015)
Recommended reading in preparation for Ryan McDermott’s visit and lecture:
- Excerpts, Martyrdom of St. Margaret Clitherow
- A True Report of the Life and Martyrdom of St. Margaret Clitherow
Recommended reading in preparation for David Como’s visit and lecture:
- 1 Intro to readings for Conversions group
- 2 Como Blown by the Spirit pp 1-9, 33-46, 469-473
- 3 Nuttall James Nayler Fresh Approach
- 4 Giles Creech information Duke
- 5 The Power of Love, 1643
Recommended readings (and art!) in preparation for Luke Bretherton’s Lecture:
- Apollo and Daphne by Antonio del Pollaiolo and Bernini’s sculpture
- Caravaggio’s The Conversion on the Way to Damascus
- Michel Foucault, The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the College de France, 1981-1982, trans., Graham Burchell (New York: Picador, 2005), ch. 11 (optional ch 13)
- Brittany Wilson, Unmanly Men: Refigurations of Masculinity in Luke-Acts (OUP, 2015), Ch. 5
- Cornel West, ‘Nihilism in Black America,’ Ch. 1 in Race Matters (1994)
- Rowan Willliams, “Europe, Faith and Culture” (2008)
Recommended readings for Samantha Arten’s “How to Sing Like a Protestant…” workshop:
- WBP 1562, all prefatory material Calvin, Letter to the Reader Luther, Preface to Symphoniae iucundae
Wetzel_Aug and Witt (James Wetzel, “Wittgenstein’s Augustine: The Inauguration of the Later Philosophy”)
Hadot_PWoL (Pierre Hadot, from Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault, chs. 3-4, and 11)
Augustine_Conf (Selections from Augustine, Confessions, books 1-2, 7, 8, and 10)
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Manion_Narrating Crus book Concl (Lee Manion, conclusion from Narrating the Crusades: Loss and Recovery in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature [Cambridge, 2014], 212-220 with notes)
Manion_Bacon on Holy War (Francis Bacon, An Advertisement Touching a Holy War [1629])
(Sir Gowther, a Middle English romance, available in its Middle English with glosses below, and in a prose translation in the second link)
http://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/text/laskaya-and-salisbury-middle-english-breton-lays-sir-gowther
http://www.sfsu.edu/~medieval/romances/gowther.html
**For Lee Manion’s article on Sir Gowther, please RSVP to astrid.giugni@duke.edu.
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Questier-Conversion-Politics-1580-1625_1 AND Questier-Conversion-Politics-1580-1625_2 (Michael Questier, chs. 1-3 of Conversion, Politics and Religion in England, 1580-1625 [Cambridge UP, 1996])
Donne_Sermon Feast Conv S Paul 1630 (John Donne, Sermon preached January 25, 1630, the Feast of St. Paul’s Conversion)
Donne_Sermon Feast Conv S Paul 1625 (*Optional reading*: Donne’s first sermon on the Feast of St. Paul’s Conversion, 1625)
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From Dante Alighieri, Commedia: Inferno 1-2; Purgatorio 30-31; Paradiso 31-33 (text available here: http://etcweb.princeton.edu/dante/index.html)
Freccero_on Dante001 (John Freccero, Dante: The Poetics of Conversion, ed. Rachel Jacoff [Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986], ch. 1, “The Prologue Scene”)
Michel de Montaigne, Essays, “Of Repentance” (text available here: http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/montaigne-essays-of-montaigne-vol-7)
Taylor_on Montaigne2004 (Charles Taylor, “Exploring ‘l’Humaine Condition,'” ch. 10 from Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity [Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989])
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Smith_sorry 1 (Nick Smith, Introduction and chs. 1-2 of I Was Wrong: The Meaning of Apologies [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008])
Woodes_Conflict Conscience (Nathaniel Woodes, The Conflict of Conscience [1581]) — apologies for the blackletter font!
Shakespeare’s Hamlet (Useful online edition here: http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/ham.html)
Searle_Illocutionary Acts (*Optional reading*: John Searle, “A Classification of Illocutionary Acts,” 1976)
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Gregory the Great (Pope Gregory I), from The Pastoral Care (Liber Regulae Pastoralis), BOOK III, Prologue, chs. 1-18 and 36-39 (available online here: http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3601.htm)
Dives and Pauper (Dives and Pauper, ed. P. H. Barnum, Early English Text Society nos. 275 and 280: 1.1, pp. 51-69 and 195-217; 1.2 pp. 33-57)
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Descartes, First Meditation, Meditations on First Philosophy, in The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, Volume II, trans. Cottingham, Stoothoff, and Murdoch, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984, pp. 12-15
John Freccero, “Autobiography and Narrative,” in Reconstructing Individualism: Autonomy, Individuality, and the Self in Western Thought, ed. Heller, Sosna, and Wellbery, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1986, pp. 16-29
Anthony Grafton, “Traditions of Conversion: Descartes and his Devil,” Doreen B. Townsend Center, Occasional Papers, no. 22, Berkeley: University of California, 2000
Background reading: Augustine, Confessions, 7.10.16 through 7.21.27 (a portion of this excerpt from book 7 is available in the PDF Augustine_Conf from the working group’s first meeting)
