Summer Project

Just like "Julie & Julia," Aurora and I have a little blogging project that we will be doing this summer. In my obsession with everything Columbia (I mean, who takes a picture of Columbia St. and Broadway... in Vancouver?!), I was browsing the Lit Hum reading list and noticed how similar it was, in structure, to my Arts One class. Brushing off the bit of pride, it became a personal goal of mine to try and read through that list, a list towering alongside my Arts One education, a right Seneca and Sophocles. Well, in telling Aurora, we took the challenge together and, this summer, we will be mixing sharp wit with some good, old-fashion discussion. We also rose the stakes, seeing some of the selections as 'simple' (or rather seeing the Gospel week and looking back on our Catholic education), and decided to raise their books with ours along with a great film ending each section. So, without further ado, here is the tentative structure of our plan:

Section I (6 May - 20 May):
Homer Iliad
Hymn to Demeter
Homer Odyssey

Film:

Section II (21 May - 7 June):
[I needed to extend it because of my Hungarian class]
Herodotus Histories
Aeschylus The Oresteia
Sophocles Oedipus
Seneca Oedipus Tyrannus

Film:

Section III (8 June - 22 June):
Euripides Medea
Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War
Aristophanes Lysistrata
Plato Symposium

Film: Manhattan / Annie Hall [Woodie Allen]

Section IV (23 June - 7 July):
Book of Genesis
Book of Job
Gospel of Luke
Gospel of John
Selected works from the Quran
Selected works from the Torah

Film:

Section V (8 July - 22 July):
Virgil Aeneid
Augustine Confessions
Dante Inferno

Film:

Section VI (23 July - 6 August):
Boccaccio The Decameron
Montaigne Essays
Shakespeare King Lear

Film:

Section VII (7 August - 21 August):
Cervantes Don Quixote
Shakespear Hamlet
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice

Film:

Section VIII (22 August - 5 September):
Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment
Woolf To the Lighthouse
Nietzsche On the Geneology of Morality

Film:

Section IX (5 September - 19 September):
Sartre Being and Nothingness
Foucault Histoire de la Sexualité/History of Sexuality
Kant Critique of Pure Reason


Film: