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The Art of Being Human The Humanities as a Technique for Living Plus MyHumanitiesKit -- Access Card Package

by: Janaro, Richard; Altshuler, Thelma

The Art of Being Human The Humanities as a Technique for Living Plus MyHumanitiesKit -- Access Card Package

by: Janaro, Richard; Altshuler, Thelma

ISBN 13:
9780205207381
ISBN 10:
0205207383
Edition: 10th
Format: Package
Copyright: 07/14/2011
Publisher: Pearson
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Summary

The Art of Being Human, Tenth Edition, introduces students to the ways in which the humanities can broaden their perspectives, enhance their ability to think critically, and enrich their lives. This well-respected book has been lauded for its scope, accessibility, and writing style. Featuring a unique topical organization, Part I introduces the humanities as a technique for living, by connecting the arts to students' daily lives, utilizing the humanities to foster critical thinking skills, and examining their mythic origins. Part II explores the individual genres of literature, art, music, theater, musical theater, and cinema. Part III looks at provocative themes in the humanities: religion, morality, happiness, love, life and death, nature, and freedom.

I. EXPLORING THE HUMANITIES

1. The Humanities: A Shining Beacon

Overview of this Book

Gifts of the Humanities

Beauty

Beautiful Movement

Language

Ideas

Deeper Sense of the Past

Becoming an “Infinite” Person

Learning Objectives

Key Terms

Topics for Writing and Discussion

2. The Humanities and Critical Thinking

Overview

Apollonian and Dionysian Responses to the Humanities

The Popcorn Syndrome

Empathy and Alienation

The Importance of Knowing when a Purely Emotional Response is Appropriate

The Importance of Responding Critically

Exercising the Mind

Solving Problems

Challenging Assumptions

Recognizing Contexts

A Guide to Critical Viewing: Professional and Personal

Role of the Professional Critic

The Personal Critical Response

Literalists and Figuratists

Literalist Speech

Figuratist Speech

Learning Objectives

Key Terms

Topics for Writing and Discussion

3. Myth and the Origin of the Humanities

Archetypes in Mythology

The Hero as World Myth

The Power of Words

The Power of Numbers

The Circle

The Journey

The Garden

Gods as Human Beings

Myth as Explanation

Creation

The Natural World

Human Suffering

Cursed by Fate

Myths of Childhood

How We Get Our values

The Importance of Being Attractive and Rich

The Importance of Names

The Dark Side

Popular Mythology

Common Sayings

How Myth Influences the Humanities

Learning Objectives

Key Terms

Topics for Writing and Discussion

II. DISCIPLINES OF THE HUMANITIES

4. Literature

Literature as History

The Basic Literary Impulse: Identity

The First Epic: Gilgamesh

An Early Masterpiece: Homer’s Iliad

Poetry

Lyrical Poetry

The Sonnet

Metaphors and Conceits

A Modern Love Sonnet

Haiku

Simple Forms, Profound Meaning: William Blake

Religious Poetry

Modernism Moves Forward: Emily Dickinson

Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance

Poetry in Our Time

The Novel

Early Western Novels

The Novel in America

The Coming-of-Age Novel

The Short Story

Magazine Fiction

Epiphany

The Short Story Today: John Updike

Learning Objectives

Key Terms

Topics for Writing and Discussion

Take a Closer Look: Collier’s “The Chaser”

5. Art

The Need to Imitate

Let Me See!

Styles and Media

Creating Likeness in Different Styles

Classical Art

Medieval Art

Renaissance Art

A Rebellion against Perfect Likeness

Goya

Impressionism

Post-Impressionism: Van Gogh

Art as Alternation

The Sixty-Ninth Regiment Armory Show, 1913

Cubism: Picasso and Braque

Unreal Realism

Superrealism

Camera and Computer Art

Pop Art

Performance, Prank, and Installation Art

Architecture

Religious Architecture

Secular Architecture

Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank O. Gehry

Learning Objectives

Key Terms

Topics for Writing and Discussion

Take a Closer Look: Kahlo’s “Self-Portrait on the Border Between Mexico and the United States”

6. Music

The Basic Elements of Music

Tone

The Scale

Rhythm

Melody

Harmony and the Orchestra

Silence

The Varieties of Musical Experience

A Bach Fugue

A Beethoven Symphony

Art Songs

Folk Songs

The Spiritual

Gospel Songs

Ragtime, Jazz, Blues

Popular Songs

Hip-Hop

Contemporary Non-Western Music

The Musical Avant-Garde

Learning Objectives

Key Terms

Topics for Writing and Discussion

Take a Closer Look: DeBussy’s “Clair de Lune”

7. Theater

Major Tragic and Serious Plays in Theater History

Greek Classical Theater and Elizabethan Theater: A Comparison

The Recognition Scene in Sophocles and Shakespeare

Aristotle on the Nature of Tragedy

Shakespeare and Dramatic Verse

Neoclassic Tragedy

Realism and Naturalism

Modern Genres and Conventions

Modern Tragedy

Melodrama and Tragedy

Comedy in Theatre History

Satire

Shakespeare’s Comedy of Character

Farce

Contemporary Anti-Middle-Class Comedy

Contemporary Serious Comedy

Parody

Theater of Ideas

Ibsen

Shaw

Naturalism

Chekov

The Family Theme

A Theatrical Century of Dynamic Change

The Modern Theater of Ideas

Theatre of Cruelty

Racial Themes

Gay Rights

Backstage

The Director

Tablework

Learning Objectives

Key Terms

Topics for Writing and Discussion

Take a Closer Look: Miller’s “Death of a Salesman”

8. The Musical Stage: Opera, Music Drama, Dance

Early History of Musical Theater

Monteverdi

Classical and Baroque Opera

Mozart

Verdi and Romantic Opera

Wagner

Modern Opera and Operetta

Treemonisha

Showboat: An Operetta

Porgy and Bess

Other Modern Operas of Note

The Broadway Musical

Of Thee I Sing

The Musical Play

Pal Joey

Oklahoma!

West Side Story

Spring Awakening

Next to Normal

Dance

Early History

Ballet

French Ballet: Giselle

Russian Ballet: Tchaikovsky and Diaghilev

Modern Dance

Martha Graham

Other Schools of Modern Dance

Folkloric Dance

Learning Objectives

Key Terms

Topics for Writing and Discussion

Take a Closer Look: La Boehme and Rent

9. Cinema

Conventions of Film

Sound

The Camera

Color

Time

Challenging Conventions

Some Early Milestones

Early Filmmakers: D.W. Griffith

Early Filmmakers: Sergei Eisenstein

Major Film Genres

Slapstick Comedy: Sennet and Chaplin

Farce: The Marx Brothers

Enduring Appeal of the Animated Film

Film Noir

Romantic Comedy

The Screen Musical

The Western

Social Issues

Documentaries

Fictionalized Biography

Loosely Based on the Original

Two American Film Classics

Citizen Kane

Casablanca

The Film Auteur

Ingmar Bergman

Federico Fellini

Alfred Hitchcock

Akira Kurosawa

Stanley Kubrick

Francis Ford Coppola

A Word of Critical Viewing

Learning Objectives

Key Terms

Topics for Writing and Discussion

Take a Closer Look: Saving Private Ryan

III. THEMES IN THE HUMANITIES

10. Religion

Overview

The Belief in Many Gods

Egypt

Hinduism

Polytheism in Greece and Rome

Native American Religions

The Belief in an Impersonal Divinity

How Hinduism led to Buddhism

Buddhism

Taoism

Socrates and Plato

Aristotle’s Unmoved Mover

The Belief in One God

Judaism

Christianity

Islam

The Protestant Reformation

Doubt

Agnosticism

Atheism

Religion and the Arts

Learning Objectives

Key Terms

Topics for Writing and Discussion

11. Morality

Morality and the Arts

Morality and Philosophy

Moral Systems

The Morality of Self-Interest

Glaucon versus Socrates

The Philosopher King

Government and Self-Interest

Rebellions against Self-Interest

Satirical Praise for Self-Interest

“Enlightened” Self-Interest: Machiavelli

“Enlightened” Self-Interest: Thomas Hobbes

Econonomics and Self-Interest: Adam Smith

Econonomics and Self-Interest: Ayn Rand

Transcending Self-Interest: Altruism

A Philosophical Defense of Altruism

Utilitarianism: Bentham and Mill

Bentham’s Moral Mathematics

Utilitarianism Modified: John Stuart Mill

The Categorical Imperative of Immanuel Kant

Religion and Morality

The Influence of Dante and Milton on Western Morality

The Morality of Work

Studs Terkel on Work

Moral Relativism

The Global View

Feminist Morality

Learning Objectives

Key Terms

Topics for Writing and Discussion

12. Happiness

Hedonism: Happiness as Pleasure

Literary Hedonism: Poetry of Seduction

Hedonist Assumptions

Hedonism Reconsidered

Epicureanism: Happiness is Avoiding Pain

Epicurean Assumptions

Epicureanism Reconsidered

Stoicism: Happiness as a Strategy for Survival

Stoic Assumptions

Stoicism Reconsidered

Aristotle on Happiness

Reason and Virtue

Happiness A Government’s Responsibility

Aristotle Reconsidered

The Humanities and Unhappiness

Models of the Happy Life

Anne Frank

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Gandhi

Buddhist Paths to Happiness

The Dalai Lama

Learning Objectives

Key Terms

Topics for Writing and Discussion

13. Love

Body and Soul

Eros

Lust in Classical Myth

Lust on the Shakespearean Stage

Eros in Eastern Culture

Adultery

Agape

The Platonic Ideal

Platonic Love Evaluated

Family Love

Family Conflicts

The Family in Religion

Matriarchs and Patriarchs

Friendship

Romantic Love

Mariolatry

Romance and Chivalry

Dante and the Divine Comedy

Love as Amusement

Courtly Love

Love as a Game

Love and Conflict

Mirabell and Millamant

Tracy and Hepburn

Love and Marriage

The Victorian Model

New Versions

Love in a Time of Health Hazards

Love and Older People

Imagining a World in Which Only Sex Exists

Learning Objectives

Key Terms

Topics for Writing and Discussion

14. Life-Affirmation

Images of Death

A Memorable Heroic Image

Death in the Popular Arts

Dearth at a Distance

Catastrophes

Strategies for Dealing with Death

Death in Real Terms

Avoidance of Death Talk

Humor

Magnifying and Beautifying Death

The Medicalization of Death

Death in Literature

Death and Children

Facing the Inevitable Before It Happens

Death in Music

Death in Philosophy

Death and An Afterlife

Death and Fate

Symbolic Death

Unworth

Symbolic Suicide

Symbolic Murder

Models of Life Affirmation

The Phoenix

There is Only Now

Reinventing Ourselves

Guilt and Forgiveness

Learning Objectives

Key Terms

Topics for Writing and Discussion

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15. Nature

Overview

Romantic Views of Nature

Early Warnings

The Forest of Arden

The Decay of Nature

The Urban Attitude

Thoreau

Nature as an Awesome Force

The Frankenstein Monster

Nature and Native Americans

Joseph Conrad

Inconveniences

Learning Objectives

Key Terms

Topics for Writing and Discussion

16. Freedom

Overview

Determinism: The View that all People are Limited in their Choices

Past and Present Limitations

Institutional Determinism

Economic Determinism

Character Consistency

Behaviorism

Genetics

Sociobiology

Free Will

A Pessimist’s Definition of the Will

Regret and Relief as Signs of Free Will

Psychoanalysis: Freedom through the Conscious Ego

Existentialism

Religious existentialism

Secular existentialism

Freedom within Limitations

Learning Objectives

Key Terms

Topics for Writing and Discussion

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