G147 E-Reading Academic Essays on Miscellaneous Authors Representing the Classics of the Western Canon: From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Nietzsche and the Very Canon Itself
Name of Book: Academic Essays on Miscellaneous Authors Representing the Classics of the Western Canon: From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Nietzsche and the Very Canon Itself
ISBN: 9781475116274
Publisher: Alcibiades Press
Year it was published: 2012
Author: Steven David Justin Sills
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Summary:
The following academic essays explore the works of various writers of the Western Canon
1. The Epic of Gilgamesh, Sumerian Literature
One Sentence Summary:
An examination of the Epic of Gilgamesh and how it became one of the great "classics."
2. The Greeks
One Sentence Summary:
A criticism of Edith Hamilton's ideas and thoughts towards Greek culture.
3. Aeschylus
One Sentence Summary:
Discussion of Aeschylus's Oresteia plays and their meanings on revenge
4. Plato
One Sentence Summary:
Description of Aristotle and Plato's reluctance to push the precepts to society at large.
5. Ancient and Renaissance Writers on Friendship
One Sentence Summary:
Description of how important friendship discussions were during the Renaissance
6. Homer
One Sentence Summary:
Describes some reactions to Homer's works.
7. The Spartans
One Sentence Summary:
Description of criticism of Paul Cartledge's work titled The Spartans.
8. Aristotle
One Sentence Summary:
Describes and goes into detail of Nichomachean Ethics that was written by Aristotle.
9. Boethius
One Sentence Summary:
Description of his work, how there has to be good despite the bad.
10. Dead Sea Scrolls
One Sentence Summary:
Description of the way Dead Sea Scrolls were written as well as what people thought.
11. Beowulf
One Sentence Summary:
Description and criticism of Beowulf and how its more epic than Gilgamesh.
12. The Pearl Poet
One Sentence Summary:
Description of the work which is opposite of The Green Knight
13. Dante
One Sentence Summary:
Description of how Dante coined the terms of heaven, purgatory and hell through his work
14. Beroul
One Sentence Summary:
Discussion of The Romance of Tristan and how it lacks morality.
15. Marie de France
One Sentence Summary:
Description of trying to bring significance to heavenly bodies.
16. Dreams
One Sentence Summary:
Description of how dreams were important in Medieval literature.
17. Chaucer
One Sentence Summary:
More about dreams and how they are used in The House of Fame as well as The Book of the Duchess.
18. The Renaissance
One Sentence Summary:
How Renaissance was important to the world
19. Petrarch to Shakespeare and Donne
One Sentence Summary:
How Petrarch is unique with a poem titled To His Mistress Going to bed.
20. Descartes
One Sentence Summary:
Description of Descartes' method and philosophy.
21. Machiavelli
One Sentence Summary:
Description of Machiavelli's work and what he introduces the world to.
22. Rabelais
One Sentence Summary:
Does he write ribald humor or are his things true literature.
23. Montaigne
One Sentence Summary:
Description of how sometimes Montaigne is brilliant but doesn't see the future.
24. Cervantes
One Sentence Summary:
Whether or not Don Quixote is crazy.
25. Marlowe
One Sentence Summary:
How he disabuses the notion that comedies are deadly and serious.
26. Shakespeare
One Sentence Summary:
How Prosper tries to end a cycle of being subservient and so forth.
27. Milton
One Sentence Summary:
How he is like in brevity.
28. Locke
One Sentence Summary:
How John Locke is an optimist.
29. Smith
One Sentence Summary:
How Smith saw things as well as how he moved away from the ancient philosophers.
30. Khaldun
One Sentence Summary:
The start of trying to make sense of the world.
31. Tocqueville
One Sentence Summary:
How Tocqueville saw America and a democratic man.
32. Rousseau
One Sentence Summary:
How Rousseau's work and a rebulta to Thomas Hobbes is a critique.
33. Smith
One Sentence Summary:
Description of how Smith goes against the evolving ethics.
34. Marx
One Sentence Summary:
Description of Marx's thoughts and ideas.
35. Kant
One Sentence Summary:
Description of why man can care for greater good.
36. Swift
One Sentence Summary:
Description of his work Gulliver and how to appreciate it.
37. Rousseau
One Sentence Summary:
More description of Rousseau's work.
38. Austen
One Sentence Summary:
Is there more to Austen's novels than only romance?
39. Wollstonecraft
One Sentence Summary:
Descriptions of her thinking.
40. Dashkova
One Sentence Summary:
Descriptions of her memoirs and how important she is.
41. Autobiography and Memoirs
One Sentence Summary:
Memoirs and autobiography in 18th century that were masterpieces.
42. Paine
One Sentence Summary:
Description and amazement at how he probes the truth of christian myths.
43. Gibbon
One Sentence Summary:
Description of how Gibbon tries to make his claims have a moral stance.
44. Dumas
One Sentence Summary:
Description and apperciation of Monte Cristo as a psychological portrait.
45. Dostoevsky
One Sentence Summary:
Description of how a man is haunted by his conscience
46. The Enlightenment
One Sentence Summary:
Description of how important the times are.
47. Levine Versus Bloom on the Western Canon
One Sentence Summary:
The Middle way between Levine and Bloom.
48. Nietzsche
One Sentence Summary:
Description of the will for power in the works.
49. Short Essays on Greek History
One Sentence Summary:
Description of some essays that talk about Greek History.
50. Communism and Literature
One Sentence Summary:
Comparison of Communism in reality vs the Pre-Bolshevik works.
2 out of 5
(0: Stay away unless a masochist 1: Good for insomnia 2: Horrible but readable; 3: Readable and quickly forgettable, 4: Good, enjoyable 5: Buy it, keep it and never let it go.)
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