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Online Texts for Program Readings: Spring Semester

This guide provides links to full-text resources and audio resources available for program readings.

Online Texts

This is a guide with links to full-text/audio resources of program works. Below is a list of databases with full-text sources and audio recordings. For help accessing these resources, please contact Catherine Hines, Library Director at 410-626-2550 or catherine.hines@sjc.edu.

Digital Loeb Classical Library Early Modern Texts Naxos Spoken Word Library Open Library (Internet Archive) Project Gutenberg

2024 Spring Semester Reading List

Date Reading Online Resources
January 8 - February 1 (essay writing period)

 

February 5 Melville: Benito Cereno
February 8 Nietzsche: Use and Disadvantage of History for Life
February 12

Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil

Books I-III

February 15

Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil

Books IV-VI

(see February 12 links)

February 19

Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil

Books VII-IX; Aftersong

(see February 12 links)

February 22 Conrad: Heart of Darkness
February 26

Freud: “Remembering, Repeating, and Working-Through”;

“Mourning and Melancholia”

“Remembering, Repeating, and Working-Through”

(also available in the bookstore in the "Sigmund Freud" class manual)

"Mourning and Melancholia"

(available in the bookstore in the "Sigmund Freud" class manual)

February 29 Freud: Beyond the Pleasure Principle
March 18

Dostoevski: The Brothers Karamazov

 

March 21

Dostoevski: The Brothers Karamazov

(see March 18 links)
March 25

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

Libretto

Recordings

March 28

Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse

“The Window”

April 1

Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse

“Time Passes”, “The Lighthouse”

(see March 28 links)

April 4

The Federalist: 78, 81 (first nine paragraphs);

Supreme Court Opinion: Marbury v. Madison and "The Rule Must Be Discharged";

Section 13 of The Judiciary Act of 1789;

State Court Opinion: Eakin v. Raub;

U.S. Constitution: Articles III and VI

The Federalist

Senior Seminar Readings (includes Marbury v. Madison, "The Rule Must Be Discharged," Eakin v. Raub)

(also available in the bookstore)

Marbury v. Madison

The Judiciary Act of 1789

Eakin v. Raub

U.S. Constitution

April 8

Dred Scott Decision;

Dissenting Opinion of Mr. Justice Curtis;

Lincoln-Douglass Debates

Lincoln: selected speeches;

Frederick Douglass: selected speeches;

(see Spring Semester Appendix for reading selections)

Senior Seminar Readings (includes Dred Scott Decision (as Scott v. Sandford), Dissenting Opinion of Mr. Justice Curtis, and Lincoln, Douglass, Booker T. Washington speeches)

(also available in the bookstore)

Dred Scott Decision / Frederick Douglass Speeches

Lincoln-Douglass Debates

(available in the bookstore)

Lincoln Speeches

April 11

Lincoln: selected speeches;

Frederick Douglass: selected speeches;

Booker T. Washington: selected speeches;

(see Spring Semester Appendix for reading selections)

(see April 8 links)

April 15

W. E. B. DuBois: The Souls of Black Folk 

(selections: see Spring Semester Appendix)

April 18

W. E. B. DuBois: The Souls of Black Folk 

(selections: see Spring Semester Appendix)

(see April 15 links)
April 22

Faulkner: Go Down Moses“The Bear”

April 25

De Beauvoir: The Second Sex

(selections: see Spring Semester Appendix)

April 29

De Beauvoir: The Second Sex 

(selections: see Spring Semester Appendix)

(see April 25 links)
May 2

Heidegger: Introduction to Metaphysics 

(selections: see Spring Semester Appendix)

May 6

Heidegger: Introduction to Metaphysics 

(selections: see Spring Semester Appendix)

(see May 2 links)

May 9 Plato: Phaedrus