School's over, and I have to get some stuff to read this summer. Patty had some great advice: "just read all the books you own that you haven't read, you idiot." ( So here's a good starting list: )
Reading, Tocqueville, "Democracy in America"; and Aristotle, "Nicomachean Ethics" together might be a decent double-bill... both of them influenced MacIntyre's "After Virtue" significantly.
I've been wanting to do a "double bill" for some time. Was hoping to try The Odyssey next to Joyce's Ulysses, but I decided to stay uncrazy instead. Thanks for the suggestion---I've heard other people talking about MacIntyre's book and might even get myself a copy (from the library, of course).
Hesiod's Theogony is a nice, quick read. May I suggest that you also read his "Works and Days"? That is, if you haven't already. Ovid is also wonderful wonderful.
I'm looking forward to it. I've read Works and Days but I might stumble across a copy of Hesiod that has both of them, and in that case I don't see the harm in reading both.
If you haven't already, you could check out Stanley Fish's Is There a Text in this Class, a collection of essays in which you can clearly see the development of his thought from Affective Stylistics to Interpretive Communities.
And if I can tempt you to wander a little afield from the canon, I strongly reccommend the graphic novel series Sandman by Neil Gaiman. Also interesting (although less obviously "literary") is Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Alan Moore's Watchmen.
A few days before the Judas Gospel hit the front page I read a Borges short story about Judas as Jesus in a collection called Labyrinths that you might want to add to your list if you haven't read it yet. He writes perversely believable essays (perverse because he tends to invent his entire genealogy of self mocking citations and references) and philosophical stories.
Umberto Eco wrote Foucault's Pendulum and I recommend it. Those are lighter reads than Ovid, but hysterically funny for the most part.
The Idiot, too...the poor guy, but I remember falling off my chair laughing the first time I read it. (Seconded.) And now I just might read it again.
I think I remember talking to you once or twice, but I don't think we ever really got to talking. If you're interested, my contact info is smeared all over my user profile, and I wouldn't mind getting to know you again. Now that school's out I have plenty of free time.
Sorry, I went on a looooong vacation shortly after posting that. Thought I'd catch up in a more timely manner with all my Email and such, but... apparently, I didn't!
So... how have you been? Still want to try to get to know each other again?
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If you haven't already, you could check out Stanley Fish's Is There a Text in this Class, a collection of essays in which you can clearly see the development of his thought from Affective Stylistics to Interpretive Communities.
And if I can tempt you to wander a little afield from the canon, I strongly reccommend the graphic novel series Sandman by Neil Gaiman. Also interesting (although less obviously "literary") is Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Alan Moore's Watchmen.
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How embarrassing.
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Umberto Eco wrote Foucault's Pendulum and I recommend it. Those are lighter reads than Ovid, but hysterically funny for the most part.
The Idiot, too...the poor guy, but I remember falling off my chair laughing the first time I read it. (Seconded.) And now I just might read it again.
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Comment back if you remember me, I guess?
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So... how have you been? Still want to try to get to know each other again?
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