New York Review of Books Syllabus 2023a

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New York Review of Books Syllabus
All Classes

Spring 2023

Robert André LaFleur                                              Office Hours:

Morse Ingersoll 206                                                  Monday          11:45-12:30
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lafleur@beloit.edu                                                      ...or by appointment (just send               

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We will be reading .pdf essays from the archives

of the New York Review of Books (hereafter NYRB). 

I will send the entire sequence near the beginning of the term. 

Please store them in a place (computer file, backup disk, etc.)

that will make it convenient to access each week

Week Three

(6 February)

Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
Alan Ryan, "They Who Would Be Immortal (Jill LePore)

Week Four 

(13 February)

Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
Jasper Griffin, "The Father of it All" (David Grene on Herodotus)

Week Five  
(20 February)

Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
Jonathan Spence, "What Confucius Said" (Simon Leys's translation)

Week Six
(27 February)

Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
Colin McGinn, "Sign Language" (Umberto Eco on Kant)

Week Seven

(6 March)

Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
Frederic Wakeman, "The Monkey King" (Anthony Yu's translation)

Week Ten

(27 March)

Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
D.P. Walker, "The Originality of Montaigne" (Donald Frame on Montaigne)
 

Week Eleven

(3 April)

Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
Anthony Quinton, "Spreading Hegel's Wing's" (Multiple works on Hegel)

Week Twelve 

(10 April)

Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
Peter Brooks, "Flaubert: The Tragic Historian" (Biography of Flaubert)
 

Week Thirteen

(17 April)

Review the "Questions to Ask of Every NYRB Essay" before each week's reading
Frederic Wakeman, "The Genius of the Red Chamber" (Davide Hawkes)