Readings

Required Readings

The following books are required reading for the course. Please be sure to get the editions indicated below.

Buy at Amazon Hillerman, Tony. Sacred Clowns. New York, NY: HarperTorch, 1994. ISBN: 9780061092602.

Buy at Amazon Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. New York, NY: Dover Publications, 1994. ISBN: 9780486282114. (Download a version of the text from Project Gutenberg)

Buy at Amazon Marlowe, Christopher. Dr. Faustus. New York, NY: Dover Publications, 1994. ISBN: 9780486282084. (Download a version of the text from Project Gutenberg)

Buy at Amazon Banville, John. Kepler. New York, NY: Vintage, 1993. ISBN: 9780679743705.

Buy at Amazon Brecht, Bertolt. Galileo. New York, NY: Grove Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780802130594.

Buy at Amazon Doyle, Arthur Conan. A Study in Scarlet. New York, NY: Penguin (Non-Classics), 1982. ISBN: 9780140057072. (Download a version of the text from Project Gutenberg)

Buy at Amazon Hawthorne, Nathaniel. "The Birthmark," and "Rappacini's Daughter." Chapters in Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories. New York, NY: Dover Publications, 1992. ISBN: 9780486270609.

Buy at Amazon LeCarre, John. The Tailor of Panama. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 1997. ISBN: 9780345420435.

Buy at Amazon Gleick, James. Isaac Newton. New York, NY: Vintage, 2004. ISBN: 9781400032952.

Buy at Amazon Frayn, Michael. Copenhagen. New York, NY: Anchor Books, 2000. ISBN: 9780385720793.

Recommended Readings

These books are only recommended, not required.

Angier, Natalie. Natural Obsessions. New York, NY: Mariner Books, 1999.

White, Pepper. The Idea Factory: Learning to Think at MIT. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2001.

Bloom, Harold. "Introduction: What Is Genius?" Chapter in Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds. New York, NY: Warner Books, 2002.

Rich, Adrienne. "Planetarium." (Read a version of this text on American Poems)

Kidder, Tracy. Among Schoolchildren. New York, NY: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1982.

Edmundson, Mark. Teacher. New York, NY: Vintage, 2003.

Buy at Amazon Thomas, Lewis. "Becoming a Doctor." In The Eloquent Essay: An Anthology of Classic & Creative Nonfiction. Edited with an introduction by John Loughery. New York, NY: Persea Books, 2000, pp. 120-129. ISBN: 9780892552412.

Williams, William Carlos. "The Use of Force," and "Old Doc Rivers." Chapters in The Farmers' Daughters: The Collected Stories of William Carlos Williams. New York, NY: New Directions, 1961.

———. "Medicine," "Hell's Kitchen," and "First Years of Practice." Chapters in The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams. New York, NY: New Directions, 1967.

Selzer, Richard. Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1987.

———. Letters to a Young Doctor. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1982.

Films and Video

Wiene, Robert. The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari. 1920.

Christie, Agatha. "The Mirror Cracked From Side to Side." Miss Marple. Vol. 2. A&E Home Video, 1992.

Young, Terence. Dr. No. 1962. (The first James Bond film.)

Else, John. The Day After Trinity. 1980.

Kubrick, Stanley. Dr. Strangelove. 1964.