Recommended books by Tom Bertonneau (bio following):
Professor Bertonneau recommends the following titles that he
teaches in his Western Heritage I & II classes. For his full syllabus with detailed rationale, click the
link at the end of the titles.
English 210 - Western Heritage I
From Homer to Saint Augustine and Beyond
Homer, Odyssey.
Translated by Palmer.
Dover. ISBN 0486406547
Plato, Symposium &
Phaedrus. Translated by Jowett.
Dover. ISBN: 0486277984
Vergil, Aeneid.
Translated by Billson.
Dover. ISBN 0486287491
Apuleius, The Golden Ass.
Translated by E. J. Kenney.
Penguin. ISBN 0140435905
Augustine, Confessions.
Translated by Outler.
Dover. ISBN 0486424669
J. F. Webb (Editor), The
Age of Bede. Penguin. ISBN-13: 978-0140447279
Anonymous (Thirteenth Century
Icelandic - translated by Herman Palsson), Hrafnkel's Saga and other Stories. Penguin. ISBN 0-14-044238-3
Colin McEvedy, The New
Penguin Atlas of Ancient History. Penguin. ISBN 0140513485
(in
conjunction with the other titles throughout the semester)
English 211 - Western Heritage II:
Feudalism, Christendom,
Exploration, and Settlement
from the Ninth to the Nineteenth Century
Anonymous (Icelandic), Hrafnkel's
Saga and other short Icelandic
sagas - Original Language: Old West
Norse, written down in the Thirteenth Century. [Genre: Prose Narrative (Saga)]
Anonymous (Icelandic), The
Vinland Sagas - Original
Language: Old West Norse, written down in the
Thirteenth Century. [Genre: Prose
Narrative (Saga)]
Anonymous (French), Quest
of the Holy Grail - Original
Language: French, written down in the late Thirteenth
or early Fourteenth Century.
[Genre: Prose Narrative (Romance)]
Jean de Joinville (French;
born 1225), The Life of Saint Louis (A Chronicle of the Sixth & Seventh Crusades)- Original Language: French, written down around
1280. [Genre: Chronicle]
Luis Vaz de Camoes
(Portuguese; 1525 - 1580), The Lusiads - Original Language: Portuguese, published
in Lisbon in 1572. [Genre: Verse
Epic]
Samuel Johnson (English; 1709
- 1784), Rasselas - Original Language: English, published in London in... [Genre: Prose Fiction (Novella) - also Satire]
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(Swiss/French; 1712 - 1778), Discourse on Inequality - Original Language: French,
published in Geneva in 1754.
[Genre: Philosophical Essay]
Herman Melville (American;
1819 - 1891), Typee - Original Language: English, published in New York
in 1846. [Genre: Prose Fiction with Autobiographical Basis (Novel)]
Books by Professor Bertonneau:
The Truth is Out There BIO
Tom Bertonneau, who teaches English at SUNY Oswego, earned his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the Program in Comparative Literature, UCLA. in 1990. He is the author of three books - most recently The Truth is Out There (with Kim Paffenroth), a study of the religious dimension of science fiction. He has published over fifty scholarly articles and much journalism, and is a regular contributor to Anthropoetics, Praesidium, Modern Age, Intercollegiate Review, and The University Bookman.
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