Writing the Essay: Art In the World

• "Why Charlie Kaufman Is Us" by David Ulin
• "Kafka's Heir" by Anthony Lane
• "Tradition and the Individual Talent" by T.S. Eliot
• "Representation" by W.T.J. Mitchell
• "Buster Keaton" by Anthony Lane
• Chapters 7-9 from "Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love: A Journey To the End of Taste" by Carl Wilson
• "Skewing Lines: On Pervs, Pearls and Sex Dolls" by Lily Azrielant
• "Experiencing Places" by Tony Hiss (unfinished)

Human Society & Culture

• "Culture" by Raymond Williams
• "The Science of Culture" by Edward Tylor
• "The Idea of Primitive Society" by Adam Kuper
• "The Study of Geography" by Franz Boas
• "The Potlatch" by Franz Boas (unfinished)
• "Argonauts of the Western Pacific" by Bronislaw Malinowski (unfinished)
• "Coming of Age In Samoa" by Margaret Mead
• "The Gift" by Marcel Mauss
• "The Time of the King" by Jacques Derrida
• "On Misrecognition" by Pierre Bourdieu
• "Number Our Days" by Barbara Myerhoff (ch. 1-2)
• "Structures and Habitus" by Pierre Bourdieu (unfinished)
• "The Relation of Habitual Thought and Behavior To Language" by Benjamin Lee Whorf (unfinished)
• "The Task of the Translator" by Walter Benjamin

International Cinema: 1960s to Present

• "Godard, Women and the Outsider" by James Monaco
• "The Great Tetralogy" by Seymour Chatman
• "The Taunt of the Gods: Reflections on _Woman In the Dunes_" by Linda C. Ehrlich and Antonio Santos
• "Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge: BFI Classics" by Anupama Chopra (unfinished)
• "Abbas Kiarostami" by Jonathan Rosenbaum (unfinished)

Introduction to Comparative Literature: "Is There An Other?"

• "Agamemnon" by Aeschylus
• "Antigone" by Sophocles
• "Oedipus the King" by Sophocles
• Book X from "Plato's Republic"
• "The Race of Bees" from Virgil's "Georgic"
• "The Mirror Stage" by Jacques Lacan
• "B. Self-Consciousness" from Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (unfinished)
• "The Thing" by Martin Heidegger
• "Negation" by Sigmund Freud
• "The Antimony of Pure Reason" by Immanuel Kant (unfinished)
• "The Purloined Letter" by Edgar Allan Poe
• "The Critique of Practical Reason" by Immanuel Kant (unfinished)
• "The Face" from Ethics and Infinity by Emmanuel Levinas
• "Blood Wedding" by Federico García Lorca