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Yale Directed Studies Reading List

Directed Studies offers a select group of first-year students an intense interdisciplinary introduction to some of the seminal texts of Western civilization. Working in discussion seminars with top Yale faculty, DS students learn to analyze complex texts and to put them into conversation with one another across time and genre.
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Omeros (Derek Walcott)
Omeros
1
Derek Walcott
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
To the Lighthouse
2
Virginia Woolf
Swann's Way (Marcel Proust)
Swann's Way
3
Marcel Proust
Hadji Murad (Leo Tolstoy)
Hadji Murad
4
Leo Tolstoy
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
5
Gustave Flaubert
Faust (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Faust
6
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth
Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth
7
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
Paradise Lost
8
John Milton
King Lear (William Shakespeare)
King Lear
9
William Shakespeare
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes) (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
10
Miguel De Cervantes
Petrarch--Lyric Poems and Selections
Petrarch--Lyric Poems and Selections
11
The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
The Divine Comedy
12
Dante Alighieri
The Aeneid (Virgil)
The Aeneid
13
Virgil
Metamorphoses (Ovid)
Metamorphoses
14
Ovid
The New Oxford Annotated Bible
The New Oxford Annotated Bible
15
If Not, Winter (Sappho)
If Not, Winter
16
Sappho
Frogs and Other Plays (Aristophanes)
Frogs and Other Plays
17
Aristophanes
Euripides -- Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus, the Trojan Women, Electra, T
Euripides -- Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus, the Trojan Women, Electra, T
18
Oresteia (Aeschylus)
Oresteia
19
Aeschylus
Homer -- The Iliad
Homer -- The Iliad
20
Homer's Odyssey
Homer's Odyssey
21
Fear and Trembling (Soren Kierkegaard)
Fear and Trembling
22
Soren Kierkegaard
Utilitarianism (John Stuart Mill)
Utilitarianism
23
John Stuart Mill
The Phenomenology of Spirit
The Phenomenology of Spirit
24
Kant Critique of Pure Reason
Kant Critique of Pure Reason
25
A Treatise of Human Nature (David Hume)
A Treatise of Human Nature
26
David Hume
Hume's Enquirey Concerning Human Understanding
Hume's Enquirey Concerning Human Understanding
27
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
28
Descartes' Meditations
Descartes' Meditations
29
Summa Theologica (Thomas Aquinas)
Summa Theologica
30
Thomas Aquinas
Lucretius--On the Nature of Things
Lucretius--On the Nature of Things
31
Plato's Republic
Plato's Republic
32
The Dialogues of Plato
The Dialogues of Plato
33
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
34
Civilization and Its Discontents (Sigmund Freud)
Civilization and Its Discontents
35
Sigmund Freud
The Souls of Black Folk (W.E.B. Du Bois)
The Souls of Black Folk
36
W.E.B. Du Bois
On the Genealogy of Morals
On the Genealogy of Morals
37
Karl Marx: Selected Writings (David McLellan)
Karl Marx: Selected Writings
38
David McLellan
Democracy in America (Alexis De Tocqueville)
Democracy in America
39
Alexis De Tocqueville
Perpetual Peace (Immanuel Kant)
Perpetual Peace
40
Immanuel Kant
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