Texts taught in Arts One Open include…
(Key: B = “Borderlines”; DQ = “Dangerous Questions”; EE = “Explorations and Encounters”; HF = “Hopes and Fears”; MM = “Monster in the Mirror”; RR = Remake/Remodel; RC = Repetition Compulsion)
- Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (RR, RC)
- Aharon Appelfed, Until the Dawn’s Light (RC)
- Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (EE, RR, RC) Wikisource
- John Banville, Doctor Copernicus (EE)
- Ibn Battutah, The Travels of Ibn Battutah (EE)
- Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (RR, RC)
- Jorge Luis Borges, Selected Stories (MM)
- Jorge Luis Borges, “Kafka and His Precursors” (RR)
- Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita (RR)
- Judith Butler, Antigone’s Claim (RR)
- Albert Camus, “The Myth of Sisyphus” (RR)
- Alejo Carpentier, The Kingdom of this World (RR)
- Aimé Césaire, The Tragedy of King Christophe (RR)
- J M Coetzee, Foe (MM)
- Christopher Columbus, The Four Voyages (MM)
- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (B, RR, RC)
- Francis Ford Coppola, Apocalypse Now (RR, RC)
- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (EE, MM) Wikisource
- T S Eliot, The Waste Land (MM) Wikisource
- Frantz Fanon, Black Skins / White Masks (RR, RC)
- Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (EE)
- Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality: An Introduction (DQ, RR)
- Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents (HF, MM, RC)
- Sigmund Freud, Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria plus “Femininity” and “Female Sexuality” (DQ, HF, RR)
- Genesis (DQ, HF, MM, RR, RC) Wikisource
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” (MM, RC) Wikisource
- Ian Hacking, Rewriting the Soul (RR)
- Felisberto Hernández, “The Daisy Dolls” (MM)
- Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (HF, MM, RR, RC) Wikisource
- Neil Jordan, The Crying Game (EE)
- Franz Kafka, “The Metamorphosis” (MM) Wikisource
- Ian Hacking, Rewriting the Soul (RR, RC)
- Immanuel Kant, “Conjectural Beginning of Human History” (DQ, RR)
- Immanuel Kant, “Perpetual Peace” (EE) Wikisource
- Margery Kempe, The Book of Margery Kempe (EE)
- Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz (B, MM)
- Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus (DQ, HF, RR) Wikisource
- Karl Marx, Writings on India (B, EE)
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto (EE) Marxists Internet Archive
- Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, Watchmen (MM, RC)
- Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals (DQ, HF, MM) Wikisource
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols: Or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer (RC)
- Thomas Paine, Rights of Man (RR) Wikisource
- Plato, “The Allegory of the Cave” (RR) The History Guide
- Plato, Gorgias (RR) Wikisource
- Plato, Republic (DQ, RC) Project Gutenberg
- Marco Polo, Travels of Marco Polo (EE) Wikisource
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality (B, DQ, EE (HF, MM, RR, RC) RR) Wikisource
- William Shakespeare, The Tempest (B, MM, RC) Wikisource
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (B, DQ, EE, HF, MM) Wikisource
- Sophocles, Antigone (RR, RC) Wikisource
- Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (RR, RC)
- Derek Walcott, Henri Christophe (RR)
- Mary Wollstonecraft, The Vindications: The Rights of Men and The Rights of Woman (RR)
- William Wordsworth, “Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802)” (RR, RC)
- William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads (RR, RC)
- Edgar Wright, Shawn of the Dead (RR, RC)
