Humanities and Arts Readings
All the following articles are by Jeanne Lombardo

Art and Architecture

• A Genius Cut Short: Vermeer’s Stylistic Path from The Milkmaid to The Guitar Player (And Where It Might Have Led…)
• Arts and Crafts: The Pursuit of Beauty and Functionality in the Twentieth Century
• The Desert Aesthetic of Frank Lloyd Wright: A Comparison of Taliesin West and Grady Gammage Auditorium
• Taoism and its Influence on the Arts of China
• Touching the Intangible: Zen and the Arts of Japan

History

• History: The Power of the Idea and the Idea of Power
• The Role of History and Historians in a World With No Center
• A Review of The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
• A Review of Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest by Matthew Restall

Literature

• Death and Beauty: Deliverance from Mortality in The Works of Thomas Mann and Yasunari Kawabata
• From Hero to Man: Euripides’s Alcestis
• From Mothers to Lovers: Desire, Power and Writing the Self in Duras’s The Lover and Lorde’s Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
• From Starvation to Suffocation: Extremes of Female Repression in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out
• Pale Mourner, Lost Discoverer: The Romantic Pilgrim and Transcendental Lover in Pablo Neruda’s Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
• Relativity, Tragic Farce and Language On Trial: A Post-Modern Perspective on Luigi Pirandello’s It Is So (If You Think So)
• The Personal Become Political: Nadine Gordimer’s Burger’s Daughter and Duong Thu Huong’s Paradise of the Blind
• Through a Cracked Looking-glass: The Search for the “Self of Selves” in James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
• Time and Solitude: Parameters of Being in Golding’s Lord of the Flies and Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude
• Woman as Witch in Anne Sexton’s “Her Kind”
• Yin Yang and Tao: The Self, the Other, and the Process in Toni Morrison’s Sula
• A Review of Sor Juana, Or The Traps of Faith by Octavio Paz
  

Music

• Invitation to Mozart’s “Minuet” No. 6 for Piano in D Major: An Inquiry into the Nature and Value of Music
• Mozart’s “Menuetto” and Trio from the String Quartet in D Major: On the Objective and Subjective Aspects of an Appreciation of Music
• From the “Pigtail” to the Lion’s Mane: Classical and Romantic Elements in Beethoven’s Symphony no. 8 in F Major
• The Romantic Dialectic of Robert Schumann’s Davidsbündlertänze
• The Divine Dissonances of a Yankee Maverick: Charles Ives, Symphony No.4