E491 COMBINED 2003-2007<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nGorgias | Plato | Aristotle | Horace | Longinus | Augustine | Aquinas | Boccaccio | de Pizan | Giraldi | du Bellay | Sidney | Pope | Johnson | Corneille | Shaftesbury | de Sta\u00ebl | Kant | Hegel | Wordsworth | Coleridge | Emerson | Poe | Marx | Baudelaire | Arnold | Nietzsche | de Saussure<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SCHEDULE: WORKS DISCUSSED ON DATES INDICATED<\/h2>\n\n\n\nWEEK 1<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
08\/25. Introduction to class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
WEEK 2<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
09\/01. Gorgias of Leontini, Plato. Gorgias\u2019 \u201cEncomium of Helen\u201d (29-33). Plato\u2019s Republic,<\/em> from Books II, III, VII, X (49-81), Phaedrus<\/em> (81-86).<\/p>\n\n\n\nWEEK 3<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
09\/08. Aristotle. Poetics<\/em> (86-117).<\/p>\n\n\n\nWEEK 4<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
09\/15. Horace and Longinus. Horace\u2019s Ars Poetica<\/em> (121-35). From Longinus\u2019 On Sublimity<\/em> (135-55).<\/p>\n\n\n\nWEEK 5<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
09\/22. St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Giovanni Boccaccio, Christine de Pizan. From Augustine\u2019s On Christian Doctrine<\/em> (185-92); from The Trinity<\/em> (192-96). From Aquinas\u2019 Summa Theologica<\/em> (240-46). From Boccaccio\u2019s Genealogy of the Gentile Gods<\/em> (253-263). From de Pizan\u2019s Book of the City of Ladies<\/em> (263-71).<\/p>\n\n\n\nWEEK 6<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
09\/29. Giambattista Giraldi, Joachim du Bellay, Sir Philip Sidney. From Giraldi\u2019s Discourse on the Composition of Romances<\/em> (273-79). From du Bellay\u2019s Defence and Illustration of the French Language<\/em> (281-90). Sidney\u2019s \u201cAn Apology for Poetry\u201d (326-40, 348-50).<\/p>\n\n\n\nWEEK 7<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
10\/06. Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson. Pope\u2019s \u201cAn Essay on Criticism\u201d (438-58). Johnson\u2019s The Rambler<\/em> No. 4 \u201cOn Fiction\u201d (458-66); from Rasselas<\/em> (466-68); \u201cPreface\u201d to Shakespeare<\/em> (468-80).<\/p>\n\n\n\nWEEK 8<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
10\/13. Pierre Corneille, the Earl of Shaftesbury, Germaine de Sta\u00ebl. Corneille\u2019s \u201cOf the Three Unities of Action, Time, and Place\u201d (363-79)\/ Shaftesbury\u2019s \u201cSensus Communis Etext.\u201d De Sta\u00ebl\u2019s \u201cEssay on Fictions\u201d and \u201cOn Women Writers\u201d (594-610).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
WEEK 9<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
10\/20. Immanuel Kant. Critique of Judgment,<\/em> from Book I: \u201cAnalytic of the Beautiful\u201d (499-518); from Book II: \u201cAnalytic of the Sublime\u201d (519-36).<\/p>\n\n\n\nWEEK 10<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
10\/27. Georg Hegel. \u201cMaster-Slave Dialectic\u201d from Phenomenology of Mind<\/em> (626-36); \u201cIntroduction\u201d from Lectures on Fine Art<\/em> (636-45).<\/p>\n\n\n\nWEEK 11<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
11\/03. William Wordsworth, S. T. Coleridge. Wordsworth\u2019s \u201cPreface\u201d to Lyrical Ballads, 1802<\/em>\u201d (645-68). From Coleridge\u2019s The Statesman\u2019s Manual<\/em> (668-74); from Biographia Literaria<\/em> (674-82).<\/p>\n\n\n\nWEEK 12<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
11\/10. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe. Emerson\u2019s \u201cThe American Scholar\u201d (717-21); \u201cThe Poet\u201d (724-39). Poe\u2019s \u201cThe Philosophy of Composition\u201d (739-50).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
WEEK 13<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
11\/17. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. From Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844<\/em> (759-67); from The German Ideology<\/em> (767-69); from The Communist Manifesto<\/em> (769-73); from Grundrisse<\/em> (773-74); from \u201cPreface\u201d to A Contribution…<\/em>\u201d (774-76); from Capital,<\/em> Vol. 1, Ch. 1 \u201cCommodities\u201d (776-83).<\/p>\n\n\n\nWEEK 14<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
11\/24. Thanksgiving holiday; no classes all week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
WEEK 15<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
12\/01. Charles Baudelaire, Matthew Arnold. From Baudelaire\u2019s The Painter of Modern Life<\/em> (789-802). Arnold\u2019s \u201cThe Function of Criticism at the Present Time\u201d (802-25).<\/p>\n\n\n\nWEEK 16<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
12\/08. Friedrich Nietzsche, Ferdinand de Saussure. Nietzsche\u2019s \u201cOn Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense\u201d (870-884). De Saussure\u2019s \u201cIntroduction\u201d to Course in General Linguistics<\/em> and Part One, Chapter I (956-77).<\/p>\n\n\n\nFINALS WEEK<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Final Exam Date: Thurs. Dec. 15, 7:30 \u2013 9:20 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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