The following schedule is subject to change according to the demands of the class. I will announce changes to it in class when the need presents itself.
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September 9 |
Introduction |
M |
September 14 |
Plato, Phaedo |
W |
September 16 |
Plato, "Ion" |
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M |
September 21 |
Plato, from The Republic, from Phaedrus |
W |
September 23 |
Aristotle, "from Physics," "from Metaphysics," Poetics, parts 1-16 |
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M |
September 28 |
Aristotle, Poetics, parts 17-69 |
W |
September 30 |
Horace, "Art of Poetry"
Peer-edit Passage Analysis |
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M |
October 5 |
Pseudo-Longinus, On the Sublime |
W |
October 7 |
EARLY-TERM EXAMINATION |
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M |
October 12 |
Sir Philip Sidney, An Apology for Poetry |
W |
October 14 |
Torquato Tasso, "from Discourses on the Heroic Poem"
Sir Francis Bacon, "from The Advancement of Learning"
Passage Analysis due in class |
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M |
October 19 |
Pierre Corneille, "Of the Three Unities of Action, Time and Place" |
W |
October 21 |
John Locke, "from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding" |
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M |
October 26 |
David Hume, "Of the Standard of Taste" |
W |
October 28 |
Edmund Burke, "from A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful" |
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M |
November 2 |
Gotthold Ephraim-Lessing, "from Laocoön" |
W |
November 4 |
Friedrich Schiller, "Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man: from 'Sixth Letter,'" "Twelth Letter," "Thirteenth Letter," "Fourteenth Letter," "Fifteenth Letter," "Twenty-First Letter," "Twenty-Second Letter," "from 'Twenty-Fifth Letter'" |
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M |
November 9 |
Friedrich Schlegel, "from Critical Fragments (Lyceum Fragments)," "from Athenaeum Fragments" |
W |
November 11 |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "from On the Principles of Genial Criticism" |
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M |
November 16 |
Percy Bysshe Shelley, "A Defense of Poetry" |
W |
November 18 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Poet" |
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M |
November 23 |
Friedrich Nietzsche, "from The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music" |
W |
November 25 |
Virginia Woolf, "A Room of One's Own" |
F |
November 27 |
Thanksgiving Holiday |
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M |
November 30 |
Cleanth Brooks, "The Heresy of Paraphrase" |
W |
December 2 |
Roland Barthes, "The Death of the Author"
Michel Foucault, "What Is an Author?"
Peer Edit Criticism Review |
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M |
December 7 |
Louis Althusser, "from Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses" |
W |
December 9 |
Stanley Fish, "Is There a Text in This Class?" |
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M |
December 14 |
Benedict Anderson, "The Origins of National Consciousness" |
W |
December 15 |
Richard Rorty, "The Contingency of Language"
Criticism Review due in class |
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F |
December 18 |
FINAL EXAMINATION FROM NOON TO 1:55PM |