E491 Traditions of English Literary Criticism Schedule, Fall 2003

SYLLABUS FOR E491 TRADITIONS OF ENGLISH LITERARY CRITICISM
CSU FULLERTON, FALL 2003

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COURSE INFORMATION. English 491, Course Code 13102. Tu/Th 1:30 – 2:50 p.m., University Hall (UH) 520. Office hours: Tu/Th 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. in University Hall (UH) 329. Email: e491_at_ajdrake.com. From the Catalog: “(Covers) the major English critics, from the Renaissance to the beginning of the 20th century, in relationship to the classical theories of criticism. Units (3).” Prerequisite: ENGL 300 or equivalent.

REQUIRED TEXTS AT TITAN BOOKSTORE

Leitch, Vincent B., ed. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. New York: Norton, 2001. ISBN: 0393974294.

QUESTIONS FOR JOURNALS AND PRESENTATIONS

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SCHEDULE: WORKS DISCUSSED ON DATES INDICATED

WEEK 1

Tu. 08/26. Introduction to Course.

Th. 08/28. Plato. Ion (33-48).

WEEK 2

Tu. 09/02. Plato. The Republic, from Books II, III, VII, X (49-81).

Th. 09/04. Plato and Aristotle. Plato’s Phaedrus (81-86). Aristotle’s The Poetics (86-117).

WEEK 3

Tu. 09/09. Aristotle. The Poetics (86-117).

Th. 09/11. Horace. Ars Poetica (121-35).

WEEK 4

Tu. 09/16. Longinus. From On the Sublime (135-55).

Th. 09/18. Quintilian. From Institutio Oratoria (155-71).

WEEK 5

Tu. 09/23. Saint Augustine, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Dante Alighieri. Augustine’s On Christian Doctrine (185-92) and The Trinity (192-96). Aquinas’ Summa Theologica (240-46). From Dante’s Il Convivio (246-50); from “The Letter to Can Grande (251-52).

Th. 09/25. Moses Maimonides. From The Guide of the Perplexed (211-226).

WEEK 6

Tu. 09/30. Sir Philip Sidney. “An Apology for Poetry” (326-40, 348-50).

Th. 10/02. Pierre Corneille and John Dryden. Corneille’s “Of the Three Unities of Action, Time, and Place” (363-79). From Dryden’s “An Essay of Dramatic Poesy” (379-83).

WEEK 7

Tu. 10/07. Alexander Pope. “An Essay on Criticism” (438-58).

Th. 10/09. Samuel Johnson. The Rambler No. 4 “On Fiction” (458-66); from Rasselas (466-68); “Preface” to Shakespeare (468-80).

WEEK 8

Tu. 10/14. David Hume. “Of the Standard of Taste” (483-99).

Th. 10/16. Immanuel Kant. Critique of Judgment, from Book I: “Analytic of the Beautiful” (499-518).

WEEK 9

Tu. 10/21. Immanuel Kant. Critique of Judgment, from Book II: “Analytic of the Sublime” (519-36).

Th. 10/23. Friedrich von Schiller. From Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man: Letters 2, 6, 9 (571-82).

WEEK 10

Tu. 10/28. Georg Hegel. “The Master-Slave Dialectic” from Phenomenology of Spirit (626-36).

Th. 10/30. Georg Hegel. “Introduction” to Lectures on Fine Art (636-45).

WEEK 11

Tu. 11/04. William Wordsworth. “Preface to Lyrical Ballads, 1802” (645-68).

Th. 11/06. William Wordsworth. “Preface to Lyrical Ballads, 1802” (645-68).

WEEK 12

Tu. 11/11. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. From The Statesman’s Manual (668-74), from Biographia Literaria (674-82).

Th. 11/13. Percy Bysshe Shelley. “A Defense of Poetry” (695-717).

WEEK 13

Tu. 11/18. Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels. From The German Ideology (767-69); from Grundrisse (773-74); from “Preface” to A Contribution… (774-76).

Th. 11/20. Matthew Arnold. “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time” (802-25).

WEEK 14

Tu. 11/25. Thanksgiving Holiday Recess.

Th. 11/27. Thanksgiving Holiday Recess.

WEEK 15

Tu. 12/02. Charles Baudelaire. From The Painter of Modern Life (789-802).

Th. 12/04. Walter Pater and Stéphane Mallarmé. From Pater’s The Renaissance (833-41). Mallarmé’s “Crisis in Poetry” (841-51).

WEEK 16

Tu. 12/09. Friedrich Nietzsche. “On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense” (870-884).

Th. 12/11. Friedrich Nietzsche. From The Birth of Tragedy (885-95).

FINALS WEEK

Thursday, 12/18. 2:30 – 4:20 p.m.

SYLLABUS FOR E491 TRADITIONS OF ENGLISH LITERARY CRITICISMCSU FULLERTON, FALL 2003