E491 Traditions of English Literary Criticism Schedule, Fall 2004

SYLLABUS FOR E491 TRADITIONS OF ENGLISH LITERARY CRITICISM
CSU FULLERTON, FALL 2004

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COURSE INFORMATION. English 491, Course Code 12816. M/W 1:00 – 2:20 p.m., McCarthy Hall (MH) 685. Office hours: M/W 12:00 – 12:55 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

M. 08/23. Introduction to class.

W. 08/25. Plato. Ion (33-48).

WEEK 2

M. 08/30. Plato. The Republic, from Books II, III, VII, X (49-81).

W. 09/01. Plato’s Phaedrus (81-86). Aristotle’s The Poetics (86-117).

WEEK 3

M. 09/06. Labor Day Holiday.

W. 09/08. Aristotle. The Poetics (86-117).

WEEK 4

M. 09/13. Horace. Ars Poetica (121-35).

W. 09/15. Plotinus. From The Enneads, Fifth Ennead, Treatise 8: “On the Intellectual Beauty” (174-83).

WEEK 5

M. 09/20. St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Dante Alighieri. From Augustine’s On Christian Doctrine (185-92); from The Trinity (192-96). From Aquinas’ Summa Theologica (240-46). From Dante’s Il Convivio (246-50), from “The Letter to Can Grande (251-52).

W. 09/22. Sir Philip Sidney. “An Apology for Poetry” (Norton 326-40, 348-50).

WEEK 6

M. 09/27. Joachim du Bellay and Pierre Corneille. From du Bellay’s The Defence and Illustration of the French Language (281-90). Corneille’s “Of the Three Unities of Action, Time, and Place” (363-79).

W. 09/29. Alexander Pope. “An Essay on Criticism” (438-58).

WEEK 7

M. 10/04. Samuel Johnson. The Rambler No. 4 “On Fiction” (458-66); from Rasselas (466-68); “Preface” to Shakespeare (468-80).

W. 10/06. David Hume. “Of the Standard of Taste” (486-99).

WEEK 8

M. 10/11. Immanuel Kant. Critique of Judgment, from Book I: “Analytic of the Beautiful” (499-518).

W. 10/13. Immanuel Kant. Critique of Judgment, from Book II: “Analytic of the Sublime” (519-36).

WEEK 9

M. 10/18. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. From Laocöon (554-67).

W. 10/20. Friedrich von Schiller. Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man, Letters 2, 6, 9 (573-82).

WEEK 10

M. 10/25. Hegel. “Master-Slave Dialectic” from Phenomenology of Mind (626-36).

W. 10/27. Hegel. “Introduction” from Lectures on Fine Art (636-45).

WEEK 11

M. 11/01. William Wordsworth. “Preface” to Lyrical Ballads, 1802“ (645-68).

W. 11/03. William Wordsworth. “Preface” to Lyrical Ballads, 1802“ (645-68).

WEEK 12

M. 11/08. Samuel T. Coleridge. From The Statesman’s Manual (668-74); from Biographia Literaria (674-82).

W. 11/10. Percy B. Shelley. “A Defence of Poetry” (699-717).

WEEK 13

M. 11/15. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. From Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 (759-67); from The German Ideology (767-69); from The Communist Manifesto (769-73); from Grundrisse (773-74); from “Preface” to A Contribution…“ (774-76); from Capital, Vol. 1, Ch. 1 “Commodities” (776-83).

W. 11/17. Matthew Arnold. “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time” (802-25).

WEEK 14

M. 11/22. Holiday Recess.

W. 11/24. Holiday Recess.

WEEK 15

M. 11/29. Charles Baudelaire. From The Painter of Modern Life (789-802).

W. 12/01. Friedrich Nietzsche. “On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense” (870-884).

WEEK 16

M. 12/06. Henry James. “The Art of Fiction” (856-69).

W. 12/08. Stéphane Mallarmé. “Crisis in Poetry” (841-50).

FINALS WEEK

Final Exam Date: Friday, 12/17 from 2:30 – 4:00 p.m.

SYLLABUS FOR E491 TRADITIONS OF ENGLISH LITERARY CRITICISMCSU FULLERTON, FALL 2004