E491 Traditions of English Literary Criticism Schedule, Fall 2006

SYLLABUS FOR E491 TRADITIONS OF ENGLISH LITERARY CRITICISM
CSU FULLERTON, FALL 2006

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COURSE INFORMATION. English 491, Course Code 13045. Th. 7:00 – 9:45 p.m., McCarthy Hall (MH) 685. Office hours: Th. 6:00 – 6:55 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

08/24. Introduction to course and to wiki features.

WEEK 2

08/31. Gorgias of Leontini, Plato. Gorgias’ “Encomium of Helen” (29-33). Plato’s Republic, from Books II, III, VII, X (49-81); Phaedrus (81-86).

WEEK 3

09/07. Aristotle. Poetics (86-117).

WEEK 4

09/14. Horace and Longinus. Horace’s Ars Poetica (121-35). From Longinus’ On Sublimity (135-55).

WEEK 5

09/21. Augustine, Aquinas, Maimonides, Christine de Pizan. From Augustine’s On Christian Doctrine (185-92) and from The Trinity (192-96). From Aquinas’ Summa Theologica (240-46). From Maimonides’ The Guide of the Perplexed (211-226). From de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies (263-70).

WEEK 6

09/28. Joachim du Bellay and Giacopo Mazzoni. From du Bellay’s Defence and Illustration of the French Language (279-90). From Mazzoni’s On the Defense of the Comedy of Dante (299-323).

WEEK 7

10/05. Pierre Corneille and Giambattista Vico. Corneille’s “Of the Three Unities of Action, Time, and Place” (363-79). From Vico’s The New Science (399-416).

WEEK 8

10/12. Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson. Pope’s “An Essay on Criticism” (438-58). Johnson’s The Rambler No. 4, “On Fiction” (458-66); from Rasselas (466-68); “Preface” to Shakespeare (468-80).

WEEK 9

10/19. Immanuel Kant. Critique of Judgment, from Book I: “Analytic of the Beautiful” (499-518); from Book II: “Analytic of the Sublime” (519-36).

WEEK 10

10/26. Georg Hegel and Germain Necker de Staël. Hegel’s “Master-Slave Dialectic” from Phenomenology of Mind (626-36); “Introduction” to Lectures on Fine Art (636-45). De Staël’s “On Fictions.” (594-604).

WEEK 11

11/02. William Wordsworth, S. T. Coleridge. Wordsworth’s “Preface” to Lyrical Ballads, 1802 (645-68). From Coleridge’s The Statesman’s Manual (668-74); from Biographia Literaria (674-82).

WEEK 12

11/09. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe. Emerson’s “The American Scholar” (717-21); “The Poet” (724-39). Poe’s “The Philosophy of Composition” (739-50).

WEEK 13

11/16. 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).

WEEK 14

11/23. Thanksgiving Holiday. No classes all week.

WEEK 15

11/30. Charles Baudelaire and Stéphane Mallarmé. From Baudelaire’s The Painter of Modern Life (789-802); Mallarmé’s “Crisis in Poetry” (841-51).

WEEK 16

12/07. Friedrich Nietzsche, Ferdinand de Saussure. Nietzsche’s “On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense” (870-884). De Saussure’s “Introduction” to Course in General Linguistics and Part One, Chapter I (956-77).

FINALS WEEK

Final Exam Date: Thursday, Dec. 14th 7:30 – 9:20 p.m.

SYLLABUS FOR E491 TRADITIONS OF ENGLISH LITERARY CRITICISMCSU FULLERTON, FALL 2006