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Academic Year 2000/2001


Aesthetics and/or Ideology
ENGL 301 FA

This survey course presents modern philosophical accounts of aesthetic experience and the ways that literary figures have adapted these theories to suit their purposes. Our concerns will be with the way the aesthetic presents endless provocation for philosophy and with the way theory becomes a spur to literary invention.

MAJOR READINGS

Baumgarten, Kant, Schiller, Burke, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Keats, Arnold, Nietzsche, Pater, Bergson, Hulme, Pound, Dewey, Barthes, Barth.

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Multiple short essays.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

This course counts toward the English Department's Theory requirement. Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: HA ENGL    Grading Mode: Student Option   

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-26-2001


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