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This course concerns the relation between human creative capacities and their cognitive capacities. The thesis of the course is that acts of knowing use imaginative and intuitive powers. To study how imagination functions, we will read a selection of British and American poetry in the tradition of Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge. We will also read essays on the nature of imagination and on cultivating a consciousness capable of insight. Attentional exercises will provide first-hand experience of students’ own capacities for "insight-imagination." Students will keep a notebook monitoring their experience with the exercises and will also write essays on course themes. The course is for intellectually mature and inquiring students. Casual effort is not sufficient for this kind of work.
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/Discussion
Level: UGRD Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: HA ENGL Grading Mode: Graded
Prerequisites: ENGL201 Links to Web Resources For This Course.
Last Updated on MAR-19-2002
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