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ENGL301
Aesthetics and/or Ideology
ENGL301 FA
Not Currently Offered
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: Seminar
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level: UG Credit: 1.00
Gen Ed Area & Dept: HA ENGL
Prerequisites:
None
Last Updated on MAR-22-1999
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