English 3906
Schedule
Schedule
The following schedule is subject to change according to the demands of the class. I will announce changes to it in class when the need presents itself.
| W | September 9 | Introduction |
| M | September 14 | Plato, Phaedo |
| W | September 16 | Plato, "Ion" |
| M | September 21 | Plato, from The Republic, from Phaedrus |
| W | September 23 | Aristotle, "from Physics," "from Metaphysics," Poetics, parts 1-16 |
| M | September 28 | Aristotle, Poetics, parts 17-69 |
| W | September 30 | Horace, "Art of Poetry" Peer-edit Passage Analysis |
| M | October 5 | Pseudo-Longinus, On the Sublime |
| W | October 7 | EARLY-TERM EXAMINATION |
| M | October 12 | Sir Philip Sidney, An Apology for Poetry |
| W | October 14 | Torquato Tasso, "from Discourses on the Heroic Poem" Sir Francis Bacon, "from The Advancement of Learning" Passage Analysis due in class |
| M | October 19 | Pierre Corneille, "Of the Three Unities of Action, Time and Place" |
| W | October 21 | John Locke, "from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding" |
| M | October 26 | David Hume, "Of the Standard of Taste" |
| W | October 28 | Edmund Burke, "from A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful" |
| M | November 2 | Gotthold Ephraim-Lessing, "from Laocoön" |
| W | November 4 | Friedrich Schiller, "Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man: from 'Sixth Letter,'" "Twelth Letter," "Thirteenth Letter," "Fourteenth Letter," "Fifteenth Letter," "Twenty-First Letter," "Twenty-Second Letter," "from 'Twenty-Fifth Letter'" |
| M | November 9 | Friedrich Schlegel, "from Critical Fragments (Lyceum Fragments)," "from Athenaeum Fragments" |
| W | November 11 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "from On the Principles of Genial Criticism" |
| M | November 16 | Percy Bysshe Shelley, "A Defense of Poetry" |
| W | November 18 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Poet" |
| M | November 23 | Friedrich Nietzsche, "from The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music" |
| W | November 25 | Virginia Woolf, "A Room of One's Own" |
| F | November 27 | Thanksgiving Holiday |
| M | November 30 | Cleanth Brooks, "The Heresy of Paraphrase" |
| W | December 2 | Roland Barthes, "The Death of the Author" Michel Foucault, "What Is an Author?" Peer Edit Criticism Review |
| M | December 7 | Louis Althusser, "from Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses" |
| W | December 9 | Stanley Fish, "Is There a Text in This Class?" |
| M | December 14 | Benedict Anderson, "The Origins of National Consciousness" |
| W | December 15 | Richard Rorty, "The Contingency of Language" Criticism Review due in class |
| F | December 18 | FINAL EXAMINATION FROM NOON TO 1:55PM |
23 September 2009