Week 1

2/21

Introduction

Week 2

3/6

Plato

¨          Republic – all selections (18-38)

Ÿ             Ion (12-18)

Week 3

3/13

Aristotle

¨          Poetics – all selection (49-66)

Ÿ             Horace, Art of Poetry (18-38)

Ÿ             Longinus, On the Sublime (76-98)

Week 4

3/20

Sir Philip Sidney

¨          “An Apology for Poetry” (142-174)

Ÿ             St. Thomas Aquinas – all selection (117-119)

Ÿ             Sir Francis Bacon, from The Advancement of Learning (183-184)

Week 5

3/27

John Dryden

¨          “An Essay of Dramatic Poesy” (214-240)

Ÿ             John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding – all selections (254-268)

Week 6

4/10

Alexander Pope

¨          “An Essay of Criticism” (273-282)

Ÿ             Giambattista Vico from The New Science (290-296)

Ÿ             Edmund Burke, from A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful – all selections (299-306)

Week 7

4/17

Immanuel Kant

¨          Critique of Judgment – all selections (376-393)

Ÿ             Friedrich Wilhelm von Schelling, from On the Relation of the Plastic Arts to the Nature (455-467)

Ÿ             Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria – all selections (476-480)

Mid-term – a short paper of approximately 5 pages.

Week 8

4/24

William Wordsworth

¨          “Preface to the Second Edition of Lyrical Ballards” (437-446)

Ÿ             Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman – all selections (395-399)

Ÿ             Percy Shelley, “A Defense of Poetry” (515-529)

Week 9

5/1

Matthew Arnold

¨          “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time” (592-603)

¨          from “The Study of Poetry” (586-607)

Ÿ             Edgar Allan Poe, “The Poetic Principle” (575-584)

Ÿ             Oscar Wilde, “The Decay of Lying” (645-655)

Week 10

5/8

Arthur Schopenhaur

¨          The World as Will and Idea from Book III (496-507)

Ÿ             Friedrich Nietzsche from The Birth of Tragedy (629-634)

Week 11

5/15

Ferdinand de Saussure

¨          From The Course of General Linguistics – all selections (717-726)

Ÿ             Jacques Derrida, “Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of Human Science” (1117-1126)

Ÿ             Sigmund Freud, “Creative Writers and Daydreaming” (712-716)

Week 12

5/22

Karl Marx

¨          From a Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (625-628)

¨          From The German Ideology (625)

Ÿ             George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, from “Introduction” to The Philosophy of Fine Art (534-545)

Week 13

5/29

Victor Shoklovsky

¨          “Art as Technique” (751-759)

Ÿ             Leon Trotsky, “The Formalist School of Poetry and Marxism” (792-799)

Ÿ             Boris Eichenbaum, “The Theory of the Formal Method” (801-816)

Week 14

6/5

T. S. Eliot

¨          “Tradition and Individual Talent” (761-764)

¨          “Hamlet and His Problems” (764-766)

Ÿ              Walter Benjamin, “On Language as Such and On the Language of Man” (743-748)

Ÿ             Carl Gustav Jung, “On the Relation of Analytical Psychology to Poetry” (784-791)

Week 15

6/12

I. A. Richard

¨          Practical Criticism – all selections (827-837)

Ÿ             W. K. Wimsatt & Monroe Beardsley – all selections (945-959)

Ÿ             Cleanth Brooks – all selections (961-974)

Week 16

6/19

Mikhail Bakhtin

¨          “Epic and Novel: Toward a Methodology for the Study of the Novel” (839-855)

Ÿ             George Lukacs, “The Ideal of Harmonious Man in Bourgeois Aesthetics” (903-908)

Week 17

6/26

Final – Term paper due (approximately 10 pages)

Comments, Suggestions, Celebration

Week 2

3/6

Plato

¨          Republic – all selections (18-38) – major text, by discussion.

Ÿ             Ion (12-18) – supportive texts, by lecture.