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| Week 1 | Introduction |
| Week 2 | Longinus, "On the Sublime" [packet] Burke, from A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful [packet] Kant, from the First Book, "Analytic of the Beautiful," from the Second Book "Analytic of the Sublime" in the Critique of Judgement [packet] Schlegel, from Critical Fragments; from Athenaeum Fragments; from "On Incomprehensibility" [packet] Lyotard, from Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime, Chapter 2 |
| Week 3 |
Burke, from The French Revolution [packet] Eagleton, from Heathcliff and the Great Hunger [packet] Weiskel, "The Logic of Terror" [packet] Cresap, "Sublime Politics: on the uses of an aesthetics of terror" [packet] Hertz, "Medusa’s Head: Male Hysteria under Political Pressure" [packet] |
| Weeks 4, 5, 6 | Wordsworth, in Romantic Poetry and Prose The Lucy Poems "Lines Composed a Few Miles AboveTintern Abbey" "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" The Prelude, Books I, II, VI, XII, XIV Weiskel, "The Ethos of Alienation: Two Versions of Transcendence" [packet] Hertz, "The Notion of Blockage" [packet] De Man, "The Rhetoric of Temporality" [packet] Fry, from The Poet’s Calling in the English Ode [packet] |
| Week 7 | Shelley, in Romantic Poetry and Prose "Ode to the West Wind" "To a Skylark" "Mont Blanc" Richardson, "Romanticism and the Colonization of the Feminine" [packet] Ross, "Romantic Quest and Conquest" [packet] |
Week 8 |
Keats, in Romantic Poetry and
Prose "Ode to Psyche" "Ode to a Nightingale" "Ode on a Grecian Urn" "To Autumn" Letters (In Romantic Poetry and Prose) Weiskel, "Absence and Identity in the Egotistical Sublime" [packet |
| Week 9 & 10 | Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Blanchot, The Writing of the Disaster Lyotard, "Answering the Question: What is Postmodernism?" [packet] Lyotard, from Lessons in the Analyltic of the Sublime, Chapter 7 |
Weeks 11 & 12 |
Proust, Time Regained ; selections from
the other books of Remembrance of Time Past [handout] Freud, "The ‘Uncanny’" [packet] Benjamin, "The Image of Proust" [packet] |
Week 13 |
Woolf, To the Lighthouse Lyotard, from Lessons in the Analytic of the Sublime, Chapter 9 |
Requirements: thoughtful and sustained participation in the seminar; a
seminar project that will run concurrantly with the seminar and will result
in a lengthy scholarly essay of 15-25 pages or a work--creative or critical--of
similar weight and consequence.
**Students with accomodations granted under ADA are encouraged to meet with the professor in order to make different aspectsof the course that might be problematic as "accessible" as possible.