COMP 366
Romantic Literature and Philosophy Fall 2013
Division I Writing Skills
Cross-listed ENGL 366
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The Romantic writing of the late 18th and early 19th centuries represents one of the most direct and fruitful collaborations between literature and philosophy in the history of Western culture, though historical accounts of Romanticism as a rebellion of heart against mind often seem to suggest otherwise. In this course we will see how Romantic writing works to complicate familiar oppositions between abstract thinking and immediate feeling; cool reason and hot passion; staid contemplation and direct action; and present reality and utopian ideality. Not only were Romantic writers frequently the self-appointed theorists of their own poetic practices, but their works also responded to the unprecedented role given to aesthetic judgment by philosophers of their day, who granted it wide-reaching powers in the moral, political, and intellectual lives of rational animals. Through readings of representative works, we will analyze the underpinnings of this Romantic enthusiasm for the aesthetic, and also consider the relevance of Romantic works for contemporary debates about the relationship between ethics, politics, and aesthetics. Primary texts may include works by Kant, Coleridge, Schelling,Wordsworth, Hegel, Hölderlin, P. Shelley, C. Smith, and Keats.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 19
Expected: 19
Class#: 1924
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: three papers (4 pp., 6, pp. 8-10 pp.) and one in-class presentation
Prerequisites: a 100-level ENGL course, or a score of 5 on the AP English Literature exam, or a score of 6 or 7 on the Higher Level IB English exam
Enrollment Preferences: English majors
Distributions: Division I Writing Skills
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
ENGL 366 Division I COMP 366 Division I
Attributes: ENGL Criticism Courses
ENGL Literary Histories B

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