18th CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURECOURSE PROFESSOR: DRAGO
IVANASEMINAR INSTRUCTOR: DRAGO [email protected]
Seminar Requirements:
Final test to be taken during the last meeting.
Attendance
All students should attend no less than 75% of all classes. As
there will be seven meetings, this means that you should be present
for at least five of them. If you attend only four classes, you
will get a one point deduction. If you attend less than four, you
will not be allowed to take the final test and you will fail this
seminar.
Grading
Students may earn a maximum of two extra points. You may be
awarded one point for doing a competent presentation of one of the
mandatory readings (as long as you do not plagiarize) and one point
for perfect attendance and good class participation.
Seminar Structure and List of Required Readings:
1. Introduction.
2. Neoclassical Approaches to Philosophy and Criticism. The
Great Chain of Being.- Joseph Addison,The Aims of the
Spectator(Spectator #10)- Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, An
Essay on ManEpistles I and II.
3.18th Century Satire. - Jonathan Swift, Gullivers Travels
4.The Picaresque- Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews5. Romantic
Approaches to the Imagination- WilliamWordsworth, Preface to
Lyrical Ballads, Tintern Abbey- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia
Literaria (chap. 13), Kubla Khan
6. Romantic Visions- William Wordsworth Ode: Intimations of
Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood - Samuel Taylor
Coleridge, Dejection: An Ode - Percy Bisshey Shelley, Hymn to
Intellectual Beauty
7. Romantic Approaches to Nature. Final Test. - Percy Bysshe
Shelley, Ode to the West Wind- John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn
