5/30/2023 0 Comments Male name meaning last soulReading across a rich cross-section of authors and genres-graphic novels, genre fiction, auto-fiction, avant-garde fiction-we will examine the novel’s various and evolving conditions of production, reception, and criticism its relationship to other media forms, both old (print culture) and new (the Internet) its investment in national boundaries, “global English,” and the politics of translation and the always vexed interplay between the novel’s aesthetic and commercial values. Evaluation: Seminar presentation 25% participation in class discussion 25% term paper 50%.įormat: Lectures, seminar presentations, and class discussionĭescription: What is the contemporary novel? What historical dynamics or aesthetic features define its emergence as a formal category? This seminar will tackle such broad questions by pairing ten to twelve novels, all published since 2009, with criticism drawn from literary sociology, media studies, anthropology, new economic criticism, and feminist theory. We shall study these poems in the context of some of Johnson’s remarks on the nature of poetry, made in essays in The Rambler and The Idler. The course will also pay attention to Johnson’s own poetry, from “London” (1738) and “The Vanity of Human Wishes” (1751) to “On the Death of Dr Robert Levet” (1782). In this course we shall consider a selection of these prefaces, together with some of the poetry under discussion: thus Johnson’s preface to Milton will be accompanied by a study of “Lycidas” and his preface to Gray by a class on “Elegy written in a Country Churchyard.” The aim of the course is to consider the ways in which Johnson’s prefaces illuminate or obscure the work of his predecessors, as well as to examine how far eighteenth-century approaches to poetry differ from those of today. It surveys the lives and writings of the major English poets from about 1600 to 1750: from the metaphysical poets and Milton to Johnson’s contemporary, Thomas Gray. This course is an advanced seminar, in which active participation will be required.ĭescription: Samuel Johnson’s final work, Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets (1779-81), later known as Lives of the Poets, was among the most ambitious and influential of his many publications. Expected student preparation: previous university-level literature courses.
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