MODULE THREE: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (AND AFTER)

ABBREVIATIONS

Cottingham: John Cottingham, ed. Western Philosophy: an Anthology
Adams: Hazard Adams, ed. Critical Theory Since Plato
Leitch: Vincent Leitch, ed. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism

WEEK 9: PHILOSOPHY

Lec. 1: Post-Kantian German Idealism

• Immanuel Kant 

  • Critique of Pure Reason [1781]: "Experience and Understanding" (pp. 41-45 in Cottingham)

  • Prolegomena [1783]: "Metaphysics, Old and New" (pp. 103-110 in Cottingham)

• G. W. F. Hegel The Philosophy of History [1832] (pp. 76-87 in Patrick Gardiner, ed. Nineteenth Century Philosophy)

Lec. 2: Post-Herderian German Materialism

• Johann Gottfried von Herder Ideas For a Philosophy of the History of Man [1784-1791] (in Patrick Gardiner, ed. Theories of History; also in folder)

• Wilhelm Von Humboldt On Language: On the Diversity of Human Language Construction and its Influence on the Mental  Development of the Human Species [1836]: see selection in folder)

Tutorial: see questions based on Wordsworth (from Module II, Week 8)

Recommended Readings:

• Russell, Bertrand History of Western Philosophy: Bk. 3 Modern Philosophy: 
  • Ch. XVIII "The Romantic Movement" (pp. 651-659)
  • Ch. XX "Kant" (pp. 675-690)
  • Ch. XXI "Currents of Thought in the Nineteenth Century" (pp. 691-700)
• Taylor, Charles Sources of the Self: 
  • "Nature as Source" (pp. 355-367)
  • "The Expressivist Turn" (pp. 368-390)
  • "Our Victorian Contemporaries" (pp. 393-418)
• Harland, Richard Literary Theory: from Plato to Barthes: 
  • "Herder and the Spirit of the Time" (pp. 62-65)
  • "The Influence of Kant" (pp. 65-69)

• Percy Bysshe Shelley "From A Defense of Poetry" [1821] (pp. 516-529 in Adams; also in Leitch): read from
  • "Language, colour, form, . . ." (p. 517) to ". . . living images" (p. 519)
  • "According to one mode . . ." (p. 516) to " . . . still more decisive." (p.517); 
  • "Poetry is indeed something divine . . ." (p.527) to " . . . the most enlarged imagination" (p. 527); and 
  • "A poet, as he is the author . . ." (p.528) to " . . . unacknowledged legislators of the world." (p.529)

Lec. 2: Reader I: Shelley on Poetry's Beneficial Effect / Baudelaire

• Percy Bysshe Shelley "From A Defense of Poetry" [1821] (pp. 516-529 in Adams; also in Leitch): read from 

  • "Having determined what is poetry . . ." (p.519) to " . . . advert to this purpose" (p. 520) 
  • "But let us not be betrayed . . ." (p. 525) to " . . . impressions blunted by reiteration" (p. 528)
• Charles Baudelaire The Salon of 1859 [1859]: selections from Parts III and IV ( pp. 622-623 in Adams)

• W. E. B. Du Bois 

  • "The Conservation of Races" [1897] (in David Levering Lewis, ed. W. E. B. Du Bois: a Reader; also in Eric Sundquist, ed. The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois Reader; also in folder)

  • "Of Our Spiritual Strivings" [1897] (in Lewis or Sundquist)

  • "The Concept of Race" [1940] (in Lewis or Sundquist)

• Brathwaite, Kamau 
  • "Timehri" [1970] (in Orde Coombes, ed. Is Massa Day Dead?; also in folder)
  • Roots: "History of the Voice" (1979) (see excerpts in folder entitled "Nation Language")

• Harland, Richard Literary Theory: from Plato to Barthes: 
  • Ch. 4: "Romantic Literary Theory": 

    • "The Role of the Critic" (pp. 72-74)

    • "Some British Themes" (pp. 74-77)
  • Ch. 6 "Naturalism, Symbolism and Modernism": 
    • "French Naturalists" (pp. 98-103)
    • "French Symbolists" (pp. 103-109)

• Hippolyte Taine "From History of English Literature" [1863] (pp. 609-620 in Adams)

Lec. 2: Reader II: The 'Disinterested' Reader

• Matthew Arnold  

  • "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" [1864] (pp. 592-603 in Adams; pp. 806-824 in Leitch) 

  • "The Study of Poetry" [1880] (pp. 603-607 in Adams) 

• Kamau Brathwaite Roots: "The African Presence in Caribbean Literature" [1970] (also in folder)

• Harland, Richard Literary Theory: from Plato to Barthes: 

  • Ch. 5 "Social Theories of the 19th Century": 
    • "Mathew Arnold" (pp. 87-90)
    • "The Beginnings of Sociological Criticism: Taine and Marx" (pp. 90-95)

• Emile Zola  "From The Experimental Novel" [1880] (pp. 645-655 in Adams)

Lec. 2: Post-colonial Perspectives on Representation / Form

• Ramchand, Ken The West Indian Novel and its Background [1970]:
  • "Introduction" (pp.3-15; also in folder)
  • "The Contemporary Linguistic Situation" (pp. 90-96; also in folder)
  • "Dialect and West Indian Fiction" (pp. 96-107; also in folder)
• Achebe, Chinua  Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays:  "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart Of Darkness" [1975] (also in Adams; also in folder)

• Achebe, Chinua Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays: 
  • "The Novelist as Teacher" [1965]  (also in folder)
  • "The Duty and Involvement of the African Writer" [1968]  (also in folder)
• Ken Ramchand "Concern for Criticism" Caribbean Quarterly 16 (1970): 51-60 (also in folder)

• Harland, Richard Literary Theory: from Plato to Barthes: Ch. 6 "Naturalism, Symbolism and Modernism": "French Naturalists" (pp. 98-103)