MODULE THREE

LITS2306 HISTORY OF CRITICISM

MODULE THREE: THE RHETORICAL TRADITION

WEEK NINE: THE COUNTER-ENLIGHTENMENT (c.1785 - c.1830) (Week of October 31)
REQUIRED READINGS:	LECTURE 1: Proto-Romanticism	Giambattista Vico, The New Science [1744] (pp. 290-297 in Adams; pp. 401-415 in Leitch) [or read the following paragraphs from the original text: 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 51, 331, 342, 349, 361, 362, 363, 364, 365, 366, 367, 368, 374, 375, 376, 377, 378, 379, 380, 381, 382, 383, 384, 400, 401, 402, 404, 405, 406, 407, 408, 409, 410, 411, 431, 779]	Notes: 09A Vico, The New Science
	LECTURE 2: Romantic Historicism	Johann Gottfried von Herder, Ideas for a Philosophy of the History of Man [1784-1891]: see extract, pp. 35-49 in Theories of History, ed. Patrick Gardiner	Notes: 09B Herder, Ideas for a Philosophy of History
	TUTORIAL: Romantic Linguistics	Wilhelm von Humboldt, "From Collected Works" [1796-1836] (pp. 486-491 in Adams) In lieu of Humboldt, we will study Watt's "Realism and the Novel Form" from the final week of Module 2 in the tutorial this week.	09C Humboldt, On Language [TBA]
RECOMMENDED READINGS:		Berlin, Isaiah: The Counter-Enlightenment (Dictionary of the History of Ideas) Costelloe, Timothy: Giambattista Vico (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) Forster, Michael N.: Johann Gottfried von Herder (Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy) Mueller-Vollmer, Kurt: Wilhelm von Humboldt (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
PHILWEB RESOURCES:		Early Modern Thought: Vico Nineteenth Century Thought: Herder Humboldt
COMMENTS:		At the very least read Berlin's "The Counter-Enlightenment" (see Recommended Readings) above on your own.

WEEK TEN: ROMANTICISM / HISTORICISM / PRAGMATISM I: THE AUTHOR / LITERARY HISTORY (Week of November 7)
REQUIRED READINGS:	LECTURE 1:	Hyppolite Taine, "From History of English Literature" [1863] (pp. 609-620 in Adams) Tuesday November 9	Notes: 10i Authorship 10ii Literary History / Intertextuality / Canonicity 10A Taine, History of English Literature: Introduction
	LECTURE 2:	Wilhelm Dilthey, "The Development of Hermeneutics" [1900] (pp. 247-263 in Selected Writings, ed. and trans. Hans Peter Rickman) Friedrich von Schleiermacher, "Outlines of the 1819 Lectures" [1819] (pp. 613-625 in Leitch) Thursday November 11	Notes: 10B Dilthey, "The Development of Hermeneutics" 10Bi Schleiermacher, "Compendium of 1819"
	TUTORIAL:	Leo Spitzer, "Linguistics and Literary History" [1948] (pp. 207-238 in Twentieth Century Literary Theory: an Introductory Anthology, ed. Vassilis Lambropoulos and David Neal Miller)	10C Spitzer, "Linguistics and Literary History"
RECOMMENDED READINGS:
PHILWEB RESOURCES:		Romantic Literary Theory: Taine Neo-Hegelian Historicism / Idealism: Dilthey Spitzer
COMMENTS:		Read 10i (Authorship) and 10ii (Literary History) on your own. Bring Handout 10A (Taine) to the lecture on Tuesday; Bring Handout 10B (Dilthey) and 10Bi (Schleiermacher) to the Thursday lecture; Bring Handout 10C (Spitzer) to your tutorial.

WEEK ELEVEN: ROMANTICISM / HISTORICISM / PRAGMATISM II:
THE READER
(Week of November 14)

REQUIRED READINGS:

LECTURE 1:

Walter Pater, Studies in the History of the Renaissance [1873]: Preface and Conclusion (pp. 641-643 in Adams; pp. 835-840 in Leitch)

Tuesday November 16

Notes:

LECTURE 2:

Stanley Fish, "Interpreting the Variorum" [1976](pp. 147-173 in Is There a Text in this Class?; pp. 2071-2088 in Leitch)

Thursday November 18

Notes:

11B Fish, "Interpreting the Variorum"

TUTORIAL:

Louise Rosenblatt, Literature as Exploration [1938]:
- Chapter 2 "The Literary Experience" (pp. 25-53)
- Chapter 5 "Broadening the Framework" (pp. 110-124)

11C Rosenblatt, Literature as Exploration

RECOMMENDED READINGS:

PHILWEB RESOURCES:

'Victorian' Literary Theory:
- Pater
Pragmatism:
- Fish
- Rosenblatt

COMMENTS:

Bring Handout 11A to the Tuesday lecture and Handout 11B to the Thursday lecture.
Bring Handout 11C to your tutorial.

WEEK TWELVE: ROMANTICISM / HISTORICISM / PRAGMATISM III: REPRESENTATION AND FORM (Week of November 21)
REQUIRED READINGS:	LECTURE 1: Poetry	Walter Ong, "A Dialectic of Aural and Objective Correlatives" [1958] (pp. 498-508 in Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, ed. David Lodge) Tuesday November 23	Notes: 12i Literary Representation [TBA] 12ii Literary Form [TBA] 12A Ong, "A Dialectic of Aural and Objective Correlates"
	LECTURE 2: Prose Fiction	Wayne Booth, The Rhetoric of Fiction [1961]: Preface and Chapter I "Telling and Showing" (pp. xiii-xv; 3-22) Chapter II "General Rules I: 'True Novels Must be Realistic'" (pp. 23-64) Thursday November 25	Notes: 12B Booth, The Rhetoric of Fiction: Chs. I-IV
	TUTORIAL:	Wayne Booth, The Rhetoric of Fiction [1961]: Chapter III "General Rules II: 'All Authors Should be Objective'" (pp. 67-86) Chapter IV "General Rules III: 'True Art Ignores the Audience'" (pp. 89-118)	See the parts of Handout 12B above devoted to Chapters III and IV of The Rhetoric of Fiction
RECOMMENDED READINGS:
PHILWEB RESOURCES:		Pragmatism: Booth Ong
COMMENTS:		Bring Handout 12A to the Tuesday lecture and Handout 12B to the Thursday lecture (we will focus on chapters 1 and 2 of Booth's The Rhetoric of Fiction). In the tutorial this week, we also will be using Handout 12B -- our focus will be on chapters 3 and 4 of Booth's The Rhetoric of Fiction.

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