Παρουσίαση/Προβολή

(ENL430) -  Βασιλική Δημουλά

Περιγραφή Μαθήματος

This course focuses on a selection of texts written during the Romantic movement in Britain (1780-1832).  We will read poetry, essay writing, drama, and novel, in each case emphasizing the importance of generic experimentation as a hallmark of the Romantic era. The literary and intellectual “revolution” initiated by Romantic texts is examined in relation to the contemporary political, social, economic and cultural changes that dramatically altered our world. We will start with texts registering an immediate response to the seminal event of the French revolution, but the political and social problematic will remain active throughout the course, as we will follow how authors invent new forms and a new language of aesthetic experience, in order to articulate the engagement of literature with empirical reality.  Keeping in mind the political context, other lines of inquiry that will inform our discussion, include: the concept of nature, questions of subjectivity, imagination, mind and body, poetic diction, the challenge of institutionalized religion, new ethical perspectives, literature and science, literature and the emotions, Romanticism and the gothic, and connections between British and German Romanticism.  Readings in women writers ( Wollstonecraft, Shelley, and, later, Brontë) alongside the major canonical poets (Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats), will highlight a gendered dimension in what is already an immensely multifaceted literary phenomenon. 

Ημερομηνία δημιουργίας

Πέμπτη 22 Φεβρουαρίου 2018