OU-MLLL-Fall 2006
MLLL 5063. Section 900. Early Literary Criticism
Class meets in Kaufman Hall (KH), room 135. Mondays: 6:30-9:20 PM
Instructor's office: 131 KH (Kaufman Hall)
Office hours: Mondays, 6:00-6:30 PM, 9:30-10:00 PM, & by appt.
Phone: (405) 325-5845 (office & answering service); e mail: arlauer@ou.edu
Rhetoric
Syllabus:
- 1st week: Monday. 21 August 2006: DAY 1: Introduction to the course in 2003. Notes for MLLL 5063: CTsP: Plato: Ion, Republic, Phaedrus, Sophist, Philebus, Cratylus.
- 2nd week: Monday. 28 August: DAY 2: CTsP: Aristotle: Physics, Metaphysics, Poetics, Rhetoric; Cicero: Brutus; Horace: Art of Poetry; Strabo: Geography.
- 3rd week: Monday. 11 September : DAY 3: CTsP: Tacitus: Dialogue on Oratory; Pseudo-Longinus: On the Sublime; Plutarch: How the Young Man Should Study Poetry; Philostratus: Lives of the Sophists; Plotinus: Enneads.
- 4th week: Monday. 18 September: DAY 4: CTsP: St. Augustine: On Christian Doctrine; Boethius: The Consolation of Philosophy; St. Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologica; Dante Alighieri: The Banquet, Letter to Can Grande Della Scala; Giovanni Boccaccio: Life of Dante, Genealogy of the Gentile Gods.
- 5th week: Monday. 25 September: DAY 5: CTsP: Julius Caesar Scaliger: Poetics; Lodovico Castelvetro: The Poetics of Aristotle Translated and Explained; Giordano Bruno: Concerning the Cause, the Principle, and the One; Jacopo Mazzoni: On the Defense of the Comedy of Dante; Torquato Tasso: Discourses on the Heroic Poem.
- 6th week: Monday. 2 October: DAY 6: CTsP: Pierre Corneille: Of the Three Unities of Action, Time, and Place; John Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding; Joseph Addison: On the Pleasures of the Imagination; Giambattista Vico: The New Science; David Hume: Of the Standard of Taste; Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Laocoön.
- 7th week: Monday. 9 October: DAY 7: CTsP: Denis Diderot: The Paradox of Acting; Immanuel Kant: Critique of Judgment; Friedrich Schiller: Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man; Friedrich Schlegel: Critical Fragments, Athenaeum Fragments, On Incomprehensibility; Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of Fine Art.
- 8th week: Monday. 16 October: DAY 8: CTsP: First précis on any of the above authors. First textual application due today.
- 9th week: Monday. 23 October: DAY 9: CTsP: Charles Baudelaire: The Salon of 1859; Walter Pater: Studies in the History of the Renaissance; Hippolyte Adolphe Taine: History of English Literature; Friedrich Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music, Truth and Falsity in an Ultramoral Sense; Émile Zola: The Experimental Novel; Oscar Wilde: The Decay of Lying.
- 10th week: Monday. 30 October: DAY 10: Quintilian, Institutiones oratoriae (Books 1-3).
- 11th week: Monday. 6 November: DAY 11: Quintilian, Institutiones oratoriae (Books 4-6).
- 12th week: Monday. 13 November: DAY 12: Quintilian, Institutiones oratoriae (Books 7-9).
- 13th week: Monday. 20 November: DAY 13: Quintilian, Institutiones oratoriae (Books 10-12); Gérard Genette, Narrative Discourse ("Order")
- 14th week: Monday. 27November: DAY 14: CTsP: Gérard Genette, Narrative Discourse ("Duration," "Frequency," "Mood," "Voice").
- 15th week Monday. 4 December 2006: DAY 15: Second précis on any other author listed above. Second textual application due today.
- Adams, Hazard & Leroy Searle, eds. Critical Theory since Plato. 3rd. ed. Australia ; [Boston, Mass.] United States : Thomson/Wadsworth, 2005. ISBN: 0155055046.
- Quintilian. Institutiones oratoriae. Trans. H. E. Butler. Loeb Classical Library 124-127. London: W. Heinemann; Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP.
- Genette, Gérard. Narrative Discourse. An Essay in Method. Trans. Jane E. Lewin. Foreword Jonathan Culler. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. ISBN: 0801410991.
- An introduction to the main critical ideas of the West (from Plato onward), with special emphasis on Plato, Italian Renaissance Humanism, French Baroque, Enlightenment, and Naturalist thought, German Idealism, and Roman rhetoric (Quintilian). This course attempts to establish a solid critical foundation on aesthetics that would enable graduate and advanced undergraduate students to deal with fundamental ideas--aesthetic and social--developed later by Post-Enlightenment thinkers. The emphasis on rhetoric and discourse during the second part of the semester will also enable all students to write strategically and to develop effective communicative skills.
- By the end of the semester, the students a) will have read primary texts on several aesthetic theories; b) will be able to recognize the main critical ideas of the West; and c) will have developed substantially their critical skills in the following five areas: thinking (factual and critical), reading (descriptive and analytical), writing (sequential and logical), listening (specific and conceptual), and speaking (selective and extensive).
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Addenda:
- 1. Students with disabilities: Any student in this course who has a disability that may prevent him or her from fully demonstrating his or her abilities should contact me personally as soon as possible so we can discuss accomodations necessary to ensure full participation and facilitate your educational opportunities.
- 2. Academic misconduct: Students should be aware that academic misconduct entails severe penalties and the resentment of honest students. For your information, "Academic misconduct includes (a) cheating (using unauthorized materials, information, or study aids in any academic exercise), plagiarism, falsification of records, unauthorized possession of examinations, intimidation, and any and all other actions that may improperly effect the evaluation of a student's academic performance or achievement; (b) assisting others in any such act; or (c) attempts to engage in such acts." Student Code Book, p. 21. For any such act of misconduct a charge must be made. If the charge is proven, the instructor assigns a predetermined grade penalty (maximum of F) and the Provost may take disciplinary action as severe as permanent expulsion. For more detailed information, consult the Student Code Book.
