AJ24075 Aesthetics, Aestheticism and the Novel

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2004
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 2 credits for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Stephen Paul Hardy, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Michaela Hrazdílková
Timetable
Mon 18:20–19:55 31
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 15 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/15, only registered: 0/15, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/15
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The course will consider developments in modern aesthetics and related contemporary debates in the British context. Novels considered will include 'The Portrait of A Lady'by Henry James and 'Ulysses' by James Joyce and 'Brideshead Revisited' by Evelyn Waugh
Syllabus (in Czech)
  • Week 1 No lesson - Rektorsky Volno Week 2 Oct 4th:Introductory Week 3.Oct.11th:Portrait of a Lady (1); Wilson: Solomon (Prel & 1):Enl./Rom/Rousseau; Bowie:Introd; Eagleton: Intro & Hume Week 4.Oct 18th:Portrait of a Lady (2);Solomon(2)Kant; Bowie(2)Kant:Eagleton: Kant Week 5.Oct 25th:Rainbow(1);Leavis (3)Solomon(3) Fichte, Schiller;Bowie(3,4)(Romantics/Idealists,)Schiller (Eagleton) Week 6.Nov 1st:Rainbow(2);Pinkney; Solomon (4) Schelling,Hegel; Bowie (5); Eagleton (Hegel) Week 7:Nov 8th Ulysses(1); Solomon (5)Schopenhauer; Bowie(6,)Schleiermacher Eagleton; Schopenhauer Week 8.Nov 15th: Ulysses(2);McCabe; Solomon (6)Kierkegaard, Feurbach, Marx ; Bowie (7) Music, Lang & Lit; Eagleton: Marx,Kierkegaard Week 9.Nov 22nd:Ulysses(3);Lodge; Solomon(8) Nietzsche; Bowie (8) Nietzsche; Eagleton (Nietzsche) Week 10:Nov 29th Mrs Dalloway (1);A Room of One's Own; Moi; Solomon (11) Heidegger; Bowie (Heidegger); Eagleton (Heidegger) Week 11:Dec 6th: Mrs Dalloway (2): Brideshead Revisited (1); Bowie: Benjamin; Eagleton: Benjamin Week 12.Dec 13th: Brideshead Revisited (2); Bowie: Adorno; Eagleton: Adorno ALL READINGS OTHER THAN THE NOVELS & SOLOMON ARE OPTIONAL
Literature
  • Deleuze G. & Guattari F. What is Philosophy? London Verso 1994
  • Jameson, Frederic The Political Unconscious London Routledge 1989 (1981)
  • Lodge, David After Bakhtin London Routledge 1990
  • Deleuze G.& Guattari F. Kafka: Towards A Minor Literature Minneapolis Univ. of Minnesota Press 1986
  • Bowie, Andrew Aesthetics and Subjectivity: from Kant to Nietzsche (2nd ed.) Manchester MUP 2003
  • Rorty, Richard Contingency, Irony & Solidarity Cambridge Cambridge Univ.Press 1989
  • Bowlby, Rache (ed.) Virginia Woolf London Longman 1992
  • McCabe, Colin James Joyce and the Revolution of the Word London Macmillan 1979
  • Pinkney, Tony D. H. Lawrence Melton Mowbray Harvester Wheatsheaf 1992
  • Eagleton, Terry The Ideology of the Aesthetic Oxford Blackwell 1990
  • Freedman, Jonathan (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Henry James Cambridge CUP 1998
  • SOLOMON, Robert C. Continental philosophy since 1750 : the rise and fall of the self. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988, viii, 214. ISBN 0192892029. info
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
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