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Spring, 20004
Katherine Arens
k.arens@mail.utexas.edu
Germanic Languages, E.P. Schoch 3.128; 471-4123
Office Hours: TTH 8:00-9:30 and by appointment
Week 1: January 20, 22
TU: Introduction to the Course
TH: Wellek, Concepts of Criticism
-"The Concept of Romanticism in Literary History," 128-198-"Romanticism Re-Examined," 199-221
Week 2: January 27, 29
TU: Porter, ed., Romanticism in National Context
-"Romanticism in Germany," 109-133-"Romanticism in England," 37-67
-"Romanticism in France," 240-259
Jauß, Question and Answer, "Rousseau's Nouvelle Héloïse and Goethe's Werther," 148-196
TH: Prototype, I
Rousseau, Confessions
TU: Prototype, II
Goethe, Sorrows of Young WertherPart 2: German Romanticism**Precis due: either Rousseau or Goethe
TH: Philosophical Roots, I
Wellek, A History of Modern Criticism, 2: The Romantic Age, 1-109Wellek, Discriminations, "I. Kant's Aesthetics and Criticism," 122-142
Schiller, "Über Bürgers Gedichte," Klassik, 75-92
= "On Bürger's Poetry," in Chamberlin, ed., Eighteenth-Century Criticism, 262-74
Schiller, Kallias
C.F. also Lovejoy, Essays in the History of Ideas, # 9, 10, 11
Week 4: February 10. 12
TU: Philosophical Roots, II
Behler, ed., Philosophy of German Idealism-Fichte, "A Crystal Clear Report to the General Public," 39-115-Schelling, "Ideas on a Philosophy of Nature," 167-202
---, "Deduction of a universal Organ of Philosophy," 203-216
Wellek, A History of Modern Criticism, 2: The Romantic Age, 298-334
**Precis due: Schiller, Fichte, or Schelling
TH: Literary Theory
Behler, ed., German Romantic Criticism-Richter, 31-61-F. Schlegel, 84-133
-Humboldt, 134-161
-A.W. Schlegel, 175-218
-Grimm, 257-292
Romantik I, Pt. I, Pt. VI
**Precis due: any criticism essay
TU: Bildungsideal: The Romantic Hero(ine)
Schlegel, LucindeRomantik II, Section II
TH: Poetry and the Poetic: The Issue of Phantasy
Novalis, Hymns to the NightRomantik I, Pt. II
Romantik II, Pt. III
**Precis due: Novalis, any Hymn
TU: Nachtseite: German Gothic
E.T.A. Hoffmann, "Der Sandmann" ("The Nutcracker") or"Der goldene Topf" (in Romantik II)Eichendorff, "Das Marmorbild"
Tieck, "Der blonde Eckbert" (in Romantik II)
Chamisso, "Peter Schlemihl" (in Romantik II)
Arnim, "Der tolle Invalide"
**NOTE: http://www.fln.vcu.edu//menu.html has English for "Fair Eckbert", "Sandman"
**Precis due: any tale
**Test One passed out
TH: Comedy, Fairy-Tale, Irony, and Satire
Romantik I, Part III (Ironie)Schlegel, Fragments (on romantic irony)
Tieck, Der gestiefelte Kater (in Romantik II)
Jean Paul, Schulmeisterlein Wuz
Heine, any poetry
Part 3: English Romanticism
Week 7: March 2, 4TU: German Sources (Non-Romantic!)
Schiller, Über naive und sentimentalische Dichtung= Naive and Sentimental Poetry**Test One due back
TH: The "Ossian" Issue
Romantik I, Part IV (Nationalism and Folk Poetry)Behler, ed., German Romantic Criticism
-Grimm, 257-292Chamberlin, ed., Eighteenth-Century Criticism
-Herder, Extract from "Correspondence on Ossian" 132-42-skim Herder, Goethe, and Bürger segments, as well
Herder, "Humanität," Klassik, 42-61
Robert Burns, Norton, 89-108
**Precis due: any Burns poem (in light of Ossian and folk poetry)
TU: Romantic Creativity and Poetry, I
Blake, Norton, passimColeridge, Biographia Literaria, Norton, 386-409
-Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, PhantomWellek, History of Modern Criticism, 2: Romantic Age, 110-29, 151-87
TH: Romantic Creativity and Poetry, II
Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads, Norton, 155-170-Tinturn Abbey, The Prelude (esp. 1, 5, 12-14)Byron, Childe Harolde, Darkness, Don Juan
Shelley, Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, Prometheus Unbound
Keats, Chapman's Homer, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Hyperion
(NB: compare Goethe's Prometheus, Hölderlin's Hyperion)Wellek, History of Mod. Criticism, 2: Romantic Age, 130-50, 188-215
**Precis due: Biographia Litteraria or Preface to Lyrical Ballads
SPRING BREAK: MARCH 15-19
TU: Philosophical Satire
Carlyle, Sartor Resartus (NB: compare Jean Paul, Schulmeisterlein Wuz)
TH: Historicals
Scott, Waverley (NB: compare Ardinghello, any Schiller)
Week 10: March 30. April 1
TU: Gothic, Night Side, I
De Quincy, Opium-Eater, Norton, 462-479Wollstonecraft, Rights of Woman, Norton, 108-140
(NB: compare Hoffmann, Topf, Melville, Moby Dick)**Precis due: Sartor, Waverley, or Frankenstein
TH: Gothic, Night Side, II
Shelley, Frankenstein(NB: compare M.G. Lewis, The Monk, Le Fanu; Maturin, Melmoth; Radclyffe, Ugolino)
Part 4: French Romanticism
Week 11: April 6, 8TU: The Vectors, I
de Stael, De L'Allemagne, Part 2 (= On Germany)Humboldt, Essais aesthétiques (photocopy)
Wellek, History of Modern Criticism, 2: The Romantic Age, 216-240
**Paper on prose due (see description)
TH: The Vectors, II
Heine, The Romantic School and Other Essays-"The Romantic School," 1-127-"Concerning the History of Religion and Philosophy," 128-244
-"Letters on Germany," 284-294
-"Various Conceptions of History," 258-260
**Precis due: any essay
TU: Romantic Hero, Revisited
Balzac, Le Lys dans la vallée, Lagarde, 303-07, 317-21= Lily of the Valley, passimChateaubriand, René, Atala, Lagarde, 32-43
Constant, Adolphe, Lagarde, 22-25
Sand, La Mare au Diable, Lagarde, 295-98
TH: Historicism, History
Michelet, Taine, Renan, Sainte-Beuve, Lagarde, 361-81, 385-403Stendhal, La Chartreuse de Parme, Lagarde, 338-348
=Charterhouse of Parma, passimHugo, Les Miserables, Notre-Dame de Paris, Lagarde, 153-162, 195- 204
Wellek, History of Modern Criticism, 2: The Romantic Age, 241-259
TU: Nightside, Lyricism
Vigny, Lamartine, Gautier, Nerval, Baudelaire - Lagarde, passim, see esp. 431, 433 ("Elevations," "Correspondences")= Baudelaire, Poems**Precis due: any poem
TH: End of the Movement
Flaubert, Éducation sentimentale
TU: LECTURE: From Postwar Romanticisms to PoMo Romanticisms -see bibliography on book list
TH: Class Presentations
Week 15: May 4, 6
TU: Class Presentations
TH: Closing Discussion