Fall 2017  |  ENGL 8140 Section 001: Seminar in 18th Century Literature and Culture -- The Rise of the Public Sphere: Criticism and Taste (34651)

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Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
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Topics Course
Meets With:
EMS 8250 Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017
Tue 02:30PM - 05:00PM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 202
Course Catalog Description:
Advanced study of literature written in English, 1660-1798. Topics may include British literature of Reformation and 18th century, 18th-century American literature, a genre (e.g., 18th-century novel). prereq: Grad student or instr consent
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?ayahav+ENGL8140+Fall2017
Class Description:
Joseph Addison famously declared "I have brought philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools and colleges to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and in coffee houses" (Spectator 10); with this statement he signals a discourse on ethics and aesthetics located in a commercial arena whose authority rests in publicness and wide participation. This association of judgment with a public sphere has important ramifications for aesthetic theory, which we will explore throughout the semester: the shift in focus to the receiving end of art, an examination of the normativity of taste, a privileging of contemporary writings, and a commitment to the relation between, on the one hand, cultural production and consumption and, on the other, specific (often national) communities. Readings will include works by a range of eighteenth-century writers - from Addison, through Diderot, to Kant - as well as twentieth-century theoretical and scholarly studies such as Habermas, Luhmann, and Bourdieu.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34651/1179
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
17 July 2017

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