ENGL 5140 is also offered in Spring 2024
ENGL 5140 is also offered in Fall 2022
Fall 2022 | ENGL 5140 Section 001: Readings in 18th Century Literature and Culture -- The Rise of the Public Sphere: Criticism and Taste (31620)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
Delivery Mode
Topics Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- Graduate Student
- Meets With:
EMS 5500 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, East Bank
Pillsbury Hall 212
- Enrollment Status:
Open (7 of 13 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Literature written in English, 1660-1798. Topics may include British literature of Reformation and 18th century, 18-century American literature, a genre (e.g., 18th-century novel). prereq: Grad student or instr consent
- Class Notes:
- The Rise of the Public Sphere: Criticism and Taste 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 ones by Habermas, Luhmann, and Bourdieu.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/31620/1229
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