From Plato to Postmodernism

Course Lecture Titles 1. Thinking Theoretically 2. PlatoKicking out the Poets 3. Aristotle's PoeticsMimesis and Plot 4. Aristotle's PoeticsCharacter and Catharsis 5. Horace's Ars Poetica 6. Longinus on the Sublime 7. Sidney's "Apology for Poetry" 8. Dryden, Pope, and Decorum 9. Burke on the Sublime and Beautiful 10. Kant's Critique of Judgment 11. Schiller on Aesthetics 12. Hegel and the Journey of the Idea 13. Wordsworth, Coleridge, and British Romanticism 14. Mr. Wordsworth's "Preface" 15. ColeridgeTranscendental Philosopher 16. Shelley's Defense of Poetry 17. The Function of CriticismMatthew Arnold and T.S. Eliot 18. The Status of PoetryI.A. Richards and John Crowe Ransom 19. Heresies and FallaciesW.K. Wimsatt and Cleanth Brooks 20. Archetypal TheorySaint Paul to Northrop Frye 21. Origins of Modernism 22. StructuralismFerdinand de Saussure to Michel Foucault 23. Jacques Derrida on Deconstruction 24. Varieties of Postmodernism