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| Semester | spring semester 2019 |
| Course frequency | Irregular |
| Lecturers | Ridvan Askin (ridvan.askin@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | In this course we will read selected poems by British and American Romantic poets including, among others, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, William Wordsworth, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Edgar Allan Poe. We will also devote some time to lesser known authors and women writers (two groups which, unfortunately, tend to overlap). Since the romantics did not just write poetry but also theorized it - romanticism was very much a literary-philosophical project - we will also engage with their reflections on poetic, aesthetic, and overall philosophical issues ranging from the romantic understanding of aesthetic experience and the sublime to discussions of the role of the imagination in human cognition to the concept of the genius to theorizations of the human relation to nature. |
| Learning objectives | In addition to refining their skills in the analysis of poetry, students taking this course will acquire expertise in one of the richest and most intriguing periods of literary history. |
| Bibliography | All reading materials will be made available on ADAM. |
| Weblink | ADAM |
| Admission requirements | This seminar is for BA students on the advanced level who have completed ALL three introductory modules (including the proseminar papers). |
| Course application | Please register by email to ridvan.askin@unibas.ch and do not forget to sign up via MOnA. Note that places are limited to 25. Once the course is fully booked, you will need to sign up for one of the department's alternative offerings. |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | Online, mandatory |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
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No dates available. Please contact the lecturer.
| Modules |
Modul: Advanced Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies (Bachelor's degree subject: English) |
| Assessment format | continuous assessment |
| Assessment details | Regular attendance, active participation, oral presentation |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
| Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | as often as necessary |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Fachbereich Englische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft |