Instructor: James H. Donelan
Email: donelan@humanitas.ucsb.edu
Tuesday, Thursday 9:30-10:45
HSSB 1215 Enroll No.: 45229
Office Hours: Monday 9:00-10:00; Tuesday 2:00-3:00 or by appointment.
Office: Girvetz 1310

 Literature Essay Topics

Texts:
Bübner, German Idealist Philosophy
Shelley, Frankenstein
Vaughan, Romanticism and Art
A writing handbook (to be decided in class)
Books are available at the UCen book store.
A reader available at Graphikart in Isla Vista

Course Description: The course will allow students to refine their skills in scholarship and writing in several humanistic disciplines. Students will address the issues of evidence, interpretation, and critique within each individual discourse and as part of a general understanding of the humanities.

Requirements: The course requires regular attendance, active participation in class discussion and activities, and timely completion of all assignments, including reading journal entries, a short essay (5-6 pages), an annotated bibliography, and one longer essay (8-10 pages). Students will also give an oral presentation on a topic related to the longer essay.

In addition, please do your best to observe the following rules:

• Good, clean printing on all word-processed assignments: no draft-output setting or faint cartridges.
• Use twelve point type, in Times New Roman or CG Times.
• Do not alter the font size or line spacing in order to change the length of the paper.
• No tractor feed paper; copy onto clean-edged paper if you must. No disks.
• Papers should be no longer or shorter than the length assigned and submitted on time.
• Papers should be delivered to my mailbox in South Hall by noon on the date due or in class the same day. Late papers will result in grade reductions.
• Never hand in a paper without proofreading it carefully.
• Your classmates and your instructor depend on your presence in class and your full participation. Do not miss class unless you must.
• If you are unfamiliar with university policy regarding plagiarism and academic dishonesty, please read the university regulations.

9/30
Introduction and Logistics

I: Poetry: The Wordsworths and the Shelleys

10/5
Vaughan, Chapter 1
Wordsworth, The Prelude, Book I

10/7
Wordsworth, The Prelude, Book VI
Lindenberger, "Images of Interaction in The Prelude
Hartman, "Via Natualiter Negativa"

10/12
Liu, "The History in ‘Imagination’"
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Volume II

10/14
Library Visit—Room 1414C, Davidson Library

10/19
Darlington, "Reclaiming Dorothy Wordsworth’s Legacy"
Homans, "Introduction to Women Writers and Poetic Identity

10/21
Percy Shelley, "The Triumph of Life"
Abrams, "English Romanticism: The Spirit of the Age"
Rajan, "The Broken Mirror"

10/22
Essay on Poetry Due

II: Philosophy: German Idealism

10/26
Kant, Excerpt from Critique of Pure Reason and "Idea of a Universal History" in German Idealist Philosophy

10/28
Fichte, Introduction to Science of Knowledge
Excerpt from Hegel for Beginners (reader)
Hegel, Introduction to The Phenomenology of Spirit

11/2
Hegel, excerpt from The Philosophical History of the World

III: History and Culture

11/4
Vaughan, Chapter 3
Jacobus, "Geometric Writing and Romantic History"

Prospectus Due

11/9
Keegan, "Wellington: The Anti-Hero"

11/11
Hughes, "A Horse Foaled by an Acorn"
Gaull, "Science"

11/11
Annotated Bibliography Due

IV: Music: Beethoven

11/18
Beethoven, Symphony No. 3  Instructions for the Listening Assignment
Burnham, "Beethoven’s Hero"

11/23
Beethoven continued.
Outline Due

11/25
Happy Thanksgiving!

V: Art: Constable, Turner, and Friedrich

11/30
Vaughan, Chapters 5 and 6
Kroeber, "Wordsworth and Turner"

12/2
Vaughan, Chapters 7 and 8
Friedrich (reserve)
Rough Draft Due

12/7
Oral Presentations.

12/9
Final Class. Evaluation and assessment of class.

12/10
Final Essay Due.

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