Truth & the Poet: Lyric Subjectivity and Phenomenology
COL 309
Fall 2018
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01
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| Certificates: Writing |
Who is the poet? What is subjectivity? How is the "Lyric I" located and articulated? How do lyrics reify their own claims to truth? Is there a role for the poet in society? What is the relationship between critique and creation? This course examines the poet in relation to various formulations of subjectivity in the history of phenomenology. We will explore how lyric subjectivity may speak truth without deferring to or differing from empirical and objective truth claims. We will consider whether the history of the lyric can be read as a series of observations that contribute to understandings of subjectivity, agency, and intersubjectivity before and after the theological turn in French phenomenology. Readings in lyric poetry will be paired with readings in phenomenology as a way of putting poetry and philosophy into conversation. Assignments will be both analytic and creative. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA COL |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Credit/Unsatisfactory |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (COL)(CSCT) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 75% - 89% |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Selected Poems: Dante, Petrarch, Garcilaso, Du Bellay, Sidney, Quevedo, Goethe, Holderlin, Buadelaire, Rimbaud, Becquer, Rilke, Mistral, Stevens, Plath, Dylan. Lyrical Prose Selections: Proust and Woolf Philosophical Prose Selections: Plato, Aristotle, Ficino, Descartes, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Husserl, Hiedegger, Levinas, Deleuze
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Examinations and Assignments:
1-5 page selections of lyric verse will be supplemented by 20-50 pages of lyrical or philosophical prose each week. Students will have the option to complete three major written assignments in a creative or in an analytic format. |
| Instructor(s): Ponce-Hegenauer,Gabrielle Piedad Times: .M.W... 10:50AM-12:10PM; Location: BOGH115; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 18 | | SR major: 4 | JR major: 3 | | |
| Seats Available: 9 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 4 | JR non-major: 4 | SO: 3 | FR: 0 |
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