Academics > Special Courses - Summer/Fall 2008 Special Courses - Summer/Fall 2008Summer 2008 ENG402: Capstone Seminar in Major Authors of the British Isles: John Keats In this seminar, devoted to the Romantic-era poet John Keats (1795-1821), we will pay particular attention to the formal-aesthetic dimension of the poetry (close-reading the poems together in class, as well as examining critical articles on the poems). We will also examine the historical context of Keats’s works, locating these in relation to his life and times, while noting ways Keats’s works transcend his time speaking profoundly to succeeding generations. The readings for the course will include selections from Keats’s poetry and letters, some biographical materials, as well as a range of critical writings.
Fall 2008 In this seminar we will read and interpret Dante’s 14th-century major work, The Divine Comedy, in light of 20th-century Jungian psychological theory. While focusing on Dante, the course also will provide an introduction to Jung and practice in Jungian criticism. A broad goal of the course is to prepare you (beyond our seminar) to be able to employ Jungian thought in reading (and for education majors—teaching) other literary texts, as well as in interpreting visual art, film and contemporary music. We’ll practice this. The Jungian concepts we’ll examine specifically are: the collective unconscious; archetypes of the collective unconscious; extraversion and introversion; the personality types; and synchronicity—all in relation to what Jung termed the individuation process.
|
 |
 |
 |
