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Postgraduate Handbook 2007-2008 (archived)

Module ENGL51930: The Foundations of Romantic Aesthetics

Department: English Studies

ENGL51930: The Foundations of Romantic Aesthetics

Type Level Credits Availability Module Cap Location
Open 4 30 Available in 2007/2008 Durham

Pre-requisites

  • None

Corequisites

  • None

Excluded Combinations

  • None

Aims

  • to enable students to achieve a more profound understanding and appreciation of literature of the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by developing a detailed knowledge of the most important developments in aesthetic theory from the time of Hobbes, Locke and Addison, and reading (or re-reading) a wide range of literary texts in the light of that knowledge.

Content

Learning Outcomes

Subject-specific Knowledge
  • Students will gain detailed, first-hand knowledge of the epistemological and aesthetic theories of British empiricist philosophers, and of thw way in which Kant and Coleridge both developed and reacted against empiricist thought.
  • Seminars focusing on literary texts (some of which the students are likely to be familiar with, some of which are likely to be new) will alternate with philosophical ones, so that students can identify and explore the literary effects of the theories studied, and so achieve a deeper understanding of the literature.
Subject-specific Skills
Key Skills

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

ActivityNumberFrequencyDurationTotal HoursAttendance Monitored
Seminars 0
Preparation and Reading 0
Total 300

Summative Assessment

ComponentComponent WeightingElementLength/DurationElement WeightingResit Opportunity
Coursework 100% Essay 3000 words 50%
Essay 3000 words 50%

Formative Assessment

One essay (2,000 words maximum).

Students who do not attend monitored activities shown under Teaching Methods and Learning Hours, or who fail to complete the summative or formative assessment(s) specified above, may be subject to the Academic Progress procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University.