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ELIT 460

Melancholic Life, Aristotle to Keats

Melancholy isn't a fixed diagnosis but a shifting figure that Western writers keep returning to, and this course tracks how that feeling gets reimagined from Aristotle's Problemata through Burton, Shakespeare, Defoe, Sterne, and the Romantics up to Keats. You'll do close readings of philosophy, theory, and literature side by side, working out arguments in two midterm essays, two short writing assignments, and a final essay rather than answering exam questions. As an upper-level ELIT seminar, it assumes you can already handle a primary text on its own terms and pushes you toward the kind of historically-aware critical writing that the department's capstone work and graduate study expect.

Credit3ECTS5FacultyFaculty of Humanities and LettersBölümEnglish Language and Literature

Değerlendirme 100% — 5 adım

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Midterm Midterm essay 1, Midterm essay 2 50%
Essay Short writing assignment 10%
Final:Essay/written Final essay 30%
In-class participation Participation 10%

Önerilen kaynaklar 4 kitap

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The Merchant of Venice
William Shakespeare
2008 · Oxford World's Classics
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Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
2007 · Oxford World's Classics
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A Sentimental Journey
Laurence Sterne
2001 · Penguin Classics
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Other readings in course pack

Haftalık müfredat 14 hafta

Hafta 1
Course intro; Aristotle, Problemata XXX.I (pages 18-29); Marsilio Ficino, selections from Three Books on Life (pages 113-115); Robert Burton, “Democritus Junior to the Reader” from Anatomy of Melancholy (pages 47-53) (all in course pack)
Hafta 2
selection from Giorgio Agamben, Stanzas (pages 11-14); selection from Sigmund Freud, “Mourning and Melancholia” (pages 243-249); selection from William Shakespeare, Hamlet (all in course pack); short writing assignment 1 due by 23:59 on Saturday, 7 February.
Hafta 3
William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (Act I); selections from Burton (pages 169-170) (Burton selection in course pack)
Hafta 4
Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (Acts 2 and 3)
Hafta 5
Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (Acts 4 and 5); midterm essay 1 due by 23:59 on Saturday, 28 February
Hafta 6
John Milton, selections from Paradise Lost (Book 4, lines 1-535; Book 9, lines 1-203) (in course pack)
Hafta 7
Daniel Defoe, selections from Robinson Crusoe (pages 5-9, 60-97); (no classes 10-11 March)
Hafta 8
Defoe, selections from Robinson Crusoe (pages 167-187); Burton, selections from Anatomy of Melancholy (Burton selection in course pack)
Hafta 9
Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey (pages 5-60)
Hafta 10
Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey (pages 63-118); (no classes 31 March-1 April)
Hafta 11
Charlotte Smith, Beachy Head (in course pack); midterm essay 2 due by 23.59 on Saturday, 11 April.
Hafta 12
William Wordsworth, “Resolution and Independence”; John Keats, “Ode on Melancholy”; Keats, “Ode to a Nightingale” (all in course pack)
Hafta 13
John Keats, The Fall of Hyperion (pages 435-444); Keats, “This living hand” (both in course pack) (no classes on 23 April)
Hafta 14
Keats, The Fall of Hyperion (pages 444-447) (in course pack) (no classes 1 May-2 May) Week 15: Keats, The Fall of Hyperion (pages 447-449); selections from Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness unto Death (pages 17-21) (in course pack); short writing assignment 2 due by 23:59 on Tuesday, 6 May. Week 16: Course wrap-up

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