8. ENGL 214, Fall 2010 René Descartes (“ergo cogito sum”: “I think therefore I am”)
9. ENGL 214, Fall 2010 “Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. ... Sapereaude! [Dare to know!] ‘Have courage to use your own reason!’- that is the motto of enlightenment.” -- German Philosopher, Immanual Kant - “What is Enlightenment?” (Was istÄufklarung?) (1784)
10. ENGL 214, Fall 2010 Reason (science, philosophy) is the final authority, not theology or kings
18. ENGL 214, Fall 2010 “Romance” - mythic narrative, fantasy, imaginary writing, often involving a quest (Sir Walter Raleigh, King Arthur tales, Don Quixote)
19. ENGL 214, Fall 2010 Philosophical Romanticism: German philosophy (Hegel, Schelling, Novalis) - stress on ‘organic’ principle, harmony between part and the whole
20. ENGL 214, Fall 2010 Literary Romanticism: British Literature, especially poetry (Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, Coleridge)
21. ENGL 214, Fall 2010 revolt against the ‘classicist’ rules of literary composition
22. ENGL 214, Fall 2010 return to nature, esp. as source of goodness/innocence
23. ENGL 214, Fall 2010 Importance of the sensual over the intellectual (sensuous language): revolt against Enlightenment logic and abstraction
24. ENGL 214, Fall 2010 emphasis on the artist as individual creator and literature as expression of this individuality
25. ENGL 214, Fall 2010 William Blake: revolt against the book as a “machine”; mass reproducibility is an affront to the originality of art
