STS 4981

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STS 4981
Romanticism and the Fate of the Senses

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

What if, William Blake once asked, every bird that flies "is an immense world of delight, closed by your senses five?" Asking what real and possible worlds our habits of sensory perception exclude, Romantic poets criticized their culture's increasing faith in sense-based, empirical knowledge - knowledge supposedly free from subjective bias, historical circumstance, national prejudice, and political complicity. This seminar will focus on poetry as a form of sensory re-training and on Romantic and post-Romantic claims to a politics of perception. Can artworks access rival science, non-human experience, or otherwise unthinkable histories - or sensually suspend the pressure to do so? Readings from Blake, Keats, Dickinson, Goethe, Locke, Foucault, Latour, Daston, Rancière, Bourdieu, Williams, de Man, Adorno, Terada, Stewart, and Hartman.

When Offered Spring.

Permission Note Enrollment limited to: 15 students.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 4019, ENGL 4491, SHUM 4991

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17032 STS 4981   SEM 101

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