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The course aims to provide the participants with a forum for the discussion and analysis of the variegated texts of one of the most influential streams of thought of the American antebellum period: Transcendentalism. On the basis of the tracts, essays, articles, and poems of such authors as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Margaret Fuller, and others, participants will examine Transcendentalism’s philosophical and theological origins in Unitarianism and Idealism, its location in current contemporary sociopolitical discourses pertaining to the Age of Reform and expansionism, as well as its formal literary characteristics. Furthermore, students will have an opportunity to explore Transcendentalism’s influence on subsequent generations of American writers. Information regarding course requirements will be provided in the first session.
Beginn: 05.05.2015 |
