British Poetry Seminar I (G11964)

Spring 2019

Chankil Park(ckpark@ewha.ac.kr, 316 Humanities Bd., Office Hour: Thursday 14:00-15:00, Tel: 02-3277-2160)

Class: Humanities 201,  Thursday 15:30-18:15

The main focus of this course is to explore the meaning of Bildung in the British Romantic Poetry. A couple of famous German texts which established the concept of Bildung will be read in English translation along with its classical German examples such as Goethe’s The Apprenticeship of Wilhelm Meister and Novalis’s Henry of Ofterdingen also in English(or Korean) translation. Wordsworth’s The Prelude and Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, however, are the main reading texts of this class because they are the typical examples of Bildung materialized in the poetic narrative of British Romanticism. Two essay proposals(1-2 pages, A4) should be written during the course, one of which, after detailed comments, should be developed into the final term paper.

Texts

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; tr. by Thomas Carlyle, Wilhelm Meister’s apprenticeship and travels, New York: WM. L. Allison, 1886.  Or pdf version prepared by Bartleby.com (http://www.bartleby.com/ebook/adobe/314.pdf)

Friedrich von Hardenberg(Novalis), Henry of Ofterdingen(Heinrich von Ofterdingen): A Romance. E-book prepared by Project Gutenberg.

William Wordsworth, The fourteen-book Prelude(The Cornell Wordsworth), W.J.B.  Owen ed. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1985. The main text is also available from The Poems of William Wordsworth: Collected Reading Texts from the Cornell Wordsworth vol. III edited by Jared Curtis, Humanities-Ebooks, 2009.

George Gordon Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage: A Romaunt, Canto I-IV edited by John Murray in 1814, an annotated edition available from Internet.

Evaluation: Two Essay proposals 20%, Attendance and Class Performance 10%, One Term Paper 70%

Tentative Reading Schedule

March

7           Introduction: What is Bildung and why does it matter in English Romanticism?

14         The German idea of Bildung  

21         The Theory of Bildung and English Romanticism

April

4           Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister’s apprenticeship

11          Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister’s apprenticeship

18         The Prelude of 1805 Book 1-2

25         The Prelude of 1805 Book 3-8

May

2          Continued

9          The Prelude of 1805 Book 9-13

16        George Gordon Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage Canto I

23        George Gordon Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage Canto II

30        George Gordon Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage Canto III-IV

June

6          Friedrich Schiller, “On the Aesthetic Education of Man”

13        Friedrich von Hardenberg(Novalis), Heinrich von Ofterdingen

20        Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Alastor”

Select References

Behler, Ernst. German Romantic Literary Theory. Cambridge UP, 1993. Print. Cambridge Studies in German.

Beiser, Frederick C.,. The Romantic Imperative: The Concept of Early German Romanticism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. Print.

Bruford, W. H. The German Tradition of Self-Cultivation: 'Bildung' from Humboldt to Thomas Mann. Cambridge UP, 1975. Print.

Campos, Julia. "Bildung Reloaded-Educational Challenges for a Globalized World." L2 Journal 7.4 (2015): 20-37. Print.

Frank, Manfred. The Philosophical Foundations of Early German Romanticism. Trans. Elizabeth Millan-Zaibert. Albany: SUNY Press, 2004.

Franzel, Sean. "Recycling Bildung: From the Humboldt-Forum to Humboldt and Back." Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 50.3 (2014): 379-97. Print.

Gorman, David. "A Bibliography of German Romantic Literary Criticism and Theory in English." Style 28.4 (1994): 500-24. Print.

Hammermeister, Kai. The German Aesthetic Tradition. Cambridge UP, 2002. Print.

Heidt, Irene. "Exploring the Historical Dimensions of Bildung and its Metamorphosis in the Context of Globalization." L2 Journal 7.4 (2015): 2-16. Print.

Hu, Adelheid. "The Idea of Bildung in the Current Educational Discourse: A Response to Irene Heidt." L2 Journal 7.4 (2015): 17-9. Print.

Jeffers, Thomas L. Apprenticeships: The Bildungsroman from Goethe to Santayana. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Print.

Kooy, Michael John. Coleridge, Schiller and Aesthetic Education. Palgrave, 2002. Print.

Mahoney, Dennis F.,. The Literature of German Romanticism. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2004. Print. Camden House History of German Literature.

Pfau, Thomas. "Of Ends and Endings: Teleological and Variational Models of Romantic Narrative." European Romantic Review 18.2 (2007): 231-41. Print.

Pio, Frederik. "Response to Øivind Varkøy, “The Concept of ‘Bildung’”." Philosophy of Music Education Review 18.1 (2010): 97-100. Print.

Ringer, Fritz. "Bildung: The Social and Ideological Context of the German Historical Tradition." History of European Ideas 10.2 (1989): 193-202. Print.

Schiller, Friedrich von,. Aesthetical and Philosophical Essays. Charleston, S.C.: BiblioBazaar, [2007]. Print.

Schulte-Sasse, Jochen, Haynes Horne. Theory as Practice: a Critical Anthology of Early German Romantic Writings. Minneapolis: Minnesota UP, 1997. Print.

Sorkin, David. "Wilhelm Von Humboldt: The Theory and Practice of Self-Formation (Bildung), 1791-1810." Journal of the History of Ideas 44.1 (1983): 55-73. Print.

Varkøy, Øivind. "The Concept of “Bildung”." Philosophy of Music Education Review 18.1 (2010): 85-96. Print.