Romanticism and Decreation - Einzelansicht

Dieser Kurs wird von Frau Dr. Jenniffer Wawrzinek angeboten.

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The history of Romanticism scholarship has generally been preoccupied with what can only be described as the cult of the subject. Yet several Romantic writers around the turn of the nineteenth century can be seen to demonstrate an acute awareness of the problems associated with the assertion of the autonomous self, even if it is in the realm of politics and for the purpose of vindicating rights. This course aims to move beyond the concern with self and identity that has preoccupied traditional, and even more progressive, accounts of the field, in order to consider the ways in which some writers during the Romantic period can be seen to disrupt, destabilise, or altogether entirely erase the subject that has otherwise been seen as the distinctive innovation of Romanticism. Over the course of the semester, students will examine modern theories of decreation, from Simone Weil to Giorgio Agamben and Anne Carson, alongside the work of both canonical and non-canonical Romantic writers of the turn of the nineteenth century in order to consider to what extent the decreated subject allows Romantic writers a means of thinking new forms of politics and ethics in the socio-political climate of post-Revolutionary Europe.

Dieser Kurs wird von Frau Dr. Jenniffer Wawrzinek angeboten.

Keats, John. ed Letters. Penguin Classics. Weil, Simone. War and the Illiad. Routledge. Wordsworth, Dorothy. The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals. Oxford World’s Classics. Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark. Penguin Classics. A course reader will be available on blackboard prior to the start of semester.