UnivIS
Informationssystem der Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg © Config eG 
Zur Titelseite der Universität Bamberg
  Sammlung/Stundenplan Home  |  Anmelden  |  Kontakt  |  Hilfe 
Suche:      Semester:   
 
 Darstellung
 
Druckansicht

 
 
 Außerdem im UnivIS
 
Veranstaltungskalender

 
 
Vorlesungsverzeichnis >> Fakultät Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften >>

  The Novel of Sense(s): Reason, Sentiment, and Subjectivity

Dozent/in
Prof. Dr. Christoph Houswitschka

Angaben
Hauptseminar
2 SWS
Erweiterungsbereich
Zeit und Ort: Do 16:00 - 18:00, MG2/01.02

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09):
freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS

LA GY:
Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)

MA English and American Studies:
Master Module English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Profile Module English and American Literature I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Consolidation Module English and American Literature I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)

Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies:
Master Module or Profile Module I or III English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)

Erasmus and other visiting students:
Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.10.2018 (10:00) - 10.01.2019(23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt
In the eighteenth century, the difference between external and internal senses was not regarded to be easily defined. While Shaftesbury continued to see an analogy between the perceptions of external beauty and moral sense, Hutchinson rather argued that internal senses receive pleasure from complex ideas, the external senses from simple ones, both senses being informed by what Locke calls ideas. Later in the century, Kames explains that senses, “whether external or internal, are all of them powers or faculties of mind.” Tasting, touching, and smelling are merely corporeal; only in the mind they acquire a more refined and spiritual quality informed by reason and sentiment. Therefore, “everything clever and agreeable is comprehended in that word . . . a sentimental man . . . a sentimental party . . . a sentimental walk” as Lady Bradshaugh concludes (1749, quoted from Williams). In the later eighteenth century, the association with sensibility, in the sense of “a conscious openness to feelings, and also a conscious consumption of feelings,” causes a continual degeneration of sentiment, eventually meaning uncontrolled feelings.

The subjectivity of perception introduces new aspects of ideas shaped by external and internal senses, reception as discussed by Burke and the participation of the individual developing taste and moral sense on the basis of reason and sentiment. The novel of sense(s) examines these processes of the mind that guide people or mislead them to act inappropriately (Austen). Sentimental journeys could expose the traveler to unexpected perceptions (Sterne) and reading could transform the perception of the ordinary world into a parody (Austen). Other writers provoked their readers into abandoning the complex pleasures of the mind when confronted with the pain caused by simple, but extreme external senses. Smollett could evoke smells, touches, sounds and visual images that terrified and hurt readers. In his novels, physiological and medical concepts of the senses seem to prevail rather than philosophical ones.

Empfohlene Literatur
Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
Henry Mackenzie. The Man of Feeling.

Englischsprachige Informationen:
Credits: 8

Institution: Lehrstuhl für Englische Literaturwissenschaft

Hinweis für Web-Redakteure:
Wenn Sie auf Ihren Webseiten einen Link zu dieser Lehrveranstaltung setzen möchten, verwenden Sie bitte einen der folgenden Links:

Link zur eigenständigen Verwendung

Link zur Verwendung in Typo3

UnivIS ist ein Produkt der Config eG, Buckenhof