ENGL 448 - Seminar: Words and Things

FC ARHU WADV

4 credits
An exploration of the philosophy, theory, and intellectual history of literary/aesthetic representation. What is the relationship between creative ideas–even consciousness itself–and expressive language? Sounds and written symbols? Signifier and Signified? Words and Things? Probable theorists include Aristotle, Plato, Auerbach, Bacon, Sidney, Wittgenstein, Eco, Ong, Saussure, Foucault, Derrida, Latour, and a selection of rich literary works that are attentive to poetic and linguistic making as such. Students will be guided through substantive research papers.