FF:ESA775 Imagination, Metaphysics, and - Course Information

ESA775 Imagination, Metaphysics, and the Human Mind

Extent and Intensity

1/1. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).

Teacher(s)

prof. PhDr. Petr Osolsobě, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

prof. PhDr. Petr Osolsobě, Ph.D.
Department of Aesthetics – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Petr Osolsobě, Ph.D.

Timetable

Thu 16:40–18:15 C31

Prerequisites

Interest in poetry, esp. so-called metaphysical poetry, and in contemporary questions of cognition and imaginative process, and of human mind.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• English Language and Literature (programme FF, N-FI) (2)
• English Language and Literature (programme FF, N-HS)
• Aesthetics and Culture Studies (programme FF, N-HS)
• Aesthetics and Culture Studies (programme FF, N-OT) (2)
• Aesthetics (programme FF, B-HS)
• Aesthetics (programme FF, B-OT) (2)
• Aesthetics (programme FF, M-HS)
• Aesthetics (programme FF, M-OT)
• Combined Art Studies (programme FF, B-HS)
• Combined Art Studies (programme FF, B-OT) (2)
• Theatre Science (programme FF, B-HS)
• Theatre Science (programme FF, B-OT)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in English Language and Literature (programme FF, N-SS)

Course objectives

The course introduces into the works of the metaphysical poets, learns better to understand it and to appreciate it, especially in the light of the contemporary cognitive science and philosophy of mind.

Syllabus

• What is the metaphysical poetry ? First definitions and descriptions.
• How does/can poetry transcend our empirical knowledge, using its matter, images, relations in order to find/construct "cognitive pattern".
• Classic definitions of the metaphysical poetry - Johnson, Eliot, and others.
• Some impulses from the cognitive sciences (Damasio, Sacks, Hofstadter, Nussbaum, Searle, and others)
• Examples of the metaphysical poetry: Shakespeare, Southwell, Hopkins, Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, Tolkien

Literature

• Shakespearovy Sonety
• T. S. Eliot: The Metaphysical Poets
• SHAKESPEARE, William. The sonnets of William Shakespeare & Henry Wriothesley, third earl of Southampton : together with A lover's complaint and The phoenix & turtle. Edited by Walter Thomson. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1938, 199 p. ; 2. info

Teaching methods

Close reading, class discussion.

Assessment methods

Colloquium, that is a kind of learned conversation on subject-matter.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Kurs určen především pokročilejším studentům počínaje 3. rokem studia. bsolvování některého tématického kursu přednášejícího: Augustin, Dante, Shakespeare, Kierkegaard

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