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HU Credits:
4
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
General & Compar. Literature
Semester:
Yearly
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
David Fishelov
Coordinator Office Hours:
By appointment: Tuesday, 14-15
Teaching Staff:
Prof David Fishelov
Course/Module description:
We will read selected works from the literature and the philosophy of the eighteenth century in England and France. In addition to several famous travel stories, we will read texts that shape interesting tensions between nature and culture, optimism and pessimism, faith and skepticism, masters and servants. We will read works by Defoe, Montesquieu, Swift, Voltaire, Fielding, Diderot, among others.
Course/Module aims:
To learn selected works, authors, topics, and genres of the eighteenth-century in England and France, and to discuss them critically
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
On successful completion of this module, students should be able to critically describe selected works of the eighteenth-century in England and France, and of topics that occupied contemporary authors and thinkers
Attendance requirements(%):
85
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Lecture and discussion
Course/Module Content:
1. Intorduction
2. Selection from The Great Encyclopedia
3. Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
4. Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
5. Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
6. Voltaire, selection from English Letters
7. Montesquieu, Persian Letters
8. Montesquieu, Persian Letters
9. Montesquieu, Persian Letters
10. Swift, A Modest Proposal
11. Swift, Gulliver's Travels
12. Swift, Gulliver's Travels
13. Swift, Gulliver's Travels
Semester Break
15. Leibniz, Selection from Principles of Nature and Grace
16. Pope, An Essay on Man, Epistle 1
17. Voltaire, Candide
18. Voltaire, Micromegas
19. Fielding, Joseph Andrews
20. Fielding, Joseph Andrews
21. Fielding, Joseph Andrews
22. Diderot, Supplement to the voyage of Bougainville
23. Diderot, Supplement to the voyage of Bougainville
24. Hume, Selection from Treatise of Human Nature
25. Rousseau, Selection from The Second Discourse
26. Beaumarchais, Da Ponte, Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro
27. Beaumarchais, Da Ponte, Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro
28. Concluding remarks
Required Reading:
In Alphabetical order of authors:
- D'Alembert, Jean le Rond. Selection from The Great Encyclopedia.
- Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin Caron. The Marriage of Figaro.
- Da Ponte and Mozart. The Marriage of Figaro (based on Beaumarchais' play).
- Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe.
- Diderot, Denis. Supplement to the voyage of Bougainville.
- Diderot and
- Fielding, Henry. Joseph Andrews.
- Hume, David. Selection from Treatise of Human Nature.
- Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat. Persian Letters.
- Rousseau, Jean Jacques. Selection from The Second Discourse.
- Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels.
- Swift, Jonathan. A Modest Proposal.
- Voltaire, Candide.
- Voltaire, Micromegas.
- Voltaire. Selection from English Letters.
Additional Reading Material:
מיכאל הרסגור, עידן האורות, תל אביב: משרד הביטחון-ההוצאה לאור, תשמ"ד
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 10 %
Project work 80 %
Assignments 10 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
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