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Welcome to HH224 MW 3:00-4:20 pm UCIrvine, afterhours. This blog is designed as a supplement to the Student Humanities Core Website (see links) and to Erin Trapp's generic eee website (which does importantly contain the course syllabus as a whole document, rather than in the blog's fragments). Final Exam: Monday December 10th, 4:00-6:00pm.
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- Jane Austen on Masterpiece Theater (Persuasion airs December 30 at 9:00pm on PBS)
- Descartes Dictionary--definitions of key terms (cartesian circle, clarity/distinctness, cogito ergo sum, god, intuition, meditation, meditations on first philosophy, objective reality, ontological argument, trademark argument)
- Descartes Life and Work (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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Reading
- Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
- Handbook chapters 8,9,10,11 (narrative, compare/contrast, application, genre)
- Jane Austen, Persuasion
- Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy
- Handbook chapters 2, 3 (definition and thesis)
- Theophrastus, "The Insincere Man" and "The Show Off" (reader 30-31)
- Aristotle, A New Aristotle Reader: Nicomachean Ethics (Bk I, chpts 4, 5, 7, 8, 13 and Bk II, chpts 1, 5, 6, 7)
- Sappho, poems (reader p 29)
- Aristotle, "On the Soul" (bk I, chpts 1,4; bk II, chpts 1, 2, 3, 4; bk III, chpts 4,7)
- Brothers Grimm, "The Coal, the Bean, and the Straw"
- Aristotle, Physics
- Handbook chapters 1, 4, 6
- Bacon, preamble and preface to Novum Organum (reader)
- Aristotle, Rhetoric (reader)
- Aristotle, "On the Soul" (bk I, chpts 1,4; bk II, chpts 1, 2, 3, 4; bk III, chpts 4,7)
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8 comments:
his letter is so heartfelt. i would love if a guy wrote that to me. "I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own, than when you almost broke it eight years and a half ago...I have loved none but you."
Captain Wentworth's letter sounds heartfelt but almost too cheesy to be sincere. It is sweet because he tells the truth, like the fact that he has been "weak and resentful." And while Anne was very pleased with the letter (and if I was in her position I probably would be too) I still wouldn't want a letter like that to be sent to me in any normal circumstance. Austen has a very fairy-tale idea of love that, while I love thinking about, is hard for me to believe or accept.
I would have to agree with Jackie, the letter is beautifully written and can sweep a girl off her feet, but for some reason while reading it, I percieved it to be a "little too much", for example, "I have loved none but you" and "I can hardly write". Perhaps everything that he stated saying was in fact, true, but seems a bit melodramatic.
Captain Wentworth's letter, for me was very fairy tale-esque! Wentworth professes his undying love for Anne and pours his entire heart out in this letter. I think it is very lovey-dovey and romantic. I agree with Jackie that Austen does have this ideal fairy tale, happy ending in all her novels. Personally I love all romantic novels and thinking how the guy gets the girl and they live happily ever after. I wish my love life was like that because I am a sucker for cheesy happy endings.
alright men: we need you to weigh in now (i realize we're dealing with limited numbers in our section).
is it believable from wentworth? i wasn't quite prepared for wentworth's "change of heart"... also: the letter suggests there was no change of heart, but it does seem that wentworth HAD a change of heart--remember the first comment he made about anne. thoughts?
I don't it make it seems like Wentworth is a wimp. He is too afraid to actually tell his feelings to Anne, so he writes a letter instead, making it her decision to come find him, and easier for him in case she rejects him again. I don't know, I think Austen just really likes her male characters spilling their hearts in letters.
he does have a change of heart in a way, since it seemed that he was avoiding anne. he must have got the courage to be brave and just express his feelings.
I agree that the letter is beautiful, but seems overly done and when he first saw Anne again he wanted nothing to do with her. Now all of a sudden he is still madly in love with her. It seems to me like an easy way for Austen to end her novel by having a happy ending between the two. It does not satisfy me.
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