The Sublime

Professor
J. Jennifer Jones

On this page please find some of the finest work produced in Honors 312 this term. I have chosen one or two exemplary essays from each formal assignment to publish to our course web site, so that we can all both enjoy the work and learn from it.

Short Essays

ESSAY #1 – February 1:
Megan Corrado: "Longinus on Language: The Means to Articulate and Mutilate the Sublime"

ESSAY #2 – February 20:
Astrid Drew: "Pride and Sublime Height: The Link between Paradise Lost and The Book of Job"

ESSAY #3 – March 15:
Claire Simpers: "Edmund Burke and Thomas Gray: Facing Mortality and Creating Sublimity through the Medium of Language"

 

Longinus, On the Sublime. 1 A.D. Trans. W. H. Fyfe; Rev. D. A. Russell. Loeb Classical Library, 1996.
ISBN: 0674995635

 John Milton, Paradise Lost. 1674. Ed. Gordon Teskey. New York: Norton, 2005.
ISBN: 0393924289

The Book of Job. Trans. Stephen Mitchell. New York: Harper Perennial, 1992. ISBN: 0060969598

Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. 1757. Ed. James T. Boulton. Indiana: U of Notre Dame P, 1993.
ISBN: 0268000859

Immanuel Kant. The Critique of Judgement. 1790. Trans. James Creed Meredith. New York: Oxford UP, 1978. ISBN: 0198245890

Anne Radcliffe. The Italian. Ed. Frederick Garber. New York: Oxford UP, 1998.
ISBN: 0198245890

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey. Ed. Marilyn Gaull. New York: Longman, 2004.
ISBN: 0321202082

Suggested Texts

Michael Greer. What Every Student Should Know About Citing Sources with MLA Documentation. New York: Longman, 2006.
ISBN: 0321447379

Joseph Gibaldi. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 6th Rev. Edition. MLA P, 2003
ISBN: 0873529863

Diana Hacker. A Writer’s Reference. 5th Sprl edition. Bedford/St. Martin's P, 2003.
ISBN: 0312412622

Course Requirements

Participation (15%)
4 Short Essays (40%)
Seminar Paper (45%)