Poetry, Art, and Beauty

COLT 1430H S01 [CRN: 23708]

What does it mean to be beautiful in poetry and art? How is beauty defined from Plato to the blog? What is aesthetics in relation to beautiful practice? A workshop in the reading of lyric poetry and visual art from cave painting to modernism. The three written exercises on text, image, and aesthetics, with creative practice in translation. No final examination. Texts include Sappho, Plato, Aristotle, Catullus, Horace, Petrarch, Goethe, Kant, Wordsworth, Baudelaire, Rilke, Benjamin, Stevens, Derrida, and Danto. LILE
Course Syllabus
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Term
Spring 2013
Credit Hours
1.0
Maximum Enrollment
999
Course Attributes
Liberal Learning
Primary Instructor
Meetings
1:00 pm - 1:50 pm Mon, Wed, Fri - from Jan 23, 2013 to May 17, 2013
Exam Group Code
06 (May 10, 2013 2:00pm)
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