COLT 2820M - Discourses of the Senses

Institution:

Brown University

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Description:

A comparative study of a variety of discourses dealing with the relation among the senses, the arts, and the problems of comparativity, interdisciplinarity, and intermediality. Topics will include ekphrasis, synaesthesia, mysticism and the theory of correspondence, the Gesamtkunstwerk, and the limits between media. Readings from Condillac, Lessing, Kant, Swedenborg, the German Romantics, Baudelaire, Wagner, Balzac, Lacoue-Labarthe, Nancy, Panofsky, Tschumi and others.

Credits:

1.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.brown.edu

Phone Number:

(401) 863-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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