COLT 1430H - Poetry, Art, and Beauty

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Brown University

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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

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1.00

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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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