GLI B5528 -

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The New School

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Closer: Understanding Tragedy Spring 2009. Jim Miller Through a close "reading" of different kinds of artworks-visual awell as verbal, musical, and abstract as well as philosophical and closelyreasoned- this seminar acquaints students with a variety of analytic and imaginative ways to understand the meaning of tragedy. In order to provoke reflection, representations of the tragic in different media-including literature, art, music, and film-are juxtaposed and interpreted with the help of visiting teachers, expert in understanding the medium in question. One goal is to provide advanced students with in-depth, interdisciplinary knowledge of contemporary methods of criticism and interpretation. Another goal is to question the meaning of tragedy-and to reflect on the peculiarities of some contemporary representations of the tragic sensibility. During the semester, the class will be joined by a variety of guest teachers, including composer Stefania de Kennesy, art critic Jed Perl, literary scholar Paul Kottman, poet and literary scholar Robert Polito, and philosopher Simon Critchley. Works studied include the film No Country for Old Men; Oedipus Rex by Sophocles; texts by Aristotle and Nietzsche; "The Apology of Socrates" as described by Plato; paintings of the Passion of Christ; Bach's St. Mathew Passion; etchings by Goya and Otto Dix; Beethoven's Fifth Symphony; Shakespeare's King Lear; plus additional works by Stravinsky, David, Nerval, Van Gogh, Foucault, Cormac McCarthy, Jim Thompson, and Betrand Tavernier.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.newschool.edu

Phone Number:

(212) 229-5600

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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