FIRST YEAR SEMINARS 017 - Multiple Reality:The Unconscious in Myth,Literature,and Art

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Hobart William Smith Colleges

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Death, dreams, desire and the workings of chance: in this course students explore the use of the aesthetic image to delve into these dimensions of reality usually out of reach to our waking consciousness. Against a theoretical background that draws from anthropological, psychoanalytic, linguistic and aesthetic sources, the journey begins with tales from antiquity, passes through the imagistic thinking of pre-scientific Renaissance physics and cosmology, and arrives at two main artistic movements of the 20th century: surrealism (its genesis in France and its development as an international movement) and magic realism (as developed mainly in Latin America in the last few decades). Students reflect on various images from these diverse sources and media (painting, literature, cinema) while analyzing their power to reveal multiple levels of experience. Along with a number of written assignments, the course requires a multimedia computer project. (Paiewonsky-Conde)

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

WWW.HWS.EDU

Phone Number:

(315) 781-3000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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