ARTH 674 - Topics in Aesthetic Theory

Institution:

University of Pennsylvania

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Weissberg. Are literature and the visual arts compatible "sister" arts or bitter rivals An investigation of the often competitive relationships among verbal and visual media, focusing on the problem of constructing and representing visual art in words. Topics include: painting, sculpture, and photography; spectatorship; the ekphrastic tradition; the gendering of narrative and visual arts. Authors include: Ovid, Winckelmann, Lessing, Goethe, Hoffmann, Eichendorff, Buchner, Keller, Sacher-Masoch, Storm, Rilke, Kafka, Th. Mann, Freud. All readings and lectures in English.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.upenn.edu

Phone Number:

(215) 898-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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