| Date |
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| 10 Sept |
1. Introduction |
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Shakespeare, selections from The Sonnets |
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| 17 Sept |
2. From image to idea |
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Plato, Meno
Snow, So is This |
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| 24 Sept |
3. Getting perspective |
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Alberti, On Painting |
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| 1 Oct |
4. Describing stories |
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Alberti cont'd |
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| 8 Oct |
5. The beatiful and the sublime |
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Kant, Critique of Judgement |
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| 15 Oct |
6. Boundaries of representation |
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Kant cont'd
mid-term quiz |
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| 22 Oct |
7. The paragone |
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Kant cont'd
Lessing, Laocoon |
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| 29 Oct |
8. Boundaries 2 |
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Lessing cont'd |
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| 5 Nov |
Holiday |
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| 12 Nov |
9. Ekphrasis |
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Philostratus, from Imagines
Krieger
Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" |
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| 19 Nov |
10. Representing representation |
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Ashbery, Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror |
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| 26 Nov |
11. Inscribing vision |
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Tanizaki, The Key
Argento, Profondo Rosso |
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| 3 Dec |
12. Vision, discipline, desire |
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Bronte, Villette |
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| 10 Dec |
13. |
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Bronte cont'd |
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| 14 Dec |
papers
due |
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