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ENGL054.04: Beautiful, Ugly, Cute, Dumpy: An Introduction to Aesthetics

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This course is an introduction to literary aesthetics, beginning with Immanuel Kant’sThe Critique of Judgment(1790), a foundational text of Western aesthetics which provocatively and systematically explains how people enjoy and judge art, and why they discuss it together. Careful analysis of Kant’sCritiquewill be followed by revisions and extensions of his theory of taste in 20th and 21st century aesthetics and literary theory. This includes Austin, Genette, Adorno, Zangwill, Ngai, among others.

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