Honours Seminar in Early Modern Studies: The Development of Aesthetic Theory in the Early Modern Period

EMSP4500.06X/Y

This seminar will consider how the various understandings of the arts with which the Early Modern period began developed into the independent field of aesthetics.

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While the arts have been a topic of theoretical concern since antiquity, it is only in the Early Modern period that aesthetics emerged as an independent field of inquiry. This seminar will consider how the various understandings of the arts with which the Early Modern period began developed into the independent field of aesthetics. Throughout the class, art and literature of the period will be studied in conjunction with theoretical texts.

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Lecture

M 1:35-4:25

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READING LIST

Shaftesbury, Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (978-0-521-57892-9)

Plato, Symposium (978-0-14-044927-3)

Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale (978-0-19-283877-3)

E. Burke, Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (978-0-19-953788-4)

Pierre Corneille, Le Cid (978-0-88295-026-6)

Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Judgement (978-0-87220-025-8)

Holderlin, Hyperion (978-09793330-2-6)

Hegel, Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics (978-0-14-043335-7)

L. Sterne, Sentimental Journey (978-0-19-953718-1)

Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther (978-0679729518)

Neil Robertson

Director, Early Modern Studies Programme, Associate Professor of Humanities, Contemporary Studies Programme

Faculty Member, Foundation Year Programme, Early Modern Studies Programme

902-422-1271 ext. 161