Philosophy, Art, and the Sublime. Explores philosophies of art, theories of the sublime, and the relation between art and morality through philosophy, literature, and the visual arts. Includes works by Plato, Longinus, Burke, Rousseau, Kant, Mary Shelley, Melville, Friedrich, Turner, and Pollock. Prereqs., HUMN 1010 and 1020 . Myth in the Arts.
Studies representative myths in the art, music, and literature of ancient and modern worlds.
Myth, Desire, and the Western Lyric Voice. By way of critical theory from Plato to Barthes, examines how lyric, from Sappho to Ashbury, exploits myth to articulate desire and subjectivity. Prereq., HUMN 1010 or 1020 . Economics in Literature. Interdisciplinary study of the relationship between economics and literature.