English 294z. On Beauty: Graduate Seminar

Instructor: Elaine Scarry
Thursday, 3:00-5:00pm | Location: TBD
Enrollment: Limited to 15 students
 

Philosophic and literary accounts of beauty from Greek through modern, including Plato, Aquinas, Dante, Kant, Keats, and Rilke. In addition, the major arguments against beauty; and its stability across four objects (gods, gardens, persons, and poems).