#  English 294z. On Beauty: Graduate Seminar 

 



Instructor: [Elaine Scarry](/people/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).



 



 

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