Instructor: James Simpson
Mondays, 3-5:45 pm | Location: Barker 211
Class will be held from 3-5 pm.
Enrollment: Limited to 15 students.
Mondays, 3-5:45 pm | Location: Barker 211
Class will be held from 3-5 pm.
Enrollment: Limited to 15 students.
What if originality were not what strikes us most forcefully in art? What, instead, if recognition of what and whom we have known already is the most emotionally forceful, illuminating experience of art? This course will test the force of these propositions, by looking to both visual art (painting and movies) and literature. We will look to rhetoric, cognitive psychology and philosophy in order to understand the artistic experience of recognition. Texts will be drawn anywhere from Homer to Shakespeare in Love.