Aesthetics and Poetics I

3 credits · Undergraduate

The course begins with a study of Aristotle’s Poetics. The anti-Aristotelian thought of J. M. R. Lenz., his Anmerkungen (1771), marks the beginning of modern Realism. The poetics of Romanticism and its symbolic orientation are explained by reading passages from the works of Novalis, F. Schlegel and Goethe. To illustrate what aesthetic theory is and how it differs from poetics, Hegel’s Ästhetik and Heidegger’s Ursprung des Kunstwerkes will be studied. hönen" will be studied. CALENDAR NOTES: This course is the first part of the former full-year course GERM 4100.06. This course description reflects the entirety of the pair (GERM 4101.03 and GERM 4102.03). PREREQUISITES: The ability to read the German texts in German. Each of the German texts can be provided in English translation. EXCLUSIONS: GERM 4100.06 FORMATS: Seminar