TOPICS IN AESTHETIC THEORY

Credit Hours: 3 · Graduate

This special topics course surveys theoretical approaches to the form and judgment of aesthetic objects and culture. Topics may include aesthetic categories and their history (including “major” categories such as beauty and “minor” categories such as awkwardness), theories of genre (including classic genres such as tragedy and more recent adaptations such as noir), theories of style (whether historically situated such as Rococo or more recently developed such as minimalism), and theories of judgment (such as in Kant’s third Critique). Cross-list: ENGL 598 . Repeatable for Credit.