Hauptseminar New Aestheticism

HS: New Aestheticism The rise of literary theory from the 1970s onwards coincided with the rise of an anti-aestheticism, a loss of interest in the aesthetic impact of literary works of art. As a result, questions about art's specificity as an aesthetic phenomenon (e.g. the role of aesthetic experience, the truth of art, the endurance of certain artworks, artistic genius) have almost entirely disappeared from view. The -new aestheticism- is a literary critical and theoretical movement that seeks to set the balance right by a renewed (and theoretically informed) interest in aesthetic concerns. In this course, we shall divide our attention between theoretical issues in aesthetics and a practical criticism of literature. Selected philosophical texts chiefly by I. Kant and T.W. Adorno will serve as a background for our discussion of plays and poems by Shakespeare and a number of contemporary poets. As part of our critical activity we shall also explore (and test) ways of reintroducing value judgements into the study of literature. All set texts will be provided in a reader. Recommended reading: John J. Joughin and Simon Malpas (eds.): The New Aestheticism. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2003. Winfried Menninghaus: Kunst als -Beförderung des Lebens'': Perspektiven transzendentaler und evolutionärer Ästhetik. München: Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung, 2006. All set texts will be provided in a reader. Recommended reading: John J. Joughin and Simon Malpas (eds.): The New Aestheticism. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2003. Winfried Menninghaus: Kunst als -Beförderung des Lebens'': Perspektiven transzendentaler und evolutionärer Ästhetik. München: Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung, 2006. Anmeldung Prüfungsanmeldung (über LSF): 22. Juni - 3. Juli 2015 Downloads DateinameBeschreibunggültig vongültig bis new-aestheticism-prog.pdf Course programme istvan_orkeny.doc Örkeny: Ballad... new-aestheticism_einstieg.pdf Quotations Kant Handout.docx Kant Presentation - Handout chauvet-faz.pdf FAZ handout-adorno.pdf Adorno Presentation - Handout Wk 4 Freud Presentation.docx Hanna Segal Presentation - Handout Wilm_Einladung_Kolloquium_210515.doc Einladung - Burnside Kolloquium mp004.pdf Burnside, Levin - Gedichte Handout New Aestheticism.docx Handout - Shakespeare's language Keats_Handout_2.pdf Handout Keats Schiller.docx Handout Schiller faz1-niemann.pdf FAZ - Niemann Burnside Poems.doc Burnside: two more poems burnside-faz.pdf FAZ - Burnside Touchstones.pdf -Touchstones- - selection of 20th-c. poems Adorno_LisaHoenig.pdf Adorno Handout Stevens_Handout.pdf Wallace Stevens Handout handout-burnside-lsf2.pdf Burnside Handout eliot-hill_quotes.doc T.S. Eliot / G. Hill quotations All Things Levantine.doc Gabriel Levin's poetics: All Things Levantine poems-for-discussion.doc Poems for discussion 1 Ondaatje_Cinnamon Peeler.pdf Poems for discussion 2 Kaminsky_In Praise of Laughter.pdf Poems for discussion 3 Zum Download müssen Sie angemeldet sein! Department III - Anglistik und Amerikanistik LMU München SoSe 2015 Dr. Jancsó Daniella