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HUL853
Art and Aesthetics
Credits 3
Structure 3-0-0
Pre-requisites
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HUL853 : Art and Aesthetics

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• Aesthetic Attitude and Aesthetic Experience • The Ontology of Art: on what kind of a thing is a work of art • Theories of Art: Resemblance, Representation, Expression and Form • Aesthetic Judgement: Perception and Imagination; The Sublime and the Beautiful • Emotional Response to Fiction • Criticism and Interpretation: on whethr critical-interpretative cannons are fixed or open-ended • Art, Tradition and Modernity • Art, Morality and Politics: Art as Ideology • Metaphor, Narrative and Fictionality • Philosophy and Literature: on Literature as Cognitive Thought-Experiment about Human Possibility