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Johns Hopkins University - The Idea of Literature

European languages document the evolution of the concept of literature from a generic term indicating the body of writings produced in a particular country or period to one that more particularly signifies works endowed with an aesthetic quality. The concept of literature thus seems to take form in connection with the emergence of a critical discourse, the search for a standard of taste. The dream of founding a “science littéraire” modeled on the principles of structural semiotics searching for an elusive “literariness”, literature as a system, a set of formal features, not a collection of discrete, ineffable individuals; it thus involved a rejection of the aesthetic, or at least a reconsideration of its assumptions. This course will pursue the question of "The Idea of Literature" simultaneously from a philosophical and a historical perspective; in moving from formalist literariness to the rediscovery of categories like the ethical, the subject, the reader, the author, and the aesthetic, we will ask such questions as: Can there be a return to an aesthetic education, as some wish, and what would that be? Would such a move resuscitate the ghost of Hume’s gentleman scholar, which the New Critics tried to do away with? Is there a way of formally distinguishing between literature and its various contexts? Authors will include Hume, Kant, Taine, Lanson, Sainte-Beuve, Brunetière, Arnold, Proust, Benjamin, Bréton, Sartre, Bourdieu, De Man, and Eco.
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Johns Hopkins University - Boccaccio II: The Decameron

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Johns Hopkins University - Italian Independent Stdy

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Johns Hopkins University - Italian Independent Stdy

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Johns Hopkins University - Italian Independent Stdy

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Johns Hopkins University - Italian Dissertation Res

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Johns Hopkins University - Italian Dissertation Res

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Johns Hopkins University - Italian Dissertation Res

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Johns Hopkins University - Italian Proposal Prep

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Johns Hopkins University - Italian Proposal Prep

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