
From Plato to Post-modernism: Understanding the Essence of Literature and the Role of the Author
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Louis Markos
Any lover of Shakespeare or the Romantic poets can concede that poetry is pleasurable. But is it good for you? Can it teach you anything? These are questions that have beguiled and engaged eminent critics for millennia, and now you can develop your own answers and options with these 24 lectures.
The source of poetry's wellspring; the relationship between poetry and human progress; the possible truths (and lies) involved in the literary arts; the role of the author; these lectures tap into an enormous range of material to explore these and other provocative issues. You'll follow the strands of this "conversation" between philosophy and the literary arts down the millennia, profiting from in-depth analyses of works by Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Sir Philip Sidney, Dryden, Pope, Wordsworth, Shelley, Coleridge, Matthew Arnold, T.S. Eliot, Northrop Frye, Foucault, Derrida, and more.
Throughout these lectures, you'll meet the poet in many guises. These include: the divine poet (a supernatural creator who transcends the laws of nature), the alchemical poet (the inspired individual who fuses humanity's divided nature into one), the common poet (the poet who roots himself or herself in the real world and speaks for the common individual), the playful poet (who champions sensitivity of feeling, contradictory truths, and uncertainties), and the prisoner poet (who's a product of, and a slave to, his or her own subconscious suppositions).
By concentrating on critical reflections about poetry - the oldest of the literary arts - you'll come away with lessons on how to understand literature, and all of the arts, more generally. More importantly, you'll be prepared to join in these critical conversations yourself.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.
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too advanced for my understanding at this point
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Great!
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Fast, Furious - And Fun
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Aside from his views on feminism...
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Great series of lectures by the brilliant Louis Markos
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This course started out very strong, and the professor's performance was outstanding. My major criticism, and it is important, is that he was not very generous to the modern and postmodern critics. He clearly doesn't like them, and he spent at least as much time arguing against them as explaining how their arguments work, and his arguments against them were, frequently, against very reductive versions of their arguments. We get that you don't like arguing with deconstructionists, but there is a lot more to Derrida and company than simple sophistry or being unwilling to give concrete truths. And the idea that gender is performative is important, widely accepted, and rather than simply mocking it, it is worth explaining and clarifying.The professor is also, unsurprisingly, perhaps over-committed to biblical scholarship, and so more time was spent giving examples from theology than I personally was particularly interested, though of course that is not a criticism; other listeners might find that much more helpful than I did.
Great Start but did disservice to 20th century
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I was amazed at how well this lecturer took us over such a great expanse of time and made sense of the paradigms and paradigm shifts in the field of literature.Worthwhile Listening
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What a great series!
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Good teacher
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