SPAN 6224

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SPAN 6224
Beauty, Grief

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2024-2025.

This course is for anyone drawn to beauty-and anyone who, within the beautiful, finds the trace of a loss. What do we grieve, what do we miss, when we find ourselves in the presence of beauty? And what, in every retrospective, prospective or otherwise non-present beauty, do we nonetheless crave and nonetheless mourn? What is the beauty hidden within mourning? We'll take a look at thinkers, poets, and artists from both modern and premodern culture, potentially including Anne Carson, Augustine of Hippo, Fra Angelico, Gillian Rose, Hervé Guibert, Pepe Espáliu, and others, as we try to sit with dual summons of beauty and grief: beauty or grief.

When Offered Fall.

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Syllabi:

  • 20106 SPAN 6224   SEM 101

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    • W Klarman Hall KG42
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Howie, C

      Keller, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person