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Fall 2008
Mar 29, 2024
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HMAN 1970E - Arts of Deformation: Fantasy and Caprice in European Music, Literature and Visual Arts, 1600-1850
This interdisciplinary seminar examines the history and cultural significance of fantasias, capriccios, and other genres of bizarre and grotesque expression across the arts. Themes include the historical origins of "fantasy" and "caprice," the social purposes of creative "free play," the Enlightenment's troubled engagement with the irrational, and the marginality of fantastic genres relative to classical aesthetic traditions. Subject material includes music from Frescobaldi to Liszt, visual arts from Piranesi to Delacroix, and literature from the commedia dell'arte to ETA Hoffmann and Victor Hugo. Working proficiency in either Italian, French or German preferred.
1.000 Credit hours
1.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Primary Meeting

Cogut Institute for Humanities Department

Restrictions:
May not be enrolled as the following Classifications:     
      Semester Level 04
      Semester Level 03
      Semester Level 01
      Semester Level 02

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