We finally really begin Antony and Cleopatra, discussing Plutarch's interest in character, and Shakespeare's, and what makes a tragic character interesting since we know what the plot will be. Aristotle on pity and terror again: usually the protagonist or main is someone innocent or at worst someone like ourselves: not so in Macbeth. After which we start analyzing the opening scene, with comparisons to Lear and to Hamlet as well (on the quantification of love). Many corny jokes.
12. 17th c poetry: Done with Donne
9. Film and Philosophy: Berkeley
8. Film and Philosophy Plato's Cave
11. 17th Century Poetry: Satire 3 Concluded and Some Holy Sonnets
10. 17th Century Poetry: Satire 3 ("Kind pity chokes my spleen")
7. Film and Philosophy -- Mainly on Dark City
9. 17th C Poetry: Donne's Valediction Forbidding Mourning
8. 17th century poetry: Donne's "To His Mistress Upon Going to Bed" and "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning."
6. Ontology and the image, from Plato to Cavell
7. Seventeenth Century Poetry: Donne's poem "Love's Alchemy"
6. 17th Century Poetry -- Donne's "Ecstasy" and "Love's Alchemy"
5. Film and Phil: Bazin on Theater vs. Film - clip of rear window
4. Film -- A couple of scenes from Out of the Past, and discussion of La Jetée
5. 17th Century Poetry Donne's "Go and Catch a Falling Star" and "The Ecstasy"
4. 17th c poetry -- some of Donne's secular poems against fidelity
Film 3. Aura and Maguffin. Close viewing of Out of the Past
3. 17th century poetry
2. 17th century poetry. Why death? - more on Donne's "At the round earth's imagined corners"
2. Philm (get it?) - versions of continuity
Intro to Film and Philosophy: their reciprocity, Marclay's Telephones
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