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Course Info

  • Course Number / Code:
  • 21L.704 (Fall 2005) 
  • Course Title:
  • Studies in Poetry: "What's the Use of Beauty?" 
  • Course Level:
  • Undergraduate 
  • Offered by :
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    Massachusetts, United States  
  • Department:
  • Literature 
  • Course Instructor(s):
  • Prof. Noel Jackson 
  • Course Introduction:
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  • 21L.704 Studies in Poetry: "What's the Use of Beauty?"



    Fall 2005




    Course Highlights


    This course features an extensive list of readings and a description of the assignments.


    Course Description


    This course explores variations on the proposition that an adequate recognition of beauty could, however indirectly, make you a more humane person. Readings extend widely across literary and non-literary genres, including lyric poetry and the novel, philosophical prose and essays.
     

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