From Plato to postmodernism : understanding the essence of literature & the role of the author

Content: pt. 1: lecture 1. Thinking theorectically 
 lecture 2. Plato, kicking out the poets 
 lecture 3. Aristotle\'s Poetics, mimesis and plots 
 lecture 4. Aristotle\'s Poetics, character and catharsis 
 lecture 5. Horace\'s Ars Poetica 
 lecture 6. Longinus on the sublime 
 lecture 7. Sidney\'s apology for poetry 
 lecture 8. Dryden, Pope, and decorum 
 lecture 9. Burke on the sublime and the beautiful 
 lecture 10. Kant\'s Critique of judgment 
 lecture 11. Schiller on aesthetics 
 lecture 12. Hegel and the journey of the idea --
pt. 2: lecture 13. Wordsworth, Coleridge, and British romanticism 
 lecture 14. Mr. Wordsworth\'s Preface 
 lecture 15. Coleridge, transcendental philosopher 
 lecture 16. Shelley\'s Defense of poetry lecture 17. The function of criticism, Matthew Arnold and T.S. Eliot 
 lecture 18. The status of poetry, I.A. Richards and John Crowe Ransom 
 lecture 19. Heresies and fallacies, W.K. Wimsatt and Cleanth Brooks 
 lecture 20. Archetypal theory, Saint Paul to Northrop Frye 
 lecture 21. Origins of Modernism 
 lecture 22. Structuralism, Ferdinand de Saussure to Michel Foucault 
 lecture 23. Jacques Derrida on deconstruction 
 lecture 24. Varieites of postmodernism.