Henry James (Kelsey)
- great novelist
- themes: personal relationship, loneliness, unreliable characters
- love and morals
- possibly gay?
- 'turn of the shrew' is a ghost story
- interested in people, but never liked them
Ernst Cassirer (Victoria)
- jewish historian
- 'philosophy of symbolic form' book
- man as a symbolic animal (domestic)
- 'transcendental idealism'- Khan
- human world created through symbolic form: expressive, representative, and significant
Walter Benjamin (Ben)
- work rejected because too confusing
- work of art and mechanical reproduction
- aura: ability to be unique
- sense of awe and amazement by viewer
- because of mechanical representation: no auras anymore
Oscar Wilde (Kyle)
- doesn't want truth- illusion
- art is better than life and truth
- cannot tell the truth, make them laugh instead or you will be killed
- a portrait done with feeling is not of the sitter, but of the painter
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Keats of Negative capability:- sounds like Sidney
- beauty and truth: 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'
- if something is really beautiful, than it is true
- Shakespeare didn't write what he felt, he wrote to become everything
- Shakespeare doesn't exist, only the world he created does
Don Quixote:
- 'woo, woo' pages: 429, 556-7
- cannon: everything should be didactic
- DQ creates an entire Romance novel in his mind
- aesthetic
- didacticism is being parodied
- nonsense writers: James Joyce, Lewis Carroll
- Polonius from Hamlet
- Walter Pater: "all the arts aspire to the condition of music"
- don't ask what it means, experience what it is
- 'nature is only nature, it needs and artist to portray it'
- lobster quadrille
- Ovid's final words "I shall have life"
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