Soul and the city – Art, Literature and Urban Living
(8 lectures, 45 minutes/lecture)
Course No. 484
Taught by Arnold Weinstein
Brown University
Ph.D., Harvard University
"A great city is, to be sure, the school for studying life." —Samuel Johnson
We spend our lives building in empty spaces. Out of nothing, we make something. We fashion jobs, relationships, structures, and meanings. Without these creations, we would live in a wasteland.
The Soul and the City: Art, Literature, and Urban Living is not a compendium of statistics on city life, a guidebook, or a historical look. This course focuses on complex artistic representations of city life from the 18th to the 20th century.
Brown University's Professor Weinstein (Ph.D., Harvard University) selects particular moments and cities to illustrate urban themes such as anonymity, orientation, and exchange. You visit St. Petersburg just before the Russian revolution, the industrial age in the novels of Charles Dickens, and the present global electronic era on the cinematic screen. Professor Weinstein serves as a literary theorist, cultural critic, and philosopher.
Portraits of humanity come through several great artists in a variety of mediums:
Painter Edvard Munch depicts the emptiness of urban living.
Poet Charles Baudelaire celebrates how crowds impact his imagination.
Author Daniel Defoe dramatizes the freedom the city offers people who want to change their identities.
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Back then he was looking at a fat IPO and a boat. Back then he was rich. Back then he had a condo overlooking the ocean, a wife, and had just bought the BMW Z4 convertible. Cobalt blue, like the ocean on a clean, clear day in early spring. Now what he has left is the car. Ted's a real estate investor in Laguna Beach, California. He's been kicked out by his soon-to-be ex wife, his assets have been frozen by the IRS, he's holding on to his Beemer, but the car company's repo men want it back, and he's living in a tent. He's falling through the cracks of the 'Gold Coast' life, until he turns to money-laundering to get back in the game. Then things get worse...
Soul and the city – Art, Literature and Urban Living
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