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.