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Week 3 Discussion Post A due Feb 11 at 6p Discussion Board

Last updated: 2/5/2024

Week 3 Discussion Post A due Feb 11 at 6p Discussion Board

Week 3 Discussion Post A due Feb 11 at 6p Discussion Board Posts 25 total As a measure of your participation you will write 200 word minimum responses to the readings as well as responding to at least one other post In these posts I want to see concrete examples where you critically reflect on the readings This can include citing specific photographs and photographers theoretical connections between different readings ideas themes and or the author s own argument Please refer to my separate Talbot s photographic printing establishment at Reading circa 1845 COURTESY Harry Ransom Center The University of Texas at Austin ROMANTIC AESTHETIC Between about 1760 and 1860 the Romantics rebelled against the Enlightenment s empirical reasoning as the road for human progress which they considered to be conformist and oppressive in nature and having the potential to lead to alien ation depression and dehumanization Instead the Romantics stressed personal emotional experience as a visceral way of revealing the expressive internal work ings of the mind