Word and Image in Renaissance Literature
ENGL 372
Fall 2012 not offered
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This interdisciplinary course explores the relationship between the "sister arts" of poetry and painting as conceived and developed by writers of the English Renaissance. We will examine the relationship between the word and image in a range of genres, including aesthetic treatises, poems, plays, and court masques. Topics covered include the tradition of "ut pictura poesis" ("as is painting, so is poetry"); the "paragone" (competition or comparison) between the arts; visual poetics and tropes (such as ekphrasis, enargia or hypotyposis); the gendered discourse of "face-painting" (portraiture, cosmetics); visual spectacle as it influenced dramatic literature and stagecraft; and the impact of Reformation iconoclasm and iconophobia. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: None |
Major Readings:
Sir Philip Sidney, DEFENCE OF POESIE and ASTROPHIL AND STELLA
George Puttenham, ARTE OF ENGLISH POESIE
Nicholas Hilliard, THE ART OF LIMNING
John Lyly, CAMPASPE and QUEEN ELIZABETH'S ENTERTAINMENT AT MITCHAM
Thomas Kyd, THE SPANISH TRAGEDY
Anonymous, THE WISDOM OF DOCTOR DODYPOLL
William Shakespeare, SONNETS, VENUS AND ADONIS, RAPE OF LUCRECE, TIMON OF ATHENS, THE TEMPEST
Ben Jonson, MASQUES
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Examinations and Assignments:
Assignments include two short papers (5pp.), a class presentation, and a final research paper (10pp.) Students choosing the Research Option will complete a semester-long research paper (20pp.). |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Fulfills the English Literary History I requirement.
Contributes to the fulfillment of the British literature concentration and Theory and Literary Forms concentration.
Research Option seminar for prospective Honors thesis writers. |
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