Course details

Name: ENGL - 494

Title: Seminar in English Literature: Text and Image

Section: 01

Semester: Fall - 2018

Credits: 3

Description:
This seminar examines the interplay of text and image in four distinct genres and historical periods. We will begin in the English Renaissance, with Edmund Spenser’s illustrated poem cycle The Shepheardes Calendar, and study early modern theories of literature and vision alongside it. William Blake’s illuminated books will provide our next case, and we will pair his work with contemporary thinking about the capacities and risks of imagination. The concluding parts of the course will focus on experimental manipulations of text in early twentieth-century modernism and, finally, on recent graphic novels. For these last two units, we will also be reading selections from twentieth century theorists such as W.J.T. Mitchell and Frederic Jameson.

Schedule: Monday,Wednesday From 1:00 pm To 2:15 pm

Graduation requirements:

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• Any Literature (1e)
• Genre Study (Poetry)
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• Pre-1700 (1a)
• Pre-1800 (1b)
• Pre-1900 (1c)
• Pre-1800 British (TE 1b)

Teaching Faculty: Rzepka Adam (rzepkaa)

Is course canceled: No