Course details

Name: ENGL - 250

Title: SPECIAL TOPICS: TEXT AND IMAGE

Section: 02

Semester: Spring - 2023

Credits: 3

Description:
NOTE: THIS COURSE MEETS SYNCHRONOUSLY ONLINE ON MONDAYS, AND IN PERSON ON THURSDAYS

This seminar examines the interplay of text and image in four historical moments. 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 late-eighteenth century illuminated books will provide our next case, and we will pair his work with analyses of it by contemporary critics. The concluding sections 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.

Schedule: Monday,Thursday From 9:45 am To 11:00 am

Graduation requirements:

• Any Literature (1e)
• Genre Study (Poetry)
• Pre-1700 (1a)
• Pre-1800 (1b)
• Pre-1900 (1c)
• Class Issues (3d)
• Pre-1800 British (TE 1b)

Teaching Faculty: Rzepka Adam (rzepkaa)

Is course canceled: No