2017-2018 Academic Catalog 
    
    May 13, 2024  
2017-2018 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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ENG 261 - Literature & The Visual Arts

1 course unit
The course will explore the multiple relationships between word and image in a variety of interdisciplinary texts.  We will examine the genres of illustration (poem and novel), composite text, ekphrasis, children’s story, concrete and imagist poetry, the graphic novel, and film.  Historically, the scope of the course is broad, reaching from the classical period to last year.  We’ll move from The Iliad to a comic strip, from a children’s picture book to the revolutionary poetics of Blake’s dynamic art.  The course will trace the increasing sophistication and partnership of the word/image relationship as we move deeper into the digital age.  Texts may include William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794); W. C. Williams, Pictures from Brueghel (1960); Richard McGuire’s graphic novel, “Here” (2014); and Jonathan Safron Foer’s “Tree of Codes” (2010).  The course will also consider Tennyson’s “Lady of Shalott” along with its Pre-Raphaelite illustrations and critical works such as Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics (1993) and W. J. T. Mitchell’s Picture Theory (1993).
Meets general academic requirement HU.



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