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2 | Spring 2016 | Honig, Elizabeth |
MW 4-5:30 + discussion sections | 106 Moffitt |
Johnson, Ben: Bartholomew Fair; More, Sir Thomas: Utopia; Orgel, Stephen: The Illusion of Power;
Recommended: Alexander, Gavin, ed.: Sidney's 'The Defence of Poesy' and Selected Renaissance Literary Criticism
This course has two goals: to explore visual culture and the role of visuality in renaissance England, and to develop research skills.
Elizabeth I's long reign saw a remarkable flowering of the arts. Her unique position as a female monarch surrounded by male courtiers produced a dynamic in which all artistic production seemed to reflect back upon her, the powerful focus of men's desires and aspirations. From the building of stately houses to the writing of poetry, a rhetoric of courtship and persuasion would underlie England's renaissance. Following on a long period of state-sponsored iconoclasm, the status of the visual arts and their relationship to verbal expression also had to be redefined. This course will consider the Elizabethan period in relation to culture under Elizabeth's father, Henry VIII, her brother and sister, and her Stuart heir James I. We will treat poetry, painting, and pageantry; rhetoric, architecture and urban development. We will also pay close attention to the applied and domestic arts--furnishings, clothing, embroidery. Writers, designers, and artists we will discuss will include Holbein, More, Hilliard, Sidney, Smythson, Jones, Jonson, Van Dyck and Rubens.
This course involves interdisciplinary, research-based learning. The evaluation of your work will be based not on examinations but on a multi-part project, on which you will have extensive, structured guidance from the professor, the GSI, and the library staff. You will write an original interdisciplinary research paper using primary sources available online.
This course satisfies the pre-1800 requirement for the English major.
This class is cross-listed with History of Art 169A.
201 | No instructor assigned yet. |
Tues. 9-10 | 151 Barrows |
202 | No instructor assigned yet. |
Tues. 10-11 | 5 Evans |
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Special Topics: Pomo: Exploring the Landscape of Postmodernism |
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Special Topics: Art of Writing: Grant Writing, Food Writing, Food Justice |
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Special Topics: Getting Global: Literature & Film of an Expanding & Unequal World |
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Special Topics: Literatures of the Asian Diaspora in America |
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Naiman, Eric
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Special Topics: Asian American Literature - World, Nation, Locality |
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Muza, Anna
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fall, 2018 |
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Special Topics: Journeys: British World-Building, c. 700-1700 |
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spring, 2018 |
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fall, 2017 |
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Special Topics: Writing Poetry and Nonfiction, Writing as Social Practice |
spring, 2017 |
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Special Topics: Studies in Literature and Environment (Shelter and Weather) |
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