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Instructors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Anja Müller-Wood
Event type:
online: Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.874.512
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Registration group: ELC 512
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Contents:
The goal of this course is to study the different ways in which (non-)fictional texts and the visual arts interact.Setting out on the aesthetic principle of ekphrasis - any form of writing about art - this seminar will also deal with novels that have artists (real, budding and wannabe) as their protagonists and reflect on the principles of perception that distinguish visual and verbal art, as well as with texts that aim to instruct readers in artistic practices and the ability to understand how visual art works.
Recommended reading list:
The following are the key texts to be studied in this class (not in this order):
John Peacham, The Art of Drawing with the Pen (1606/1612) (available online only)
John Ruskin, The Elements of Drawing (1857) (extracts)
Rudyard Kipling, The Light that Failed (1890) (available online only)
Elizabeth Taylor, A View of the Harbour (1947)
Virginia Woolf, "Walter Sickert: A Conversation" (1934)
Julian Barnes, "Braque: The Heart of Painting" (from Keeping an Eye Open [2012])
Further materials will be distributed electronically.
Please avail yourselves of a copy of Elizabeth Taylor's novel and ideally begin to read it before the start of the semester. Other sources will be made available soon.
Additional information:
Course requirements depending on the module within which you are taking this seminar.
All students: Completing the tasks set as "Aktive Teilnahme" (details to be announced at the beginning of the semester).
Presentation/term paper: Depending on your module (please make sure that you know the specific requirements you have to meet).
Details to be announced in our virtual classroom!
Digital teaching:
This class will be taught through a combination of self-study modules provided digitally and live discussions via video conference.
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