| Title: | Literature and Photography |
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| Course Section Number: | ART-210-01 |
| Department: | Art |
| Description: | Cross List: ART-210 = ENG-350 "What tales might those pictures tell," Walt Whitman once asked, "if their mute lips had the power of speech?" In English 350, we'll explore how writers and artists have answered that question since photography's invention in 1839-an event that changed the way we look at art. We'll read photographs and photobooks. We'll consider the many ways that photography and literature intersect: authors' photos, illustrations, captions, photo albums, and sequential art. Throughout it all, we'll ask how the talkative text responds to the silent image. We'll even think about the etymology for the word photograph: writing with light. Your readings will stretch from the 19th to 21st centuries, including poems, essays, stories, and criticism. Writers and photographers will include Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, James Agee, Walker Evans, Natasha Trethewey, Duane Michals, Emily Dickinson, Adrienne Rich, Robert Frank, and Diane Arbus. We'll ground ourselves with Susan Sontag's On Photography. We'll learn from Roland Barthes that all photographers are "agents of death" (Camera Lucida). Prerequisites: none. |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| Start Date: | January 20, 2020 |
| End Date: | May 9, 2020 |
| Meeting Information: |
01/21/2020-05/07/2020 Lecture Tuesday, Thursday 02:40PM - 03:55PM, Center Hall, Room 300
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| Faculty: | Mong, Derek |
Course Status & Cross-Listings
| Cross-list Group Capacity: | 20 |
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| Cross-list Group Student Count: | 19 |
| Calculated Course Status: | OPEN |
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