Course Catalog - 2021-2022

     

ENGL 377 - WRITING ON ART AND LITERATURE

Long Title: WRITING ON ART AND LITERATURE
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Undergraduate Professional
Visiting Undergraduate
Undergraduate
Description: A course that explores how the languages of text and image can interrogate as well as clarify each other. We will focus on three key bodies of work: the paintings of Vermeer; a massive graphic novel by Charlotte Salomon, a 22 year old woman who died at Auschwitz; and Alfred Hitchcock's revision of his novelistic source for “Psycho”.
Course URL: http://www.english.rice.edu