| Unit name | Writing for Art |
|---|---|
| Unit code | ENGLM3018 |
| Credit points | 20 |
| Level of study | M/7 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
| Unit director | Dr. Cheeke |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Co-requisites |
None |
| School/department | Department of English |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This unit will explore the relationship between writing (especially poetry) and visual art, from 1800-the present. Aspects of ekphrasis will be examined both in relation to a wide range of authors in different periods, and in relation to the body of theory that has responded to this kind of writing. Topics will include the relation between text and image, the notion of reading a painting, the rivalry, violence and appropriation that exists between the $?sister arts&?, notions of time and stasis, narrative and frozen moment, isomorphism and $?painterly&? poems, questions of aesthetics, writing that has inspired paintings, writing that has explored the figure of the artist, ekphrasis and history, notions of $?realism&? and representation.
