Course Description
Study of literature in English and other arts, including music, film, and visual arts. Depending on the instructor, the course may concentrate on a particular historical setting, or it may range broadly across time and place.
Athena Title
Literature and Other Arts
Prerequisite
Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course)
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
Because the arts rarely exist in isolation, this course seeks to provide a more expanded contextual setting for the study of literature, particularly where interrelationships among the arts are conspicuously active. Examining literary works as they respond to, or inspire response by, artists and musicians and filmmakers, this course will enable students to develop a diversified conceptual vocabulary for apprehending artistic activity in general, while providing them with concrete instances of works in various media. The contents of this course will vary depending upon the instructor and course focus. The considerable resources available in the UGA libraries provide an ideal platform for the course, along with the content delivery and interactive electronic environment of such tools as WebCT. Such a course should also promote more interaction among faculty and students across disciplines.
Topical Outline
The choice and sequence of topics will vary from instructor to instructor and semester to semester. The literature will be read outside of class. Depending on the medium, film and music may be viewed in class, in extra viewing sessions, or independently by students outside class. Art works may be viewed in class, in required textbooks, or made available on WebCT. Students will be periodically required to participate in graded assignments, including exams, essays, and contributions to the WebCT discussion interface. Two sample topics: {a} Modernism in the Arts (poetry and music by Pound, poetry and plays by Yeats, poetry by Moore, Loy, Moore, fiction by Joyce, Woolf, Lawrence, music by Stravinsky and Schoenberg, art by Kandinsky, Picasso, Brancusi, film by Eisenstein, Lang); {b} Literature and Jazz (poems and stories from anthologies of the Harlem Renaissance and such topical anthologies as The Jazz Poetry Anthology, Writing Jazz, and Moment’s Notice, novels by Ellison, Reed, Morrison, Mackey, autobiographies by jazz figures like Sidney Bechet, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Billie Holiday, and musical examples from the full range of jazz history, including Armstrong, Ellington, Basie, Parker, Coltrane).