‘One day when I was twenty-three or twenty-four this sentence seemed to form in my head, without my willing it, much as sentences form when we are half-asleep, ‘Hammer your thoughts into unity’. For days I could think of nothing else and for years I tested all I did by that sentence [...]” William Butler Yeats (cited in Frank Tuohy, Yeats, 1976, p.51 )

 

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E379S ASSIGNMENT

all page nos. refer to the course anthology

 J= Journal Due; LR=Learning Record Due; C = Class Presentation Due; Project Due; R= Responses to Projects Due; I=In-class writing project; G = Graded Discussion

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ANTIMODERNISM IN LITERATURE, ARCHITECTURE, AND THE VISUAL ARTS

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ANTIMODERNISM IN COLLEGE: OXFORD

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 Nov 9+11Student Presentations of Oxford Union Frescoes

 

 

 

 

Read

238-286            Accounts of the Pre-Raphaelites in Dougill, Oxford in English Literature

287-299            Accounts of the Pre-Raphaelites in J. Morris, The Oxford Book of Oxford

673-689            Oxford Union Murals

690-699            The Pre-Raphaelites;

700-701            Lang, “Some Characteristics of Pre-Raphaelite Painting and Poetry”

704-705            Rossetti, introduction;

706-707            Rossetti, “Lady Lilith”

707                        Rossetti, “Mary Magdalene”

708-714            Rossetti’s St. George and the Dragon cartoons.

731                        Introduction to William Morris

732-741            W. Morris, “The Defence of Guenevere”

741-752            W. Morris, “King Arthur’s Tomb”

753-758            William Morris at the HRC

 

Internet:

Oxford Union Library

PreRaphaelite Painting and Design
Hopkins and Monet on Poplars
Chimerie, Grotesques, and Gargoyles

 

review:

514                        Definitions of antimodernism

515                         Definition of medievalism;

516-521            Moreland, Medievalist Impulse

522                         Definitions of Gothic

523-550            Ruskin, “The Nature of Gothic”

135-145A            Semiotics, from The World is a Text: Semiotics of The Mona Lisa

551-552            Henry Adams

553-566            Adams,  Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres;

567                        Pater “La Gioconda”

568-569            Pugin, introduction

570-5                    Pugin, Contrasts

575                        Hugo, introduction

576-582            Hugo, from Notre Dame De Paris,

583-594          Gargoyles

599-619            Mary and St. Michael in windows of All Saints Chapel

 

622                        Old Main, University of Texas

623-624            Booton, “Spanish Plateresque Architecture”

 

641-648            U. T. Galveston in “Nicholas Clayton”

654-670                Blackwood, Oxford Gargoyles and Grotesques

Internet:

http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~bump/E320M/Marianism.html

http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~bump/E320M/Adams.html

http://www.learn.columbia.edu/Mcahweb/index-frame.html

 

 

 

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