| CODE | ENG2096 | ||||||||
| TITLE | The Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 2 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | English | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit explores Pre-Raphaelite poetry, with a focus on affinities between literature and art. The study-unit discusses the literature associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood founded in 1848 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his circle. It includes a general introduction to Pre-Raphaelite painting with a focus on the thematic and technical similarities and variations which exist between the art and poetry of the Pre-Raphaelites, within a general overview of art and literature in England in the mid-nineteenth century. Other topics discussed include the founding of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, its beginnings, aims, members and critical reception; John Ruskin; Thematic links between the work of the Pre-Raphaelites, Romantic poetry, and Tennyson; Medievalism in nineteenth-century England; the Nazarene painters. The poetry of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, and William Morris are set for detailed study. Guides on further reading will be recommended during the study-unit. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Petra Caruana Dingli |
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