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About the Course

The links between art and literature are fascinating and long-standing. Indeed, it is arguable whether it is possible fully to appreciate the one without the other. This course offers you the opportunity to study a rich selection of art and literature and to find connections between the two subject areas.

Modules will be taken from the Department of History of Art and Film and the School of English. They will cover a broad range of topics, periods and media, taking in painting, sculpture, drama, poetry, novels, architecture and film, from the aesthetics of classical antiquity all the way through to contemporary performance, installation art, and critical theory.

First Year

During the First Year you will take six modules. In History of Art you will take:

• Introduction to History of Art I
• Introduction to History of Art II
• Theory and Practice

In English you will take:

• Reading English
• A Literary Genre: The Novel
• Renaissance Drama: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries

Second Year

During the Second Year you will take six modules: three in History of Art and three in English. In History of Art you will take:

• European Art
• Documents in the History of Art
• Italian Art and Architecture

In English you will take:

• Renaissance Literature
• Literature 1660-1789
• Concepts in Criticism

Optional year abroad

You will have the option of spending your third year studying abroad under the Erasmus European exchange scheme.

Final Year

In your third year (if you have not spent a year abroad) or fourth year (if you have), you will

Optional year abroad

You will have the option of spending your third year studying abroad under the Erasmus European exchange scheme.

Final Year

In your third year (if you have not spent a year abroad) or fourth year (if you have), you will take a minimum of 40 credits in each subject. You write a 5,000 word dissertation on a subject of your choice in either History of Art or English. The other modules are chosen from a wide range of options in History of Art and English. Options vary from year to year, but current History of Art options include:

• Classical Aesthetics and its Legacy
• Nineteenth-Century British Art Reassessed
• Central Italian Sculpture of the Sixteenth Century
• Death & Life of Modernist Architecture
• Conceptual Art and its Aftermath
• British Gothic Sculpture

Current English options include:

• Gothic, from Otranto to Wuthering Heights
• Crime and Literature 1600-1750
• Representing the Holocaust
• Postcolonial Settlers
• Sex and Sexuality in Old English Literature

Contact

Admissions Tutor: Dr Simon Richards (History of Art)
0116 252 2838/2866
Fax: 0116 252 5128
gaj3@le.ac.uk
www.le.ac.uk/ha

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