E320M Schedule

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E320M 06 SCHEDULE

subject to change

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The importance of READING in this course.

Even more important in terms of your future success than reading literature carefully is the ability to read directions carefully and follow them fully and faithfully. Employers regard that as a key asset, and of course see weakness in this area as a serious liability. You can not expect an employer to hold your hand throughout an assignment the way you may have expected your parents or elementary school teachers to do so. Now that you are in college you must make the transition clearly stated in the traditional address to Freshmen at Amherst College. On the other hand, if, after reading the directions carefully, you still have questions, you are encouraged to ask questions in class, email the instructor, or come to see him in his office hours.

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DBR= Required Contribution to Discussion Board Due; J= Optional Contribution to Discussion Board; L=Learning Record Due; C = Class Presentation Due; P1A, P1B= Project Due; R= Responses to Projects Due; IW=In-class writing project; G=Graded Discussion

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Formal Writing due dates

Jan. 31: LR Goals

Feb. 9: LR A1 and A2

Feb. 14: P1A posted on DB, responses to others required

Feb. 23: P1A hard copy

Mar. 9: P1B due.

Mar 23: LR MIDTERM [80 PTS.] posted on DB, responses to others required

April 6. LR MIDTERM hard copy

April 20: REVISED LR MIDTERM [30 PTS.] hard copy.

MAY 2. LR FINAL [150 PTS.] hard copy.

May 9: Portfolio due in Par 132 1:30-3:30 or earlier

May 12: Portfolio picked up in Par 132 1:30-3:30 or earlier

REQUIRED DISCUSSION BOARDS

DBR

Feb.2 . Class #6: S Darwinian Evolution vs. Spiritual Approach to Nature

Feb. 16. class #10 YOUR SENSE OF PLACE

Feb. 28 #13 Antimodernism in Texas

Mar. 28: class #19 Texan relation to nature as seen on campus

April 18 class #25 grotesque in poetry

REQUIRED CLASS PRESENTATIONS

Road Maps

April 11, 13 Pre-Raphaelite Art

REQUIRED CLASS EXCURSIONS

Oriental Garden

Downtown architecture tour April 8

EXTRA CREDIT SCAVENGER HUNTS

SHELLS

IMAGES OF THE FEMALE

Overview of Schedule

Jan. 17 Introduction

Jan. 19 the MOO

Jan 24 + 26 Road Maps

Jan. 31 Texas Memorial Museum

Feb. 2 Evolution vs. Spirituality

Feb. 7 Waller Creek: Truth to Nature?

Feb. 9 Drawing nature and modernism

Feb. 14 Drawing nature and antimodernism

Feb 16 Your Sense of Place

Feb. 21 Crowe: Nature and the Idea of a Man-Made World

Feb. 23 Comparison: UCC and UTC

Feb. 28 Antimodernism in Texas

Mar. 2 Tower Garden: Truth to Nature

Mar. 7 Comparison: Meet at 27th and Whitis All Saints compared to RTF (IW 10)

Mar. 9 P1B due (100) Meet at Congress and MLK: Bullock museum (IW 10)

Mar. 21 Antimodernism: the Spanish style (IW + G = 10)

Mar. 23 LR MIDTERM [80 PTS.] posted on DB [-10 per day otherwise], responses to others required in three days [40 or -20]; DB 12 + G 8 Antimodernism: Oxford origins

Mar. 28 Meet at Dobie's house 702 E. Dean Keeton St. (now the Michener Center for Writers). Opposite chilling station no. 4 and the law school.Texan relation to nature: Dobie walk (IW + GDB= 10)

Mar. 30 Truth to nature in painting: the PRB DB 12

Apr 4 Antimodernism: French origins DB 12 AND IW 10

Apr 6 LR MIDTERM[80] hard copy Antimodernism and the feminine IW 10

APRIL 8, 4 PM DOWNTOWN EXURSION: meet at northern entrance of the capitol. 22 points to be earned, -22 points if you do not attend + DB 12

Apr 11 + 13 Pre-Raphaelite presentations: 2 days CP 15

Apr 18 Antimodernism: the grotesque in literature RDB 12 or -8 ; + G 8

Apr 20 REVISED LR MIDTERM [30 PTS.] hard copy.Antimodernism: the grotesque in art and architecture DB 12 + G 8

Apr 25 the Grotesque in Poetry and the Sympathetic Imagination DB +12 + G 8

Apr 27 Final synthesis DB 12; G 8

MAY 2. LR FINAL [150 PTS.] hard copy.

May 9: Portfolio [100 pts] due in Par 132 1:30-3:30 or earlier

May 12: Portfolio picked up in Par 132 1:30-3:30 or earlier [or -100]

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C Road Map Due: The Power of Places in Your Life: How Your Places Have Made You Who You Are.

Assignment Due: Bring to class a visual representation of the most important "places" you have experienced over the course of your life. Can be in the form of a graph or a mandala or a map or computer program or ...... For electronic examples, see web site. If possible all electronic examples should be "htm" rather than "ppt" files . This will become part of your portfolio.

Where Did You Come From? Where is Your Home? Why Are You Here? What Is Your Pilgrimage? Where Are You Going After Graduation?

Feb.2 . Class #6: DBR: contribution to Discussion Board on this topic is REQUIRED or -8 pts.

¸ Bring your calendars so that we can decide in class (1) when we meet at St. Mary’s Cathedral; (2) at the Japanese Garden in Zilker park; (3) if and when we perform from the Alice books while rowing at Zilker Park; and (4) when we have our class party at my little ranch.

What is Your Position? Darwinian Evolution vs. Spiritual Approach to Nature/ "Intelligent Design"?

Moving toward unity? Myths, Models, and Metaphors: Science, Religion, and Personification?

1] Read Tennyson's #123 (from (In Memoriam), which focuses on the firmament of time. This is the poem quoted on the south side of the Hogg building, referring to the time when this part of Texas was at the bottom of the sea. Relate to the quote from Eiseley's Firmament of Time.

[2] Read "Evolution" on the debate between Darwinism and the literal interpretation of the Bible. Basically, the problem was the belief that fossils and multiple strata in the crust of the earth (more than seven) meant that Genesis could not be scientifically true if taken literally. This was not necessarily a problem for a Rabbi or a Jesuit priest, but fundamentalists, then and now, who insist on a literal interpretation of the Bible were and are troubled by this.

[3] In that context read poem #56 (In Memoriam), written by Tennyson when speculated on the meaning of fossils in "scarped cliff and quarried stone." In this poem "type" means "species." As you can see, to him, fossils provide that species could become extinct, and thus according to the Darwinian interpretation, homo sapiens also could become extinct. If this is true, he feared, churches and organized religion based on the Bible could become meaningless and "love thy neighbor as thyself" reverts to the war among dinosaurs and other "dragons of the prime." Eventually he solved the problem in the same series of poems (In Memoriam), but this is a famous statement of the predicament.

These pictures bring up the issue of your verbal vs. your visual styles of learning and expression. Your grade on the A2 is also enhanced by quotations from our readings, such as those on 216-237.

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DRAWING, WRITING, AND ARCHITECTURE: The SYCAMORE VS. the MODERNIST ARCHITECTURE of the Humanities Research Center

Weather permitting, we will be going from the classroom to the sycamore in front of the Humanities Research Center building. There we will spend about half our time drawing and half our time writing in our journals. One of our themes will be the contrast between the tree and the modern architecture of the building.

Our recurring question: Are these buildings (in this case, the HRC ) “True to Nature”? Are they “True to Nature” in Ruskin’s sense of the words? Can the influence of Ruskin’s essay be detected in these buildings? Can you find his six features of Gothic in them? What sentences are illustrated by what features? What sentences are contradicted by what features?

FEB. 12, Zilker excursion: bring anthology and writing materials and meet at the Bamboo hut in the Taniguchi oriental garden at 1:30; 16 points to be earned, -16 points if you do not attend. To make up for not attending with the class, go on your own, take pictures that prove you were there, and write a four-page paper according to the form on p. 693.

The Japanese Garden was built by Isamu Taniguchi, father of a dean of the school of architecture and author of "The spirit of the garden": “one unified beauty... the embodiment of the peaceful coexistence of all the elements of nature.’¸ Read about the Oriental garden, the Prehistoric Garden, and the sculptures in Zilker Park. ¸ Check out pictures of these places on our web site.

Feb. Feb. 14. Class #9. Meet at Littlefield house 24th and Whitis. P1A posted on DB before class, responses to others required within three days.

and/or do iconographic analyses of the griffins and one or more of the following

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Optional Journal -- do not repeat material from contributions to Feb. 14 Discussion Board

and/or do iconographic analyses of the griffins and one or more of the following

Feb.2 3 #12 P1A HARD COPY DUE. Meet in Par 104. Modernism and Antimodernism Comparison: University Teaching Center and University Christian Church, etc.

Required Journal either on pp. 721-740, 756-760, 764-771 or an analysis of an image from the internet reading

What is a touchstone? A very smooth, fine-grained, black or dark-coloured variety of quartz or jasper (also called BASANITE), used for testing the quality of gold and silver alloys by the colour of the streak produced by rubbing them upon it; a piece of such stone used for this purpose.

b. fig. That which serves to test or try the genuineness or value of anything; a test, criterion.

….SHEFFIELD (Dk. Buckhm.) Wks. (1753) II. 207 Time..in all matters of writing, is the only true touchstone of merit. 1822 HAZLITT Table-t. I. xi. 253 Well-digested schemes will stand the touchstone of experience. 1871 BLACKIE Four Phases i. 42 The touchstone..to distinguish the true man..from the false pretender.

What do we mean by nature? "11. a. The phenomena of the physical world collectively; esp. plants, animals, and other features and products of the earth itself, as opposed to humans and human creations." O.E.D.

and then -- she found herself at last in the beautiful garden, among the bright flower-beds and the cool fountains."

Comparison of RTF bldg. and ALL SAINTS: modernism and ANTIMODERNISM IN COLLEGE

Mar. 9 class # 16 REVISED HARD COPY OF PROJECT DUE. Bring it and $8.50. Meet at Story of Texas (Bullock) museum at Martin Luther King and Congress/Speedway.

Who Are You? A Texan? What is the relation between nature and civilization in Texas?

Now & Then tour of The University of Texas at Austin from the 1920s to 1980s.

Pictorial Tour images of classroom buildings, laboratories, museum artifacts, commencement exercises and more.

Scenes from the Top Take a virtual guided tour around the observation deck of the university's Tower.

Mar. 23 class #18 LR MIDTERM [80 PTS.] posted on DB, responses to others required

710 Antimodernism 711 Islamic “antimodernism”: 712 Romanticism 713 Medievalism

Mar. 28: class #19 Texan relation to nature as seen in campus sculpture: Meet at Dobie's house 702 E. Dean Keeton St. (now the Michener Center for Writers). Opposite chilling station no. 4 and the law school.

Optional Journal CHOOSE A WORK OF ART FOR YOUR CLASS PRSENTATION APRIL 11 OR APRIL 13, EMAIL CHOICE TO INSTRUCTOR A.S.A.P.

818-820 Their Influence on Hopkins 821-822 “Some Characteristics of Pre-Raphaelite Painting and Poetry”

As you explore Gothic architecture try to recall symbols of the female on this campus you can compare to those in medieval art and architecture:

The Return to the Feminine in Western Civilization

The presence that thus rose so strangely beside the waters, is expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years men had come to desire. Hers is the head upon which all "the ends of the world are come," and the eyelids are a little weary. It is a beauty wrought out from within upon the flesh, the deposit, little cell by cell, of strange thoughts and fantastic reveries and exquisite passions. Set it for a moment beside one of those white Greek goddesses or beautiful women of antiquity, and how would they be troubled by this beauty, into which the soul with all its maladies has passed! All the thoughts and experience of the world have etched and moulded there, in that which they have of power to refine and make expressive the outward form, the animalism of Greece, the lust of Rome, the reverie of the middle age with its spiritual ambition and imaginative loves, the return of the Pagan world, the sins of the Borgias. She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the grave; and has been a diver in deep seas, and keeps their fallen day about her; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants: and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes, and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments, and tinged the eyelids and the hands. The fancy of a perpetual life, sweeping together ten thousand experiences, is an old one; and modern thought has conceived the idea of humanity as wrought upon by, and summing up in itself, all modes of thought and life. Certainly Lady Lisa might stand as the embodiment of the old fancy, the symbol of the modern idea.

Vestiges of the Return in Austin

Our Lady of Guadalupe in the Tower

Reclining Female Statue on the Fourth Floor of the Tower

Images of the Female in the President's Office

Seal of the University of Virginia in the Wrenn Library

Images of the Female in the Stained Glass of the Wrenn Library

Sutton Hall: Michelangelo's madonna

close up of Sutton madonna and children

Images of the Female in Parlin Hall #132

Colombia as Victory in Littlefield Fountain sculpture

Virgo among the Zodiac Signs on Battle Hall (better picture needed)

Umlauf's "Family" in front of the Business school

Alice and Other Females in the Etched Glass of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

Sculpture Around the Alumni Center: Umlauf's Madonna and Child

Sculpture Around the Alumni Center: the Family

Sculpture Around the Alumni Center: the Girl in the Generations Sculpture

Female Student Sculpture Around the Alumni Center

Sculpture Around the Alumni Center: the Freedom Mare

Statue of Memory? in the Stadium

Nuestra Senora exhibition formerly at the Center for Mexican American Studies (West Mall Office Bldg.)

Near Campus: Images formerly in the University Catholic Center

Near Campus: Mary in Stained Glass Window at All Saints Chapel

Near Campus: Texas Goddess of Liberty and other Females in the Bullock Story of Texas Museum

Images formerly in the University Catholic Center

Pioneer Woman Statue with Texas Goddess of Liberty on the Capitol in the background

A Relic of American Medievalism: St. Mary's Cathedral downtown

The Return in Medieval Europe

from Mt. St. Michel Mount Saint Michel to Notre Dame de Chartres

Notre Dame d' Amiens

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Now & Then tour of The University of Texas at Austin from the 1920s to 1980s.

Pictorial Tour images of classroom buildings, laboratories, museum artifacts, commencement exercises and more.

Scenes from the Top Take a virtual guided tour around the observation deck of the university's Tower.

APRIL 8, 4 PM DOWNTOWN EXURSION: meet at northern entrance of the capitol. 22 points to be earned, -22 points if you do not attend.

review, connect, hammer into unity: Crowe on the Pantheon, Pugin on Neoclassic vs. Gothic, and Ruskin on Gothic

756-760 “History is My Home”: A Survey of Texas Architecture 761 U.T.’s neoclassical homes: Woodlawn and Sweetbrush 762-763 Columns and Domes

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If you have to do this excursion on your own, follow these directions. Make sure to include yourself in a number of the photos in front of the buildings to prove you actually went there rather than just surfed the net.

[1] At the capitol, to identify briefly with ancient Greece, either photograph or identify with EXACT locations, examples of Doric, Ionic, and Cornithian columns (one pt. each).

[2] To identify with ancient Rome, lay down on your back as close to the center of the capitol dome as possible. Look up and describe the effect on you of the dome. (up to seven points.) What Roman buildings are famous for their domes (two pts.)

[3] With the map in front of you of Victorian/Historic Downtown Austin, go from building 1 to building 48. Identify the symbol on this building that connects you to ancient Israel (one point).

[4] Proceed to building 47. To identify with medieval Christianity, looking at the front of the building, explain how it fits Ruskin's second principle of "The Nature of Gothic" (one point). Enter the church and describe the effect on you of the interior (up to seven points).

[5] Check out buildings 46, 7, 8, 9, 10 on the way to building 11. To explore your identity as a Texan, identify the examples of Ruskin's fourth principle on the outside of the building (one pt.) and explain the relevance of the term "Widow Maker" to the interior (one point).

Note that all these buildings were built in this town around the same time and thus demonstrate that to be a Texan is also to be an ancient Greek, a Roman, an Israelite, a medieval Christian, and ..........

on April 11 meet at HRC second floor: STUDENT PRESENTATIONS: Each student will have about 7 minutes to "present" (explain, tell more about, ....) a website/power point or handouts about a painting or related work of art by one of the Pre-Raphaelites, starting with the Pre-Raphaelite holdings of the HRC on april 11 and going on other PRB selections, such as the murals in the Oxford student union on April 13. -15 if no presentation is made when it is scheduled.

859-870 Jerome Bump, “Christina Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood”

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April 20 class #26 REVISED LR MIDTERM [30 PTS.] hard copy DUE. the grotesque in art and architecture

1004B-1008 Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, Oxford sculptor of the grotesque

Assignment: Choose the best images of grotesques from our website (see below) or the internet to illustrate [1] Ruskin's descriptions of the savage and grotesque; [2] Hugo's Quasimodo; and [3] each, individual goblin in Goblin Market. When you have a choice ready, go to the Gargoyle Discussion Board, quote the relevant passage word for word, identify the author and page number, explain why you think this is the best image for these words, attach the image, and send your contribution to the Discussion Board. Points will be awarded on the basis of how persuasive your argument is that you have found the best image for those words. Then go on to the next grotesque image that seems to fit other words and do the same for that. And so on, with points awarded for each contribution. You can also do images of Oxford that fit with our reading assignment from Jude the Obscure.

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MAY 2& 4 [#29 & #30] NO CLASS this week TO COMPENSATE YOU SOMEWHAT FOR THE CLASS TIME IN EXCURSIONS OFF CAMPUS TO DOWNTOWN AND ZILKER

MAY 2. LR FINAL [150 PTS.] hard copy and htm CD version due in Par 132 by 3.

E 320M, Nineteenth-century Literature, Architecture, and Art -- Spring 06

2-3:30 PAR 104

Computer-Assisted Instruction

Substantial Writing Component

These pictures bring up the issue of your verbal vs. your visual styles of learning and expression. Your grade on the A2 is also enhanced by quotations from our readings, such as those on 216-237.

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The Return to the Feminine in Western Civilization

The Return in Medieval Europe

from Mt. St. Michel to Notre Dame de Chartres

Notre Dame d' Amiens
additional images

E 320M, Nineteenth-century Literature, Architecture, and Art -- Spring 06

2-3:30 PAR 104

Computer-Assisted Instruction

Substantial Writing Component

These pictures bring up the issue of your verbal vs. your visual styles of learning and expression. Your grade on the A2 is also enhanced by quotations from our readings, such as those on 216-237.

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The Return to the Feminine in Western Civilization

The Return in Medieval Europe from Mt. St. Michel to Notre Dame de Chartres Notre Dame d' Amiens additional images

The Return in Medieval Europe

from Mt. St. Michel to Notre Dame de Chartres

Notre Dame d' Amiens
additional images