E 375L, Victorian

Literature, Architecture, and Art

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1-8                   Table of Contents

WEB               Course Goals

WEB               Course Description

WEB               Reading Schedule

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COURSE POLICIES AND RESOURCES

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9-18                 [numbers not used]

19-21               Group Participation Guidelines

22-24               Guidelines for Listening

25                    Racial Harassment Policy

26-27               Sexual Harassment Policy

28-29               Drug and Alcohol Policy

30                    Undergraduate Writing Center FAC   211

31-32               Learning Skills Center

33                    Changing your email address for Blackboard

34-35                Grades Definition

36-7                 Motivation

38-9                 Overcoming Procrastination

40-1                 Designing Your Own Anti-procrastination Plan

42-6                 Perfectionism: the Double-Edged Sword

47A-B             Here Comes the Judge

47C                 PC vs. MAC

48-9                 Stress Test

50-3                 Depression

54-7                 Suicide Prevention

58-9                 Time Management

60                    Goal Setting

61                    Successful Student Traits

62A                 Think for Yourself                 

62B                 U. T. Core Values

63                    U. T. Traditions

64                    The Tower

65-6                 Hall of Noble Words

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WRITING INSTRUCTIONS

WEB               Journaling Instructions

WEB               Learning Record Instructions

WEB               Project Instructions: goals, requirements, grading, responding, revising

67-68C            Teaching/Learning Styles, for LR A2

68D-68L         Writing Styles, for LR A2

69-70               Putting Pages on the Web Using Webspace

71-9                 Dass, “The Witness,” for LR writing

80-1                 from Wild Mind

82A                 “Flow:” key to creativity

82B                 from Writing the Natural Way

83                    Coherence

84                    Some Useful Transitional Expressions

85-95               Eats, Shoots, and Leaves: commas, semicolons

96-99               Commas for Appositives

100-102           Hyphens

103-113           Quotations

114-16             Proofreading

115                  Why spell checkers are not enough

116A-E           Footnote style and placement

116F                Stages of the Creative Process

116G               Blocks to Creativity: Pride

116H               Keats’s Negative Capability

116I                 “The Mystery”

116J                Inspiration

116K               Reading as Inspiration

116L                Bump, Dualism and Creativity

116M              Dickens, Tale of Two Cities

116N               Hemingway on Rewriting

116O-117E     Moo Instructions

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WRITING ABOUT PLACE

117F-123        Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

124-134           Faigley, “Effective Visual Design”

135-145A        Semiotics, from The World is a Text

145B-145F      Place theory + topistics, from Nature and the Idea of a Man-made World

146-150           Four terms for sense of place: genius loci, querencia, inscape and instress

nature as place

151-155           Lopez, “A Literature of Place”

156                  Wordsworth,  “Michael, A Pastoral Poem”

home as place

157                  Pater, introduction

158-160           Pater, “The Child in the House”

school as place

161                  Dickens, introduction

162-4               Dickens, from Hard Times

165-8               Shideler, “The Classroom’s Sense of Place”

your places

169                  Road Map of Places in Your Life

170-3A            Road Map of Your Journey

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YOUR  COLLEGE “PLACE”

173B-C           Flawn, Address to the University, 1984

174-181C        Newman, The Idea of a University

182                  Boyer/Carnegie Research Univ. Report

183                  My Teaching Philosophy

184                  Map of Campus

185-6               U. T. Constitution and U. T.  Seal

187-8               Discovery Learning Project

189                  Discovery Learning

190                  The U. T. Moore Method

191A               The Amherst Baird Course

191B-C           Newman and the Liberal Arts

192-3               Brickley, “Value of the Liberal Arts”

194-5               Bump, “Logic of the Humanities”

196-201           Arnold, “Literature and Science’

202-205           Pater  Conclusion to The Renaissance

206                  U. T. English Mission Statement

207-221E        Wolfe, I Am Charlotte Simmons

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VIRTUAL STUDY ABROAD

A EUROPEAN PLACE: VICTORIAN OXFORD

222-5               Oxford University

226-234           English at Oxford

235-237           Selected Books on Oxford

238-286           Dougill, Oxford in English Literature

241-243                       Hopkins’s “Duns Scotus’s Oxford”

244-250,282-3             Carroll’s Alice books

252-255                       Romantic, Gothic Oxford

255-257                       Tractarian Oxford: religious medievalism

258-265,284                Arnold’s “dreaming spires”: “Scholar Gypsy”; “Thyrsis”

266-268                       Hopkins’s Oxford: “Binsey Poplars”

271-281                       Hardy’s Oxford: Jude the Obscure

285-286                       Christ Church Cathedral

287-299           J. Morris, The Oxford Book of Oxford

287                              Keats’s Oxford

287                              Wordsworth’s Oxford

289-292                       Newman’s Oxford

293-295                       Ruskin’s Oxford

296-297                       Pre-Raphaelite Oxford

298-299                       Arnold’s “Scholar Gypsy” + “Thyrsis”

300-306A        Oxford: Dodgson’s Drawings

306B-306F      Dodgson’s parody of Wordsworth + definition of parody

307-316           Guide to Fawley (Hardy’s Marygreen)

317-318           Zuleika Discussion Questions; Zuleika as symbol, as medieval romance

319                  Oxford Motto: Psalm 27

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HOPKINS AT OXFORD

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320-336           Key to HRC ghost windows

337-338           Hopkins, introduction

339-340           Ruskin, introduction

341-367A        Bump, "Manual Photography: Hopkins, Ruskin, and Victorian  Drawing"

367B-E            Hopkins’ diaries, 1863-4

368-378           Bump, “Catalogue of the Hopkins Collection”

379                  Hopkins, “Spring”; “God’s Grandeur”; “Starlight Night”

379-380A        Hopkins, “In the Valley of the Elwy”; “Windhover”; “Sea + Skylark”

380A-380B     Hopkins, “Pied Beauty”; “Hurrahing in Harvest”

381-383           Bump, Gerard Manley Hopkins:  letter of  1885

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NATURE AND THE COLLEGE EXPERIENCE

TIME EMBODIED IN PLACES IN NATURE AND ARCHITECTURE ON CAMPUS, ESP. LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AND NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS

THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM

384-389           Ellison and Jones, “Walking the Forty Acres”

390-393           Evolutionary and Geological Timelines

394-398           Texas Memorial Museum guide to ghosts

399-402           Genesis

403-404           Tennyson, introduction

405-406D        Tennyson, In Memoriam selections

406E                Browning and evolution

407                  Eiseley, from The Firmament of Time

408-412           Darwin, introduction

413                  Evolution, introduction

414-419           Darwin,  from The Origin of Species

420A               “The Tree of Life”

420B              “Real Alice,” Oxford Univ. Museum

420C              “Oxford Dodo,” Oxford Univ. Museum

420D-F           Huxley Wilberforce debate

NATURE ON CAMPUS

421A               Hopkins’ “Binsey Poplars” and “Duns Scotus’s Oxford”

421B               Monet’s Poplars (poor reproduction)

421C               Waller Creek, introduction

422                  Jones, introduction

423-430           Jones, from Life on Waller Creek

431-436           Jones, "Anatomy of a Riot," Battle of Waller Creek

437                  "Committed 'til Death" What would you be willing to die for?

438-440A        Oliphant, “San Jacinto”

CAMPUS LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

440B-C           Klingenborg, Without Walls

441                  Definition of “garden”; “Arcadian golden age”

442-445           Tower Memorial Garden

446-447           Forster, introduction

448-453           Forster, “The Other Side of the Hedge”

454-457           Arnold, introduction,

458                  Arnold, “Kensington Gardens”

459-460           Definitions of bucolic, pastoral, etc.

461-474           Arnold, “The Scholar Gypsy” with Victorian photographs

475-488           Arnold, “Thyrsis” with Victorian photographs

ZILKER PARK: AUSTIN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

489                  Form for visit to the garden

490-491           Isamu Taniguchi

492                  Taniguchi, "The Spirit of the Garden"

493-503           Bauld, “The Mother Tree”

504                  map of Zilker park

505                  Map of Zilker Botanical Garden

506                  Zilker Park extra credit options,

507-8               Philosopher’s Rock

509                  Hartman Prehistoric Garden

ANTIMODERNISM IN LITERATURE, ARCHITECTURE, AND THE VISUAL ARTS

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ANTIMODERNISM IN COLLEGE: TEXAS

510-513           Littlefield House

514                  Definitions of antimodernism

515A               Definitions of Romanticism

515B               Definition of medievalism

516-521           Moreland, Medievalist Impulse

522A               Definitions of Gothic

522B-C           Definitions of Grotesque

523-550           Ruskin, “The Nature of Gothic”

551-552           Henry Adams (American)

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

567                  Pater “La Gioconda”

568-569           Pugin, introduction

570-5               Pugin, Contrasts

575                  Hugo, introduction (French)

576-582           Hugo, from Notre Dame De Paris,

583-594A        Gargoyles

594B               Longhorns, Totem Poles, and Gargoyles

595-598           Symbols of University Christian Church stained glass and sculpture

599-619           Iconography of All Saints Chapel stained glass

620-621           Iconography of scallop shell stone carvings at U. T.

622                  Old Main, University of Texas

623-624           Booton, “Spanish Plateresque Architecture”

625-633           “History is My Home: A Survey of  Texas  Architectural  Styles”

634                  Woodlawn and Sweetbrush

635-6               [numbers not used]

637-638           Columns and Domes

639-640           Victorian Bldgs, Austin

641-648           Nicholas Clayton, Texas’ Victorian Architect

649-650           Bishop’s Palace, Galveston

651-653A        Selected Victorian Eclectic “Gothic” Architecture in Texas

653B-L           Victorian Downtown Austin

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ANTIMODERNISM IN COLLEGE: OXFORD

654-670           Blackwood, Oxford Gargoyles and Grotesques

657                              Jude the Obscure

658                              Ruskin and Morris, Arts and Crafts Society

665                              Oscar Wilde

666                              Zuleika Dobson

670                              John Ruskin

671-672           Tractarianism

673-689           Oxford Union Murals: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table

690-699           The Pre-Raphaelites

692-695                       Hopkins and the Pre-Raphaelites

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

702-703           Pre-Raphaelite Art at the HRC

704-705           Rossetti, introduction

706-707           Rossetti, La Pia + “Lady Lilith”

707A               Rossetti, “Mary Magdalene”

707B-C           Rossetti, three sonnets from The House of Life

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

715-730           Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market

731                  Introduction to William Morris

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

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

753-758A        William Morris at the HRC

754                              Beerbohm and the Rossettis

758B-C           Morris, the Kelmscott Chaucer

758D               Yeats and the Pre-Raphaelites, introduction

758E                Yeats and the Pre-Raphaelites, autobiography

Only Connect: Hammer Your Thoughts into Unity

759                  Yeats, “Hammer Your Thoughts”

760                  Hopkins, “As kingfishers”

761-2   A         Hopkins, 1877 sonnets

762B-C           Browning, “Two in the Campagna”

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THE VICTORIAN CONTEXT

762D-762E     Author Timeline: 1709-1918

763-7               Tennyson, “The Lotos Eaters”

738                  “Lotos “Eaters discussion

739-747           Miller,  “The Disappearance of God”

748-753           Hopkins, the terrible sonnets and “That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire”

754                  Ruskin’s Deconversion

755-758           Arnold, “Stanzas from the Grand Chartreuse”

759-765           Mill, Autobiography: A Crisis

766-773           Fleming, “Darwin, the Anesthetic Man”

774-785           Buckley, “The Pattern of Conversion”

786-789           God Replaced by romantic love? Arnold: “Dover Beach,” Marguerite poems

790-792A        Bagehot, The Grotesque in Poetry

792B               Browning, introduction

793-795           Browning, “My Last Duchess,” “Porphyria’s Lover”

796                  Browning discussion questions

797-8               “My Last Professor”

799                  Criteria of dramatic monologues

800                  Sympathetic Imagination,

801                  Flowers, the Moral Imagination


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