Course Details
Country:
United Kingdom
Institution:
University of York
Course Title:
Art in the Present
Course Number:
ENG00082H
Course Description:
The aim of this module is to explore the rise of the contemporary art novel, its critical vocabularies, interdisciplinary forms, and negotiations with contemporary art culture. Traditionally, literary and art historical scholars have tended to understand the written mediation of visual art firstly in terms of ekphrasis—the literary description of a work of art, meaning to speak out from the work—and secondly, predominantly in terms of poetry. This module, however, explores the important turn toward art that the contemporary novel is witnessing and makes use of interdisciplinary vocabularies to discuss the innovative ways novelists, rather than poets, engage with visual art. You will begin by looking at the validity of the term ekphrasis for contemporary art novels with Chloe Aridjis, then explore a kind of contemporary novel that not only meditates on art, but that develops its own practice of art criticism. As novelist Ben Lerner declared in a 2013
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
ENGH 309
Course URL:
https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/ENG00082H/latest
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