This unit will look at the interaction of literature and visual and performance arts in different countries in the 19th and 20th centuries. How do these art forms draw upon each other to represent and frame society and culture, and how does this influence our reading of them These questions will be examined through examples from literature, theatre, painting, dance, photography, cinema and/or mixed media and movements such as orientalism, realism, symbolism, modernism, postmodernism, pop art and abstract expressionism.
Unit details and rules
| Academic unit | International Comparative Literature and Translation Studies |
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| Credit points | 6 |
| Prerequisites
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At least 12 credit points at 1000 level in any of the following: Arabic Language and Cultures or Chinese Studies or English or European Studies or French and Francophone Studies or Germanic Studies or Hebrew (Modern) or Indonesian Studies or Italian Studies or Japanese Studies or Korean Studies or Modern Greek or Byzantine Studies or Spanish and Latin American Studies or Art History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in ICLS or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Italian Studies |
| Corequisites
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None |
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Prohibitions
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ICLS2002 |
| Assumed knowledge
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None |
| Available to study abroad and exchange students | Yes |
Teaching staff
| Coordinator | Giorgia Alu, giorgia.alu@sydney.edu.au |
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