The course ranges from the study of nineteenth century folklore and slave narratives to the writings of the 1920's Harlem Renaissance, to modern and contemporary works. The semester division is the Civil War. Emphasis is on the evolution of major literary and historical trends, and on close reading and written analysis of selected works. Required of English majors. The course combines Music, Poetry, Paintings, and Architecture in a multi-disciplinary study of how these arts variously interrelate.
Common themes appear in the sense of artful order, structure, rhythm, gradation, and coherence.
Frank Lloyd Wright, Shakespeare, American Poetry, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Cathedral Basilica of Covington, the Athenaeum, and the Taft Museum. This course fulfills a fine arts requirement for the core. This course studies how to read a film, with particular emphasis on the art of translation of novels into films. Students explore the relationship between two highly developed art forms, through critical reading and comparison. The course focuses on the long oral Native American tradition and how it has been translated into the written word by contemporary writers.