FYSM 121 - Reading Faces:Literary and Visual Portraits

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Trinity College

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Imbedded in portraits-whether created by an author or an artist-are telling ideas about gender, race, physical appearance, occupations, social status, and prestige in a given time period. A portrait can reflect the best of human nature even as it can reveal the idiosyncrasies that mark us as individuals. Readings will include The Prologue to Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales; Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables;; The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama, and William Carlos Williams' The Doctor Stories. Visual portraits will include illuminations from the fifteenth-century Ellesmere manuscript of The Canterbury Tales, historical portraits, nineteenth-century daguerreotypes and tintypes, and contemporary portrait photography. We will also work with Trinity College's own portrait collection. Written assignments will involve literary critique, visual analysis, and creative writing. We will regularly ask the question, "Who are these people and why do they look like t 1.00 units, Seminar

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1.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.Trincoll.edu

Phone Number:

(860) 297-2000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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