In the immediate foreground of the picture plane is a herd of sheep. The sheep are reclining on the ground in manner that suggests that they have either been struck dead or are sleeping. Only several of the sheep are upright. To the left of the herd, guarded by a starkly pale dog standing in an aggressive pose, is a sleeping figure, presumably a shepherd.
Dr. Syntax falls backward off his rocky seat into the water. Though his hat has fallen into the water, he still clutches his pen and journal: he has evidently been sketching the moss-covered ruins of the castle crowning the small hill before him. To the right of the ruin a ship sails on the water, more hills rising behind it in the distance. On the left side of the print, Dr.
"Placing" Romanticism will mean working to incorporate its subject matter into your literary and cultural vocabulary. The best way to learn about literature is to write about it. Hence, this class will be organized around our writing and thinking, and will develop with our classroom discussions.
THE WAYS WE'LL DO THIS:
Over the course of the semester, you will assemble a PORTFOLIO which will be assessed at term's end and will consist of the following:
More than thirty years after his death, Paul de Man continues to strike a cultural nerve.
I grew up in Manchester, the venue for this year’s International Conference on Romanticism. Manchester is famous for its weather – not like California or the South of France are famous for their weather: no, Mancunian weather is grey and wet. And there is a distinctive quality to Mancunian wetness. I remember childhood days on which, even when it wasn’t raining, it was still, somehow, moist, Atlantic rain clouds trapped up against the buffer of the Pennines to the east dispersing a kind of inverse miasma from above.
