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The Pre-Raphaelites Choose linkLinks Course Description   The group of painters and poets known  as the Pre-Raphaelites derive their name from the fact that they rejected the style of painting associated  with the Italian school of the Raphaelites. Instead,  they championed certain artists who had gone before Raphael and whom they found less conventional in approach. Working in the mid-nineteenth century, the Pre-Raphaelites give expression to the contradictions that existed in  Victorian Britain between a process of continuing industrialization  and technological advances on the one hand and people's  need for spiritual orientation in an increasingly materialized world on the other. It is characteristic of these artists  that they often do not restrict themselves to one artistic  discipline but are writers and painters at the same time. This holds true in particular for Dante Gabriel  Rossetti, who wrote poems as companion pieces to his  paintings. In this course, we will study the verbal and visual work of Rossetti and other poets from the  group, familiarizing ourselves with their intricate  symbolism and the ways in which they juxtapose the spiritual  and the mundane. Prerequisites: Earning a course credit  in this Proseminar presupposes that students have already taken the lecture course "Introduction to the Study of Literature" and that they attend the seminar on a regular basis. Required reading: Bode, Christoph (2001).  Einf�hrung in die Lyrikanalyse. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag (ISBN 3-88476-478-0). Links:   Link   Description   Rating   Posted by               The  Rossetti Archive     An extensive archive of academic papers on  Rossetti.   Content: 5 Layout: 4 Speed: 4   MLE               The William Morris Gallery     The  homepage of the William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow.   Content: 4 Layout: 5 Speed: 4   MLE               The  Victorian Web     A  database (part of the Victorian Web)which  holds material on Algernon Charles Swinburne, Victorian literature, society, politics  etc.   Content: 4 Layout: 3 Speed: 4   MLE               Pre-Raphaelites     A  collection of paintings (annotations included).   Content: 4 Layout: 3 Speed: 4   MLE               SELECTED POETRY OF ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE (1837-1909)     Offers selected poetry by Algernon Charles Swinburne  in plain e-text as well as some biographical  notes.   Content: 3 Layout: 3 Speed: 4   MLE               SELECTED POETRY OF GEORGE MEREDITH (1828-1909)     Offers selected poetry by George Meredith.   Content: 3 Layout: 3 Speed: 4   MLE               SELECTED POETRY OF COVENTRY PATMORE (1823-1896)     Offers selected poetry by Coventry Patmore in plain e-text.   Content: 2 Layout: 3 Speed: 4   MLE

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