Course code

HIK7452.HT

old course code

Course title in Estonian

Sõna ja pilt keskajal/renessansi ajal

Course title in English

Word and Image in the Middle Ages/Renaissance

ECTS credits

6.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2023/2024 Spring semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

- to learn about the relations of verbal and visual arts in late Medieval and Renaissance culture
- to understand the dynamics of these relations
- analyse late Medieval and Renaissance texts and art works in the context of their epocal rhetorics and practices and today’s theoretical research

Brief description of the course

This lecture and seminar course studies some key questions of the relation of verbal and pictorial expression from the late Middle Ages to the late Renaissance. The course has two supervisors with different expertise, hence the topics will be discussed from complementary slants. The basic topics to be discussed include (1) the question of „ut pictura poiesis“ from Horace’s „Ars poetica“ to Lessing’s „Laokoon or the Limits of Painting and Literature“; (2) the intersemiotic translation between the verbal and the visual; (3) seeing and understanding and the depiction of the visible and the invisible, including the issue of viewing regime; (4) the biblical and the pagan in verbal and visual arts; (5) 16th century European Reformations and the problem of Word and Image (6) the position of verbal and visual art and artists from the late Middle Ages to the eraly Baroque period

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
- knows the key problems in the relations of verbal and visual arts during the late Medieval and Renaissance periods;
- understand the dynamics of these relations;
- is able to analyse selected works in the context of epocal rhetorics and practices and today’s theoretical research;
- is able to raise new research problems.

Teacher

Andres Kurg

Additional information

Active participation in the lectures and seminars with required seminar presentations - 40% of the grade; examination essay - 60% of the grade.

Study programmes containing that course

Literary Studies (EKKTM/22.HT)
Literature, Visual Culture and Film Studies (HIKVM/22.HT)
Cultural Theory and Philosophy (HIKTM/21.HT)
Literature, Visual Culture and Film Studies (HIKVM/21.HT)
Literary Studies (EKKTM/21.HT)
Literary Studies (EKKTM/20.HT)
Cultural Theory and Philosophy (HIKTM/20.HT)
Literature, Visual Culture and Film Studies (HIKVM/20.HT)
Cultural Theory and Philosophy (HIKTM/19.HT)
Literary Studies (EKKTM/19.HT)
Literature, Visual Culture and Film Studies (HIKVM/19.HT)
Cultural Theory and Philosophy (HIKTM/18.HT)
Literature, Visual Culture and Film Studies (HIKVM/18.HT)
Cultural Theory and Philosophy (HIKTM/17.HT)
Literature, Visual Culture and Film Studies (HIKVM/17.HT)