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ICLS2626: Words and Pictures Across Cultures
2026 unit information
This unit will look at the interaction of literature and visual and performance arts in different countries in the 19th and 20th centuries. How do these art forms draw upon each other to represent and frame society and culture, and how does this influence our reading of them These questions will be examined through examples from literature, theatre, painting, dance, photography, cinema and/or mixed media and movements such as orientalism, realism, symbolism, modernism, postmodernism, pop art and abstract expressionism.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Arts and Social Sciences
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | International Comparative Literature and Translation Studies |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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At least 12 credit points at 1000 level in any of the following: Arabic Language and Cultures or Chinese Studies or English or European Studies or French and Francophone Studies or Germanic Studies or Hebrew (Modern) or Indonesian Studies or Italian Studies or Japanese Studies or Korean Studies or Modern Greek or Byzantine Studies or Spanish and Latin American Studies or Art History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in ICLS or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Italian Studies |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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ICLS2002 |
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. develop skills for analysing the interplay between the verbal and the visual in comparative literary and cultural studies
- LO2. develop familiarity with the impact of innovations in visual/AV techniques and technologies on modernity in Western literature
- LO3. acquire better understanding of the socio-historical context of literary and artistic production
- LO4. extend their writing and analytical skills, in particular through an increased sensitivity to literary
- LO5. further develop their independent thinking and a critical attitude toward cultural assumptions and literary representations
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| Session | MoA ? | Location | Outline ? |
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Semester 2 2026
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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