...Paul T. Corrigan This article shows how and why one might teach painting as a reading practice in a literature course. Painting in response to a literary text can deepen the impact that the text has on a reader/painter and can develop her or his ability to read well. Such an activity taps...

... Painting as a Reading Practice Paul T. Corrigan I am particularly interested in teaching reading practices, and one practice that I have been teaching my literature students is that of painting in response to texts. I got started with this activity through rst doing it myself. One of my...

... University Press . An in-depth look at the influence of poetry upon Michelangelo, Vasari, and Condivi and their focus upon biography and autobiography related to artistic creativity . Hulce Clark . 1990 . The Rule of Art: Literature and Painting in the Renaissance . Chicago : University...

... and technological, is pushing students in the other direction, toward immediacy, rapidity, and spontaneity—and against this other kind of opportunity. I want to give them the permission and the structures to slow down by inviting students in an art history class to spend three full hours looking at [a] painting...

...Virginia Pompei Jones Balzac, Honore de. 1995 . “A Passion in the Desert.” In The World Treasury of Love Stories , ed. Clifton Fadiman, 12 -22. New York: Oxford University Press. Barker, Virgil. 1950 . American Painting: History and Interpretation . New York: Macmillan. Gordimer...

... to showcase several examples of realistic paintings. I begin with the work of Thomas Eakins. His “The Biglen Brothers Racing” (ca. 1873) is one of a number of rowing scenes realistically revealing the body straining in motion, yet with zest for the experience, and offering interesting studies...

... artistically in their own creative illusions. Jones    Romanticism, Realism, and Culture 265 Visual Art in the Literature Classroom To illustrate the realistic movement, I use a visualizer to showcase several examples of realistic paintings. I begin with the work of Thomas...

... artistically in their own creative illusions. Jones    Romanticism, Realism, and Culture 265 Visual Art in the Literature Classroom To illustrate the realistic movement, I use a visualizer to showcase several examples of realistic paintings. I begin with the work of Thomas...

... . 2007 . Dante on View: The Reception of Dante in the Visual and Performing Arts . Aldershot : Ashgate . Essay collection on the visual reception of Dante in painting, print, performance, film, and so on, from medieval illuminated manuscripts to contemporary film and multimedia art . Griffiths...

... better. In short, reading is a process but not just any kind of process. Scholes shows what he means by off ering a reading of a seventeenth-century painting attributed to George de La Tour, The Education of the Virgin, which depicts a young girl reading by candlelight a book that is held on the lap...

... are very limited despite the importance it bears for her future. As Selfe and Hawisher point out, even though readers might hope to see a picture of progress painted in this chapter as three generations are described, increasing access to technology and literacy does not turn out to be the case...

... the experiences of an extremely small fraction of Booth’s students, and, although I am sure that they capture elements of his achievement that many others will recognize, I am also sure that the portrait they paint is not complete. Indeed, my own sense of owing Booth an incalculable debt makes me think...

... reminds stu- dents of America s past, in which Native Americans were forced to battle whites for survival. Students can then look to The Red Convertible for characters parading around in war paint and feathers. There are none, and the warrior Indian is recognized for the racist caricature...

... reminds stu- dents of America s past, in which Native Americans were forced to battle whites for survival. Students can then look to The Red Convertible for characters parading around in war paint and feathers. There are none, and the warrior Indian is recognized for the racist caricature...

... reminds stu- dents of America s past, in which Native Americans were forced to battle whites for survival. Students can then look to The Red Convertible for characters parading around in war paint and feathers. There are none, and the warrior Indian is recognized for the racist caricature...

... Blog , 8 September . my-calligraphy-blog.blogspot.com/2011/09/italic-exemplars.html . Theophilus . 1963 . On Divers Arts: The Foremost Medieval Treatise on Painting, Glassmaking, and Metalwork , trans. Hawthorne John G. Smith Cyril Stanley . New York : Dover . Trimbur...

... famous phrase “ut pictura poesis” (“as in painting, so in poetry”) reminds us that “the sister arts” share a long history, a vocabulary, and a whole host of key aesthetic principles. What Claus Clüver (1989) has Sword    Teaching in Color 233 dubbed...

..., or at least awareness that she may mean many things simultane- ously, some of which may be unknown even to her. I often open discussion by citing the passage in the first book in which Aurora reveals her aims in writing: As when you paint your portrait for a friend, Who keeps it in a drawer...

... quickly) We were short one staff person, so I had to supervise two groups. Then one of the groups temporarily lost their costumes. And then the kids painting the backdrop spilled red paint on the floor and on my sneakers. (Points to her pink-smeared feet) I wish it was just this week, but really, so...

.... , 197 – 216 . Menlo Park, CA : Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching . Corrigan Paul T. 2012 . “ Painting as a Reading Practice .” Pedagogy 12 . 1 : 168 – 75 . Corrigan Paul T. 2013/14 . “ Attending to the Act of Reading: Critical Reading, Contemplative Reading...