Discussion Questions for the Week of 4 October 2004

Students in English and History of Art 151, Brown University, 2004

• William Holman Hunt's Illustration for Tennyson's "Godiva"
• Drastic Innovations on a Traditional Theme: Rossetti's Ecce Ancilla Domini
• A Dialectic of Beauty in Rossetti's Lady Lilith
• Longing and Connection in D.G. Rossetti's Prosperpine
• Rossetti's Interpretations: The Illustrations for Tennyson's "The Palace of Art"
• D.G. Rossetti's Prosperpine
• Rossetti's Found: Unfamiliar Territory
• Drastic Innovations on a Traditional Theme: Rossetti's Ecce Ancilla Domini
• The Beauty as Power in Rossetti's Lady Lilith
• Supernatural Reality in Beata Beatrix
• Hearts are Trumps: Are there men in the picture?
• Sensuality and Tragedy in Regina Cordium or The Queen of Hearts
• The Dual Sacrifices in Rossetti's Layered Passover Scene
• The Paradox of Beauty in D.G. Rossetti's Lady Lilith
• Textualization and Typology in The Passover in the Holy Family
• Astarte Syriaca: The Epitome of the Rossettian Pre-Raphaelite Love Goddess
• The Modern Lilith

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