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From Modern Painters<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1.  On 1320-21 (\u201cGreatness in Art\u201d), how does Ruskin define \u201cgreat art\u201d?  What are its characteristics, and what effect should it have on an audience? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2.  On 1321-22 (\u201cThe Slave Ship\u201d), how does Ruskin\u2019s description of Turner\u2019s painting \u201cThe Slave Ship\u201d illustrate his definition of greatness in art?  Moreover, characterize Ruskin\u2019s style in his description of \u201cThe Slave Ship.\u201d  How appropriate is the description to the painting?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3.  On 1323-24 (Of the Pathetic Fallacy\u201d), what is the \u201cpathetic fallacy\u201d?  According to Ruskin, what perspective about poetic language do readers risk losing when a poet commits that fallacy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Nature of Gothic\u201d<\/strong> from The Stones of Venice<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

4.  On 1326-27, what are the three kinds of architectural ornament (1434)?  How do those three kinds of ornament encapsulate Ruskin\u2019s moral interpretation of history?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5.  On 1327-30, how does Ruskin explain the spiritual advantages of the Gothic (medieval, Christian, or \u201cconstitutional\u201d) style of ornament?  What rationale does he provide for largely rejecting the modern capitalist principle of \u201cthe division of labor\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6.  On 1330-32, what responsibility, according to Ruskin, does the Victorian consumer bear towards workers?  How, in other words, does the consumer fit into Ruskin\u2019s moral framework, his scheme for improving life for British workers?  How does his contrast between machine-made glass beads and hand-made Venetian glass help him drive home his argument about the value of labor?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7.  On 1332-33, what analysis does Ruskin offer concerning British labor and class divisions?  To what extent is his thinking in this regard similar to Carlyle\u2019s in Past and Present<\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

8.  On 1333-34, what rationale does Ruskin give for favoring \u201cimperfection\u201d in the products of labor over \u201cperfection\u201d?  What role does his mention of the foxglove blossom play in his argument? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

9.  General question: economists in Ruskin\u2019s own day and in more recent times have sometimes said that the great Victorian sage was na\u00efve when he tried to suffuse capitalist market practices with moral concerns and even \u201ccorrectness.\u201d  They have a point since in a market society, powerful incentives govern both production and consumption.  How much control, in your view, can consumers individually and collectively exercise over what gets produced and how it gets produced and distributed?  Can we make a moral difference, or do you think the \u201camorality\u201d of the market is so strong that it\u2019s hard to imagine conscientious people bringing about any real change for the better?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edition: <\/strong>Abrams, M. H. et al, eds.  The Norton Anthology of English Literature.  <\/em>8th ed.  Vol. E.  New York: Norton, 2006.  ISBN Package 2 (Vols. DEF) 0-393-92834-9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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