ENGL 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Fairy, Idolatry
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The bodies that are on display are a spectacle but are separated from human morals. Orfeo"s music and the e ect that it has on people or animals, people come together (harmony) There is a divine quality associated with orfeo"s music. Gradually reveals that he is orfeo to the steward (line 553) Shapes people"s emotions or reactions through speech: only seen in literature, not real life. Music is associated to the spiritual, language is associated with intellect. Music and speech require participance and is more communal, the statues/ visual art do not in the same way. Idolatry: the replacement of god with the elevation of things. The relationship between musical/linguistic art and visual art: There is a contest between a human living in time and a human on standstill in the. Temporal arts: you can"t have speech unless you have the ow of time, words can"t unfold.
