ENGL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Move, Marcel Duchamp, In Medias Res

• School: Queen's University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 100
• Professor: John Pierce

Document Summary

:orientation of critical theirues in m. h abrams coordinates of art criticism. World=subject the artifact is about or signifies. Its an interralationship between all those coordinates with work in the centre of them all. Relationship of work to world = mimetic ciritism. Views the literary work as an imitation, reflection, or a representation of the wolrd and human life (abarams 72) Plato and artisotle: art as a mirror. Why are cat videos so important to our culture. Fake cat placed in room and real cat trying to interact with the fake one (imitation and representation of a real cat), starts to try and play. Imitation of objects of the world, but shouldn"t be confused as a real thing but we still have to make the connectiom. Never use the words real or realistic in your essays. Art is a uniquely human experience animals don"t understand art. If you don"t understand art you start freaking out.