MDSA01H3 Lecture 5: MDSAchpt5
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Aesthetics the meaningfulness of art (and life) as apprehended through the senses; the beauty of art and the sensual enjoyment it engenders. Affects the feelings, moods, emotions or passions that arise in relation to direct sensory data. Cluster the way individual signs are associated with and dissociated from one another. Form the creation and satisfaction of desire. Genre a type, kind or class of messages that share distinctive and identifiable aesthetic, stylistic, substantive, and/or ideological conventions. Iconic signs a sign that structurally resembles the object in which it stands. Indexical signs a sign that conveys meaning through cause or association. Narrative the visual or verbal retelling of a series of events, real or fictitious, that occur in (often chronological) succession. Rhetoric the ancient art of persuasion; the use of symbols by humans to influence and move other humans. Semiology ferdinand de saussure s approach to the study of signs.