ITA201H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences
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The period that precedes this is the renaissance era 180-1600. Renaissance achieved a certain period of harmony, Harmony between man and the universe, the role of man how he represents himself in the arts vs. the outside world, harmony informs, the arts/literature was harmonized, established forms, established both practical forms or forms vis- -vis the metaphysics. Galileo: discovered that copernicus theory that planets revolve around the sun. The knowledge od the world is changing 1492: discovered the new world, our vision is expanding, The function of expression and poetry was viewed differently, because the world suddenly was not so harmonise, Baroque different modes of expression, take them to the extreme, use hyperboles so that we achieve the best possible reaction. This is going to be the function and purpose of literature. Poets of the time, main task to show that the world is not as harmonise, values and themes that have been treated unquestionable are not that way anymore.
