English 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Sentence Clause Structure, Antihero, Asteroid Family
16 Dec 2017
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Literary theory: it is all about perspective and intellectual approach to how it does what it does. Formal: what does literature look like what are its parts and features (poem: stanza, rhyme, metre) Functional: what does literature do? (what does it do to you, others, history) Two related ideas were important to understanding how the renaissance approach literalture. Rhetoric can be defined as the art of persuasion. it was initially applied largely to legal contexts. At its most advanced rhetoric supplies enormously detailed rules on the use of language to persuade. how to build a work of literature. Criticism can be defined as the art of judging accurately and intelligently the effectiveness and. It is based on an analysis of the rhetoric of a work, and upon its form, as measured against classical standards and models. He argued that the physical world was just a degraded copy of an ideal world of perfect forms.
