EN 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Erotic Art, Medieval Art, Literal And Figurative Language
Monday, September 19th, 2016
Lecture Two:
Trivia: Sesquipedalian
➢ Polysyllabic word
➢ Someone who uses big words you don’t understand
➢ 6 footed, awkward, bulky and long
Trivia: Sarcasm
➢ To tear something with your teeth
Renaissance: 1592-1642
➢ Now been renamed to early moderns
➢ Change in sensitivity from early literature
➢ Called the renaissance because it was a rebirth of interest in classical literature.
➢ Rebirth of knowledge
➢ The modern period
➢ Define by particular paradigm humanism: concept that informs the readings for
today; Johnson and Sydney (total opposites in what is language and what English
should do)
➢ It is a movement away from things religious to secular. Before the renaissance most
of literature was informed by religion.
➢ Miracle Plays: Dramatized plays based on scripture.
➢ It still was a religious time but it started to shift over into humanist.
➢ Medieval art: two dimension, no depth, done in religious theme, everyone is fully
clothed
➢ Renaissance Art: There is depth, sensuality, playful sensuality (Jesus figure that
looks bigger than a baby, and groping at mother breast way after he should be
breast feeding), makes HUMANS the centre of everything not GOD. It is erotic art.
There is full figured women (fat).
➢ Shakespeare’s tragedy’s are based on the rise of ONE particular individual
(Macbeth); humanism and renaissance
➢ This period is based on the fascination of human and everything about humanity.
➢ All arguing about what is literature, what is language and how we should write.
➢ Humanism:
Three Levels of Language:
1. The lowest level of language: Prose
➢ The written record of how we normally speak. It stands apart from poetry.
➢ Text that goes from margin to margin (without reading you can tell its prose)
➢ You can have rhyme in prose, you can make prose poetic.
➢ You can figurative language in prose as well.
2. The second language: Blank Verse
➢ Poetry that has regular meter but no rhyme.
➢ Text that have jagged, unjustified margins with the meter, 10 syllable lines.
3. The Third language: Poetry
➢ Has rhyme and regular meter
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Document Summary
Someone who uses big words you don"t understand. Called the renaissance because it was a rebirth of interest in classical literature. Define by particular paradigm humanism: concept that informs the readings for today; johnson and sydney (total opposites in what is language and what english should do) It is a movement away from things religious to secular. Before the renaissance most of literature was informed by religion. Miracle plays: dramatized plays based on scripture. It still was a religious time but it started to shift over into humanist. Medieval art: two dimension, no depth, done in religious theme, everyone is fully clothed. Renaissance art: there is depth, sensuality, playful sensuality (jesus figure that looks bigger than a baby, and groping at mother breast way after he should be breast feeding), makes humans the centre of everything not god. Shakespeare"s tragedy"s are based on the rise of one particular individual.
