EN 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Erotic Art, Medieval Art, Literal And Figurative Language
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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.
