CGS HU 101 Lecture Notes - Barber Surgeon, Driven Crazy, Metatheatre
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We have to defend literature and art because it teaches us something. When they listen to these stories, they are going to know how to behave. If you would just say what the lessons are, it would be too boring. Sells all sorts of the stuff to buy books. Does not begin the way a philosopher would with facts. Narrative draws you in almost against your will-- justification for literature is that it provides moral lessons. Sydney was fighting and realized he had more armor than his soldiers. Try to embody chivalric idealization -- seagull. Works( chivalric literature)that don quixote was driven crazy by had real influence on people. Cervantes- born in 1547-- father was barber surgeon (at best middle class) Had to flee spain and wound up in italy-- participated in battle of lepanto in. Tries to go back to spain 1575, captured by northern african pirates, and is a slave for 5 years.
