ENG250Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Calvinism, English Country House
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This course is about the power of language, rhetoric, the art of persuasion. Language doesn"t only just describe a world that"s out there, but also brings a world into being. There"s a relationship between the mind and the world the relationship is constituted by language. People made sense of reality but putting it into language, metaphors, giving it a structure ex: pocahontas she marries john ralph not john smith, she"s 11 years old not 18, she doesn"t actually talk to animals. Mutual consent your identity isn"t determined by decent (who your father was) but by choosing yourself ex: avatar, jake sulley choosing to fall in love and be with the new world woman. Language of gender: the new world tends to be coded female : the land is to be husbanded, ploughed, cultivated, fertilized women are giving an important symbolic status often associated with landscape a virgin land .
