ENGD98Y3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Gustav Freytag, Classical Antiquity, Complex Analysis
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For centuries in western europe, only the literature of classical antiquity was thought to have sufficient merit for systematic study. Only works with pronounced and didactic uses were studied. Because of this, many students not innately hostile to literature may well have come to almost despise it or dread studying it. Saw art as uninhibited creative spirit in action - energetic and sensual. Saw criticism as a dry, intellectual operation intended to control and manage art and the method that reduced art to content in order to interpret it. Content: the substance or material dealt with in a speech, literary work, etc. , as distinct from its form or style. Advised critics to pay more attention to form: arrangement and style in literary or musical composition. The number of years of academic/professional critics had been unquestionably harmful to literature and art. In place of hermeneutics we need erotics of art (pp.
