Introduction to English Literature - Renaissance Literature: An Introduction (1/2)

#literature #booktok #philosophy #literature #literarytheory #shakespeare Professor Timothy H. Wilson Department of English, University of Ottawa An Introduction to the Renaissance. The lecture presents on overview of the various historical drivers contributing to the birth of the Renaissance, or the early modern revolution in thinking. Finally, the lecture focuses on the Renaissance understanding of art, as exemplified by Sidney's Defence of Poetry, as a response to Plato's critique of poetry. Powerpoint slides for this lecture: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fGYtpV2KOah9_cJ2F_x2E1GywWkGaF2H/view?usp=drive_link My Web site: https://sites.google.com/site/untergehenproject/sample6?authuser=0 0:00 - Introduction 3:30 - Renaissance and Modernity 5:50 - Petrarch 9:00 - Renaissance Artistic Achievements: Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Shakespeare 13:22 - Linear Perspective 15:50 - Fall of Constantinople 16:39 - Gutenberg Bible 19:00 - Golden Age in Florence 20:47 - Voyages of "Discovery" 21:37 - End of Feudal Society 22:56 - Protestant Reformation 28:28 - Copernican Revolution Related lectures: English Literature: An Introduction -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aQraZkgWkE&list=PLVnV4NOfHN4V1QrovanmcllJz84_kKPrl&index=1&pp=gAQBiAQBsAgC Medieval Literature: An Introduction -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6J9ZTXb8P4&list=PLVnV4NOfHN4V1QrovanmcllJz84_kKPrl&index=22&pp=gAQBiAQBsAgC Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: An Introduction -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrE-Bs4FOyg&list=PLVnV4NOfHN4V1QrovanmcllJz84_kKPrl&index=25&t=5s&pp=gAQBiAQB0gcJCU0KAYcqIYzvsAgC Medieval Literary Theory: Fourfold Interpretation -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J2CRuS0ubc&list=PLVnV4NOfHN4VJwHJUp2Eg8_kAIkh9vwIW&index=13&t=125s&pp=gAQBiAQBsAgC How to Read a Poem: On Sidney's Astrophil and Stella #5 -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfSxI72wPO4&list=PLVnV4NOfHN4V1QrovanmcllJz84_kKPrl&index=11&pp=gAQBiAQBsAgC Thomas More's Utopia: An Introduction -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-shLosJNd4s&list=PLVnV4NOfHN4V8PplEBK4xBUCbTxT47JQs&index=22&pp=gAQBiAQBsAgC Shakespeare: An Introduction -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djve4OUsZZg&list=PLVnV4NOfHN4V8PplEBK4xBUCbTxT47JQs&index=13&t=27s&pp=gAQBiAQBsAgC