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ندى العالم · 2015- 5- 8

Lecture 2

- The only written language was Latin and people who could read Greek, like Erasmus
- The logic was this: Great empires needed great literature, just like the Romans and the Greeks had.
- the study of classical learning, literature and criticism all emerged with the purpose of giving the emerging European states written and “civilized” languages comparable to those of Rome and Greece.
- Europeans saw poems and plays and books and stories like they were national monuments
- European writers called for the “imitation of the classics.

Imitation doesn’t lead to Originality :

- In Rome, imitation led to frustration and produced a plagiaristic culture. Europeans simply ignored these complications. The desire to produce poetic monuments to go with their political and military power was more important.
- As long as imitation produced “textual monuments” in the form of books, poems and plays, European writers were happy with it.
- Europeans thought that they were imitating the classical cultures of Greece and Rome. In reality they imitated mostly the Romans. Very few Greek texts were available in Europe before the 19th century . European classicism, for example, always claimed to be based on the ideas of Aristotle
- European classicism, for example, always claimed to be based on the ideas of Aristotle, but research shows that they knew very little of Aristotle’s work.
- “A first hand knowledge of Aristotle, even in translation, seem to have been exceptional: Walpole mentions him five times in his letters – usually coupled with Bossu and the ‘Rules’; and Cowper, at the age of fifty-three, had ‘never in his life perused a page of Aristotle.’ The Poetics were mush reverenced, but little read.”
- European writers knew Greek works “only… through the praise of (Roman) Latin authors.”

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ندى العالم أكـاديـمـي مـشـارك الملف الشخصي: رقم العضوية : 92969 تاريخ التسجيل: Tue Nov 2011 المشاركات: 2,283 الـجنــس : أنـثـى عدد الـنقـاط : 4174 مؤشر المستوى: 82 بيانات الطالب: الكلية: جامعة فيصل الدراسة: انتساب التخصص: English language المستوى: خريج جامعي	رد: تجمع النقد الادبي .... !! Lecture 2 - The only written language was Latin and people who could read Greek, like Erasmus - The logic was this: Great empires needed great literature, just like the Romans and the Greeks had. - the study of classical learning, literature and criticism all emerged with the purpose of giving the emerging European states written and “civilized” languages comparable to those of Rome and Greece. - Europeans saw poems and plays and books and stories like they were national monuments - European writers called for the “imitation of the classics. Imitation doesn’t lead to Originality : - In Rome, imitation led to frustration and produced a plagiaristic culture. Europeans simply ignored these complications. The desire to produce poetic monuments to go with their political and military power was more important. - As long as imitation produced “textual monuments” in the form of books, poems and plays, European writers were happy with it. - Europeans thought that they were imitating the classical cultures of Greece and Rome. In reality they imitated mostly the Romans. Very few Greek texts were available in Europe before the 19th century . European classicism, for example, always claimed to be based on the ideas of Aristotle - European classicism, for example, always claimed to be based on the ideas of Aristotle, but research shows that they knew very little of Aristotle’s work. - “A first hand knowledge of Aristotle, even in translation, seem to have been exceptional: Walpole mentions him five times in his letters – usually coupled with Bossu and the ‘Rules’; and Cowper, at the age of fifty-three, had ‘never in his life perused a page of Aristotle.’ The Poetics were mush reverenced, but little read.” - European writers knew Greek works “only… through the praise of (Roman) Latin authors.”