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ch3 Baroque literature
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- 1Ignatius LoyolaThe Spiritual Exercises, guidebook for spiritual development. leaders of the counter-reformation, jesuits > strict obedience to roman catholicism
- 2René DescartesThe Meditations, explores the nature of his own mind, particularly on what he knows with certainty, "second mediations"> "a thing that thinks", human mind reasoning in various manifestations: doubting, affirming, denying, willing, refusing, understanding, and imagining
- 3Miguel CervantesDon Quixote, first modern western novel, don quixote idealistic knight of the sorrowful countenance, and companion sancho panza. contrasting characters
- 4John DonneThe Flea, dramatic situation, wit and humor, presents unconventional seduction. exhibits baroquecharacterizations of dramatic action and playful exaggeration
- 5Anne BradstreetA letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment, poet aware of earths rotation and season change. she compares her husband to the sun, absence is like the sun moving forward>winter, she is the frozen earth and even her children seem remote to her, she wishes him to be home
- 6Thomas HobbesLeviathan, a book of pilitical philosophy, a defense of secular monarchy, written during puritan commonwealth rule in england. theory of the sovereign state. establishes a contract theory as a justification for political authority
- 7John LockeSecond Treatise of Civil Government, follows framework hobbes devised for dealing with questions of pilitical pwer and authority. government as protection, not just safety and security like hobbes said but for the fruit of laber; incldig private property
- 8John MiltonParadise Lost, the power and beauty is awe-inspiring. element of dramatic tragedy, religious fervor, and poetic zeal.
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- Ayla de Klerk · Oct 2015
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