18 April 2006
Flags
I think the national flags on some of the wiki pages need to go. The modern flag of communist China has little to do with the China of Li Po, and although the modern Union Jack (1801) is close to the original Union flag of England (1606), it's not the same, and even that flag wouldn't be representative of pre-Jacobean British literature (e.g., Chaucer). My point is that flags change over time, whereas the linguistic and cultural contexts of the literature we've been reading are part of a larger, more unshakeable canon.
Take this as an opportunity to find some appropriate substitutes. If the 1801 Union Jack doesn't adequately represent Milton and his predecessors, what does?
Take this as an opportunity to find some appropriate substitutes. If the 1801 Union Jack doesn't adequately represent Milton and his predecessors, what does?
05 April 2006
Rabelais Page
Even though we're not reading Rabelais, I've made a page for him on the Wiki so you can get some sense of why he's such an important Renaissance counterpoint to the kinds of classicism we've been talking about. He's also a great deal of fun.
Dr. Smith
