Glossary
The student's term for an attunement to the universe that powerful art or vision can produce.
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resonance
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "I like looking at portraits of people, so at Oxford, all our dining halls will have like all the famous alumni hanging or like..."
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Glossary
The student's term for why art can be believed: it is felt as personally true because it resonates.
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In the Oxford portraits example, Jiang accepts the idea that paintings can transmit the lingering memory or soul-presence of earlier lives, creating awe and resonance across generations.
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A student reframes the altered state as resonance or harmony with the universe produced by a powerful work of art or other mind-opening event.
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Jiang says the greatness of the Divine Comedy comes from truth and beauty, which move readers emotionally because the poem resonates with human experience.
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Students define art as something that shows and makes one feel an experience rather than merely describing it propositionally.
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A student says resonance is what makes a work seem true: people believe it because they can feel themselves inside it.
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Another student says art changes a person by naming something previously unnameable inside them, producing recognition and resonance.
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"I like looking at portraits of people, so at Oxford, all our dining halls will have like all the famous alumni hanging or like..."
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"That's a really good comment, but try to explain how this connection works. There's a connection, you're at Oxford, and all these great people,..."
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"Because the pictures were positioned so high up on the ceilings, and then literally they're like looking down on you while you look up..."
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"Okay. Right, okay, so like awe and wonder, resonance, sure. Resonance. Okay. Um, so Benjamin Franklin, oh sorry, not Benjamin Franklin, Walter Benjamin, would..."
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"...it reminded me of previous visions where it felt like a resonance with the universe, where I could see things in just a different..."
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"This is not a hard question, okay? Yes? It resonates with our experience. And what do we call this?"
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"Truth and beauty, right? You understand? Like if people read Divine Comedy and they think, oh my God, it made me cry. Oh my..."
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"between a encyclopedia definition of the emotion anger and a piece of art titled anger so like the encyclopedia edition tells you it doesn't..."
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"consonants between the creator and the observer or the experiencer"
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"like it's just kind of similar to how the Divine Comedy State as long as because we could resonate with it so we believe..."
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"...this really speaks to me and now i know how to resonance right yeah all right so"
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
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