The student's term for why art can be believed: it is felt as personally true because it resonates.
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resonance
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "This is not a hard question, okay? Yes? It resonates with our experience. And what do we call this?"
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "This is not a hard question, okay? Yes? It resonates with our experience. And what do we call this?"
Key Notes
Jiang says the greatness of the Divine Comedy comes from truth and beauty, which move readers emotionally because the poem resonates with human experience.
Students define art as something that shows and makes one feel an experience rather than merely describing it propositionally.
A student says resonance is what makes a work seem true: people believe it because they can feel themselves inside it.
Another student says art changes a person by naming something previously unnameable inside them, producing recognition and resonance.
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"This is not a hard question, okay? Yes? It resonates with our experience. And what do we call this?"
"Truth and beauty, right? You understand? Like if people read Divine Comedy and they think, oh my God, it made me cry. Oh my..."
"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..."
"consonants between the creator and the observer or the experiencer"
"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..."
"...this really speaks to me and now i know how to resonance right yeah all right so"
"...these are bouncing off the walls and they're creating echo and resonance. And so these words almost like bonds that unite everyone in the..."
"...captured in like a cavern in a cave, so there was resonance. But obviously, you were required, okay? You were required to shout out..."
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