Hum 101 Vocabularly
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jcomfort2007 on January 15, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Abstract | Expressing a quality apart from an object |
| Aesthetic | The pleasure that beauty inspires us |
| Alienation | A withdrawing or a separation from a person or a person's affections from an object or position or of former attachment |
| Anomie | social instability from a breakdown of standards and values |
| Apollonian | of or relating to the God Apollo |
| Archetype | The original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies |
| Atonal | Marked by avoidance of traditional musical tonality |
| Autonomous | Having the right or self power of government. |
| Blank verse | unryhmed verse |
| Baroque | Of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a style of artistic expression contrasting elements often conveying a sense of drama, movement, and tension |
| Catharsis | The act or result of purging |
| Communism | A form of socialism that abolishes private ownership |
| Cubism | A style of art that stresses abstract structure at the expense of other pictorial elements especially by displaying several aspects of the same object simultaneously and by fragmenting the form of depicted objects |
| Culture Wars | ... |
| Chiaroscuro | A monochrome picture made by using several different shades of the same color |
| Dionysian | Of or relating to the God Dionysus. |
| Deracinated | To uproot: to remove as if pulling |
| Dialectic | Any formal system of reasoning that arrives at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments |
| Dialectical Materialism | The idea that change and development in history results from the conflict between social classes. Economic forces impel human beings to behave in socially determined ways |
| Empiricism | the practice of relying on observation and experiment especially in the natural sciences |
| Epic | A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds |
| Epiphany | a divine manifestation |
| Existentialism | A philosophy based on the idea that people give meaning to their lives through their choices and actions |
| Fresco | A durable method of painting on a wall by using watercolors on wet plaster |
| Fugue | a musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement |
| Gnosticism | A religious orientation advocating gnosis as the way to release a person's spiritual element |
| Gothic | a style of architecture developed in northern France that spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries |
| Impressionism | a school of late 19th century French painters who pictured appearances by strokes of unmixed colors to give the impression of reflected light |
| Hubris | overbearing pride or presumption |
| Ikiru | LIVE ; BECOME ALIVE |
| Humanism | the doctrine emphasizing a person's capacity for self-realization through reason |
| humanities | Studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills) |
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