Didacticism
Didacticismis a philosophy that emphasises instructional and informative qualities inliterature,art,and design.[1][2][3]In art, design, architecture, and landscape, didacticism is a conceptual approach that is driven by the urgent need to explain.[3]
Overview
[edit]The term has its origin in theAncient Greekword διδακτικός (didaktikos), "pertaining to instruction",[4]and signified learning in a fascinating and intriguing manner.[5][6]
Didactic art was meant both to entertain and to instruct. Didactic plays, for instance, were intended to convey a moral theme or other rich truth to the audience.[7][8]During the Middle Age, the Roman Catholic chants like theVeni Creator Spiritus,as well as the Eucharistic hymns like theAdoro te devoteandPange linguaare used for fixing within prayers the truths of the Roman Catholic faith to preserve them and pass down from a generation to another. In theRenaissance,the church began asyncretismbetween pagan and the Christian didactic art, a syncretism that reflected its dominating temporal power and recalled the controversy among the pagan and Christian aristocracy in the fourth century.[9]An example of didactic writing isAlexander Pope'sAn Essay on Criticism(1711), which offers a range of advice about critics and criticism. An example of didactism in music is the chantUt queant laxis,which was used byGuido of Arezzoto teachsolfegesyllables.
Around the 19th century the termdidacticcame to also be used as a criticism for work that appears to be overburdened with instructive, factual, or otherwise educational information, to the detriment of the enjoyment of the reader (a meaning that was quite foreign to Greek thought).Edgar Allan Poecalled didacticism the worst of "heresies" in his essayThe Poetic Principle.
Examples
[edit]Some instances of didactic literature include:[citation needed]
- Instructions of Kagemni,byKagemni I(?) (2613–2589 BC?)
- Instruction of Hardjedef,by Hardjedef (between 25th century BC and 24th century BC)
- The Maxims of Ptahhotep,byPtahhotep(around 2375–2350 BC)
- Works and Days,byHesiod(c. 700 BC)
- On Horsemanship,byXenophon(c. 350 BC)
- The Panchatantra,byVishnu Sarma(c. 300 BC)
- De rerum natura,byLucretius(c. 50 BC)
- Georgics,byVirgil(c. 30 BC)
- Ars PoeticabyHorace(c. 18 BC)
- Ars Amatoria,byOvid(1 BC)
- Thirukkural,byThiruvalluvar(between 2nd century BC and 5th century AD)
- Remedia Amoris,byOvid(AD 1)
- Medicamina Faciei Femineae,byOvid(between 1 BC and AD 8)
- AstronomicabyMarcus Manilius(c. AD 14)
- Epistulae morales ad Lucilium,bySeneca the Younger,(c. 65 AD)
- Cynegetica,byNemesianus(3rd century AD)
- TheJataka Tales(Buddhistliterature, 5th century AD)
- Philosophus AutodidactusbyIbn Tufail(12th century)
- Theologus AutodidactusbyIbn al-Nafis(1270s)
- The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian(1480s)
- ThePuruṣaparīkṣābyVidyapati
- The Pilgrim's Progress,byJohn Bunyan(1678)
- Rasselas,bySamuel Johnson(1759)
- The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes(anonymous, 1765)
- The Adventures of Nicholas Experience,byIgnacy Krasicki(1776)
- Critical and Miscellaneous Essays,byThomas Carlyle(1838–1839)[10]
- Critical and Historical Essays,byThomas Babington Macaulay(1843)[10]
- The Water-Babies,byCharles Kingsley(1863)
- Fors Clavigera,byJohn Ruskin(1871–1884)[10]
- If-,byRudyard Kipling(1910)
- Siddhartha,byHermann Hesse(1952)
- Sophie's World,byJostein Gaarder(1991)
- TheWizard of Gramaryeseries byChristopher Stasheff(1968–2004)
- Children's Books in England: Five Centuries of Social Life.byF. J. Harvey Darton[11]
Some examples of research that investigates didacticism in art, design, architecture and landscape:
- "Du Didactisme en Architecture / On Didacticism in Architecture". (2019). In C. Cucuzzella, C. I. Hammond, S. Goubran, & C. Lalonde (Eds.), Cahiers de Recherche du LEAP (Vol. 3). Potential Architecture Books.[3]
- Cucuzzella, C., Chupin, J.-P., & Hammond, C. (2020). "Eco-didacticism in art and architecture: Design as means for raising awareness". Cities, 102, 102728.[12]
Some examples of art, design, architecture and landscape projects that present eco-lessons.[13]
See also
[edit]- Art for art's sake
- Autodidactism
- John Cassell,19th century publisher of educational magazines and books
- Children's literature
- Sebayt
- Wisdom literature
References
[edit]- ^What’s Wrong with Didacticism?Archived2019-06-18 at theWayback MachineAcademia.edu, Retrieved 30 Oct 2013
- ^Didactic Literature or حخArchived2012-11-17 at theWayback Machine,University of Houston–Clear Lake,Retrieved 30 Oct 2013
- ^abcDu potentiel du didactisme en architecture.Cucuzzella, Carmela, 1962–, Hammond, Cynthia Imogen. Montréal (Quebec), Canada. 2019.ISBN978-1-988962-03-0.OCLC1082357029.
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- ^"didactic | Origin and meaning of didactic by Online Etymology Dictionary".www.etymonline.com.Retrieved2021-05-18.
- ^"Didacticism – Examples and Definition of Didacticism".Literary Devices.2013-09-15.Retrieved2021-05-18.
- ^Didacticism in Morality Plays,Retrieved 30 Oct 2013
- ^Glossary of Literary TermsArchived2013-11-03 at theWayback Machine,The University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Retrieved 30 Oct 2013
- ^Cynthia White(October 1, 2010).The Emergence of Christianity: Classical Traditions in Contemporary Perspective.G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press. p. 176.ISBN9780800697471.OCLC1056616571.RetrievedJuly 1,2021.
- ^abcNordquist, Richard. (2021, February 16). Didacticism: Definition and Examples in Literature. Retrieved fromhttps://www.thoughtco.com/didactic-writing-term-1690452
- ^DidacticismArchived2015-05-04 at theWayback Machine,Boston College Libraries, Retrieved 30 Oct 2013
- ^Cucuzzella, Carmela; Chupin, Jean-Pierre; Hammond, Cynthia (July 2020). "Eco-didacticism in art and architecture: Design as means for raising awareness".Cities.102:102728.doi:10.1016/j.cities.2020.102728.S2CID218962466.
- ^"Eco-didactic Turn in Art and Design in the Public Realm – IDEAS-BE".Retrieved2020-04-22.
Further reading
[edit]- Glaisyer, Natasha and Sara Pennell.Didactic Literature in England, 1500–1800: Expertise Reconstructed.Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2003.
- Journal of Thought.United States, Journal of Thought Fund, 2002.
- Wittig, Claudia.Prodesse et Delectare: Case Studies on Didactic Literature in the European Middle Ages / Fallstudien Zur Didaktischen Literatur Des Europäischen Mittelalters.Germany, De Gruyter, 2019.
External links
[edit]The dictionary definition ofdidacticismat Wiktionary
- Gosse, Edmund William(1911). .Encyclopædia Britannica.Vol. 8 (11th ed.). pp. 202–204.