{"id":132,"date":"2017-02-15T11:04:50","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T16:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/?p=132"},"modified":"2017-02-15T11:04:50","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T16:04:50","slug":"shifts-in-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/romancing-the-sonnet\/shifts-in-context\/","title":{"rendered":"Shifts in Context"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m interested in the shift from the pastoral ,to knights and ladies. Although Spenser relies on the same language we&#8217;ve become accustomed to from Shakespeare, such as fairness and darkness to define beauty, and nature and animals to represent sexuality; there seems to be an implied shift. I believe there is a shift from the private interiority, which defines sexuality and the choice to reproduce; to a greater social idea of sexuality and institutional interest in temptation and virute; as represented by the characters in the epic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m interested in the shift from the pastoral ,to knights and ladies. Although Spenser relies on the same language we&#8217;ve become accustomed to from Shakespeare, such as fairness and darkness to define beauty, and nature and animals to represent sexuality; there seems to be an implied shift. I believe there is a shift from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-romancing-the-sonnet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}