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Jiang says Plato's route to the Monad is elitist because it requires mathematical and geometric knowledge that only a few can access.
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Elitism
Jiang says Plato's route to the Monad is elitist because it requires mathematical and geometric knowledge that only a few can access.
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Joyce's difficulty, in Jiang's reading, comes from musical style and dense allusion: readers must have read and experienced what Joyce did in order to understand him.
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Modern literature, represented by Ulysses, is described as elitist, self-referential, allusive, stream-of-consciousness writing that breaks from older literature's effort to empower people to seek truth.
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Jiang treats Joyce's Ulysses as a founding modernist work that imitates and tries to surpass Dante while turning literature toward style, music, allusion, and elite interpretation.
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Modern literature is described as a break from Homeric democratic truth-seeking into an elite, arrogant club organized around self-referential stream of consciousness.
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"I want to confirm that Plato or Danteng, because Plato said that to learn knowledge and Danteng said to pursue love, so it gives..."
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"So the Monad in the conception of everything is the same, okay? It is a source of everything. Plato and Dante are proposing different..."
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"Right? So Plato's like, you have to do calculus. Plato's like, and Dante's like, that's just ridiculous. That's the most ridiculous thing in the..."
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"I can explain to you Dante. I can explain to you Homer and Shakespeare. But I struggle with James Joyce. And there are two..."
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"So let's look at the differences. Modern literature, as represented by Ulysses, it is elitist. It's self -referential. Okay? It just has a lot..."
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"So arguably, the first great modern art movement. The first artist is James Joyce, who in 1922 published Ulysses. James Joyce was Irish. He..."
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"Okay. The first reason is he was a singer. So you have to read what he writes as though it's music. Okay. It's meant..."
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"And there are many who tell me, yeah, James Joyce is hard. But if you just spend the time to go over what he's..."
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"It's self -referential. Okay. It just has a lot of allusions and references. But you actually don't know what the meaning is. Like what..."
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