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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...now we've lost it and the result is what we call modern literature which is complete another crap by the way okay and we..."
Modern literature is described as a break from Homeric democratic truth-seeking into an elite, arrogant club organized around self-referential stream of consciousness.
"...truth to the people through epic poetry. Okay. So starting with modern literature, we have this abrupt change in the nature of literature. Before..."
"...now we've lost it and the result is what we call modern literature which is complete another crap by the way okay and we..."
"...more accessible than James Joyce. So let's look at the differences. Modern literature, as represented by Ulysses, it is elitist."
"...again, it's a radical departure from traditional literature. So let's compare modern literature with Dostoevsky. Remember, before we discussed Dostoevsky. Okay. For Dostoevsky, the..."
A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Homer as the big bang of Greek civilization: empire turns writing into control, the polis turns speech into civic training, and the Iliad turns war into the...
Freud is not introduced as a neutral founder of psychology.
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