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Jiang's category for inward, elitist, self-referential literature organized around self-discovery and self-mastery.
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modern literature
Jiang's category for inward, elitist, self-referential literature organized around self-discovery and self-mastery.
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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 contrasts Dostoevsky with modern literature: Dostoevsky's psychology responds to external events and requires surrender to others, while modern literature promises self-discovery, self-mastery, and self-redemption.
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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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"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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"...And it's very, and again, it's a radical departure from traditional literature. So let's compare modern literature with Dostoevsky. Remember, before we discuss Dostoevsky...."
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"...truth to the people through epic poetry. Okay. So starting with modern literature, we have this abrupt change in the nature of literature. Before..."
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"...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..."
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"...more accessible than James Joyce. So let's look at the differences. Modern literature, as represented by Ulysses, it is elitist."
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"...and it's very, and again, it's a radical departure from traditional literature. So let's compare modern literature with Dostoevsky. Remember, before we discussed Dostoevsky...."
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Modernism begins as a religious problem before it becomes psychology, literature, art, social media, and depression.
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Freud is not introduced as a neutral founder of psychology.
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