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The second function of literary works is cultural identity: common stories tell a people what it means to be Chinese, Roman, biblical, or otherwise unified.
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The second function of literary works is cultural identity: common stories tell a people what it means to be Chinese, Roman, biblical, or otherwise unified.
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"Okay? So, that's the first major function of poets in the society. To legitimize authority. Second function is to create a cultural identity. So,..."
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"We'll read the Bible. Okay? In China you have like the Romans of the Three Kingdoms. And all these literary works were designed to..."
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Greek civilization begins as a reversal: chaos, illiteracy, and poverty force the polis, the alphabet, and Homer, until poetry teaches a new human being how to see, feel, and think.
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