EP 7: Mythic Themes in the Works of Mann and Joyce
Pathways with Joseph Campbell
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The Reversal Man by Thomas Mann
Mann's light motifs joyce's rhythmic language, were not merely or not only prose. They were a kind of lyric poetic movement. And rhythm is what carries one out of oneself and into deeper consciousness. Young ha s finds himself to be the pedagogical prize fought for by setembrini, the humanist, and naphtha, the radical and radically conflicted jewish jesuit communist. In his tenebrous poem, thomas hardy reminds us that if way to the better, there be it exacts a full look at the worst.
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