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Literary theory: the good, the bad, and the incomprehensible (Part 1)

The Bookening

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The Power of Ideas

With the changing of the world, you got a lot of money coming into England. And as people began to write, they realized what people don't just want plays, people like stories. So that's where you get the birth of more access to theater. You get Gutenberg as well. Easy cheap pamphlets could be written. That's where you begin to get easy access to writing too. People have liked to tell stories all the way back to Beowulf and before that. As soon as you were able to write them down and sell them, it was going to happen. Right. Well, even where we agree, like for example, Martin Luther is the heroes of the people that

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