Tolkien, Philology, and the Great Books, feat. Colin Chan Redemer | Episode X
New Humanists
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The Caterpillar Spouts a Wing
N o'rion says the great books programmes, if i understand them and the context of tolkins discussion, they would just be a form of lit. By keeping this class around, some group of scholars are forced to wrestle with the question of like, you know, what matters from these periods? Two, how do they fit together? Why did humans start saying this new thing rather than this other thing? So so, for example, why does glory become such a theme by the time you get to virgil? And why does it, as a theme, shift from the theme that it was for homer? Tha? The meaning of glory is clearly different in those two texts
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