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The Influence of Virgil and St. Augustine on Brideshead Revisited | Prof. Patrick Callahan

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The Reliability of the Narrator

Aristotle said plot should be more important than character. Plot, character, thought, diction, melody and spectacle are in a hierarchy. You can think of this today to try to understand modern American cinema,. Modern America cinema puts spectacle right up there on the top.

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