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

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The Correspondence and Literature of Aristotle

Aristotle said plot should be more important than character. The melody, which refers to the dancing in Greek choruses, and then spectacle. You can think of this today to try to understand modern American cinema. And one of the very obvious things in Homer is that, again, the Homeric question, right?

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