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

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The Confessions of Sebastian and Charles

The book is broken into three parts. The first time this really struck me was maybe my third or fourth read-through. There's a section where Charles Ryder is meeting with the younger sister of Sebastian, his friend and reputed lover. And I wanna show you some explicit callbacks between the confessions and Brideshead are visited,. So I think there's a little more fascinating things that we can do in terms of actually looking at the characters"

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