In this video I'm talking about everything I enjoyed learning in my first year at uni as a comparative literature student. Enjoy! :-)

Sorry for the messed up audio sync in the middle, I'm not sure how it happened and I saw it too late to fix it.

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Time stamps:

00:00 Intro
02:40 The 12 courses I took
03:38 Support the channel :-)
04:03 Philosophy of language
07:14 How to talk about books I haven’t read, Musil
11:20 Translation: Irony & Double Meaning + Link cards
13:42 Flaubert on Literature + The value of information about books
16:50 How to craft a solid argument
20:04 The concept of TIME in literature
22:34 Being in a system without accepting
24:12 Platon and Aristotle on literature - Truth or Katharsis?
26:06 Learning a language is messy
28:36 Myths as metaphors
30:39 The limits of language
32:10 Novels to navigate individuality
33:52 How to love a book
36:00 Paris as the literary capital
36:46 Making peace with postmodern literature
39:55 Kafka on power
42:33 Thomas Bernhards influence
43:52 The origins of language & the sense of time


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