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Catullus (c. 85-54 BCE) is Rome’s most famous early poet. Departing from epic tradition, Catullus wrote a canon of short works that have been famous since antiquity.
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0:00.0 | Literature and history come. |
0:15.0 | Hello and welcome to literature and history. |
0:20.0 | Episode 49, The Strange Roots of Love. |
0:27.2 | This show is on the Roman poet Catullus, an extremely influential writer of principally shorter poems who lived from about 84 to 54 bc. |
0:34.3 | Long after Catullus passed away, there was a certain kind of plot that began to make its way |
0:39.6 | into European literature. |
0:42.3 | We who study 19th century realism call it the plot of intrusion. |
0:48.6 | It was a plot in which an outsider, usually a hapless and wholesome outsider, for whatever reason, moves and makes his way into a new group of people. |
0:59.0 | This new group of people initially seems friendly and candid. |
1:03.9 | They welcome the outsider into their world. |
1:06.8 | The outsider falls in love and seems to have found a new home and social context. But as the plot thickens, we learn more and more that the |
1:15.9 | new friends that the outsider has made are not so friendly after all, that he has been |
1:21.5 | used and disparaged that an intricate and sinister prehistory of |
1:26.8 | events have preceded his arrival in his new social environment and moreover that |
1:32.2 | he believed he was a butterfly gliding through a friendly meadow but |
1:36.2 | finds that he is an ugly little beetle stuck in a dark forest filled with cobwebs. |
1:48.0 | This is the story of Prince Michigan in Dostayevsky's the idiot. It's the story of much of the early and middle period fiction by one of my favorite authors Henry James, the story of |
1:54.5 | Isabel Archer in the portrait of a lady, Christopher Newman in the American. |
1:59.1 | James took it from Balzac whose novels Old Goryo and Lost Illusions told of young provincial |
2:06.1 | intellectuals who drift into the glitter of Paris, fall in love with sophisticated and beautiful |
2:12.2 | women there, vastly underestimate the complexity and |
2:16.0 | ulterior motives of Parisian high society, and end up disgraced and lonely. |
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