The Bible and Western Culture - Joyce: From Religion to Art

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[@kingjamesjoyce23]

This is one of the best book reviews I’ve ever listened to

[@tracywilliamsliterature]

Bravo! I fell for Joyce in 1990 and never recovered... watching this talk made me realize what it is about Augustine's Confessions that is currently giving me a similar experience to the passion I felt all those years ago when I first met Portrait and Ulysses... I remember the question of alienation in Joyce being the thing I was asked by a professor at King's Coillege London and on the strength of my answer I was accepted there to study literature... I cannot remember what i said but my profound admiration for Joyce is still with me and watching this tonight gave me a great sense of joy! Your work is just brilliant! Thank you from Wales, UK.

[@PhaedrusPollux]

Professor Sugrue. I am hoping that at some point you would categorise your work into playlists. It would allow continuous playthrough without needing to return to the streaming device. I would fall asleep each night with the play list running and I am sure it would give your videos additional views. Also, I am grateful to you for sharing your work. Thank you, your lectures are my favourite, and each night I am excited to listen always.

[@dr.michaelsugrue]

Thank you very much for the support and suggestion. This is a great idea!

[@nightoftheworld]

You can also save your favorites in your own playlist

[@Nero-ox5tw]

Just make your own playlist on youtube.

[@PhaedrusPollux]

@@Nero-ox5tw Great idea!

[@shanegolden2611]

The book review to end all book reviews. Incredible reading of one of my favourite books

[@TomHuckACAB]

This is truly one of the baddest bad ass channels on all of youtube.

[@vogelofficial]

Listening to this after the Nietzsche lecture is just perfection. The tie-in of art as salvation.

[@adriancodrea2684]

Love Michael, one of a kind, just like his pronunciation of Clongowes 😊

[@jonbaker2102]

this is perhaps your greatest lecture- a manifesto to all of us to be true to ourselves-bravo!

[@jonathanmarty1354]

We need a lecture on the Wake, Prof. Sugrue!

[@celestialscripture]

This channel is an absolute treasure trove. What a gift!

[@BCC288]

1. i wish every teacher was like this - you make me excited about learning 2. i want to read portrait of the artist now

[@thattimestampguy]

0:22 James Joyce, 1900s Adopts Philosophical Asceticism 0:50 _Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man_ 1:40 Adolescence to Adulthood 2:18 Busy Text, Careful writer 3:26 Satire on Catholicism, Ireland 🇮🇪 4:20 Irish Dialect, sing song quality 5:43 Nietzsche position 6:23 Stephen Deadalus Collapse of Religion Rise of Art 7:09 5 Sections 7:46 Baby Talk Age 3 to Age 7 9:36 Microcosm Uncorrupted Sensation Sight smell colors feel 11:46 Klongaus Boarding School Rigorous Education - Confusion - Unhappiness 12:47 - Alienation - Sickness, Dilerium - Anxiety 14:03 Going home at Christmas Time, eating with the adults - Religion and Politics 15:20 Family tension 15:59 - A Beating by Father Dolan 17:35 What do I do? The fellows treat him like one of the boys; Satisfied 18:23 Further alienated 19:00 Learning Poetry Religion-Art Pain-Beauty 20:08 Alienation Father is incompetent Alienation from Society 21:08 Less Prestige, Less Rigor Where are my friends? 22:10 Belvedere Poetic Beating with a Cain 23:46 Sells off Estate for money 💰 Location Unknown 25:14 Hard identifying bonding with men

[@aaronknauer4642]

Yo Michael! I didn’t know who the hell you were before - but Im sure glad I found you! Thanks Professor!

[@jameswiblishauser9745]

I find Joyce difficult, but professor Segrue makes me want to read him again.

[@BaronM]

Loved this.

[@kevinrombouts3027]

Incredible lecture. I felt pulled into Stephen Deadless' world and life.

[@seeketng4309]

Thank you, Prof Sugrue. I learned a lot from this lecture. Will try reading A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man again. I stopped very early in the book the previous time I read it because I found it difficult then.

[@conormccloskey2033]

I found my second reading of Portrait to be far more enjoyable than my first. Re-reading it means you can spend less time understanding what is going on and more time appreciating the brilliance of it

[@ryans3001]

Thank you!

[@MrMarktrumble]

Thank you

[@georgemelitsis2607]

Thank you.

[@kaidoloveboat1591]

I'm very interested in what you said about Alex being inspired by Heron, and I would love to hear you speak more about it. Do you have any resources you could recommend to further research this connection?

[@kilokalas2773]

The last 15 minutes were captivating

[@schang8964]

终于找到理由去都柏林海边看看了

[@cheri238]

James Joyce. 💖💙😊😈😋🥰🎨🌌 Liberation through art.

[@FugaciuDexter]

Such a wonderful video, you explain all the things that a normal reader might get out of reading him. I do have a question, though: I didn't get the joke about the purple pages from St. Augustin - what's that referring to? Thanks for everything!

[@davidfost5777]

I'm always looking for new interesting lectures on Psychology/Philosophy, please let me know if you guys have any recommendations, would be highly appreciated

[@pearz420]

I always meant to read Joyce because I knew I would relate to him in a meaningful way, but I had no idea...

[@bummtristan5067]

Did Michael Surgue ever do lecture about Bertold Brecht or Alfred Döblin?

[@alliekerr4780]

I was wondering if anyone could explain the joke found in the middle of this lecture “ we could steal some of these pages from Saint Augustine if they weren’t so purple” Wondering what it means for something to be “purple” … Very impressed with this lecture- my husband watches them and I have no particular interest or intellect for the material and STILL find it very easy to follow and interesting.

[@WhostosayWhostoknow]

Actually, "purple" in literary criticism refers to overly-fanciful and unwieldy writing. Often, writers will gesture at some airy profundity, yet need to pad out their descriptions with excessively flowery language and "labyrinthine" sentences to approximate it. Many people consider Joyce's writing style to be self-indulgent, unlike that of Augustine, whose style (I guess) was more direct. The two writers apparently refer to the same spiritual blueprint, but mature differently, possibly because Augustine modeled his language after the Bible, whereas Joyce's character developed his language more in service of aesthetic, secular beauty. The really funny part is that for Joyce, language itself becomes the highest beauty, so his writing ends up so echo-laden and convoluted, readers get excluded from his most intense thoughts.

[@Ionic457]

epic

[@skeleton1765]

Can I get an explanation of “if they weren’t so purple” joke at 26:00 That went over my head.

[@asimplenameichose151]

'Purple' prose (in criticism) refers to overly- or needlessly-elaborate wordiness (cf. common examples in Kerouac's 'On the Road'); excess and maybe self-indulgence.

[@skeleton1765]

@@asimplenameichose151 Thank you so much.

[@cinnamon4605]

Kubrick name is often mentioned in Intellectual revelation.

[@ranasarkar3929]

♥️♥️

[@b-dolan449]

The school is pronounced “clon-goes”

[@drbonesshow1]

I can't believe what I'm believing.

[@optimusprimum]

Finished the series.

[@dandogzbutt1518]

27:20

[@Andrew_Cotton]

Come up Kinch! Come up yiu fearful Jesuit!

[@sionnach1311]

It's known as Hiberno-English

[@abdelrahmanmustafa8937]

Joyce isn't at all related to Christianity or the Bible?

[@mappingtheshit]

Is he TV Evangelist?

[@dr.michaelsugrue]

Dad said, Along with stand up comics, they are among the last Americans who know how to talk. Most Americans now speak baby talk and emoji.

[@mappingtheshit]

@@dr.michaelsugrue Just like Stephen at age of 3

[@paulinesterry7810]

@@dr.michaelsugrue Priceless.

[@eagleswings5693]

Well I’m here to say that he was wrong to leave the creator for the creature.

[@schang8964]

43:32 that is cold, that is loveless, that is ni chan? What does ni chan means, help.

[@dr.michaelsugrue]

Nietzschean

[@scythermantis]

Why does he say "Western" and talk about St. Augustine? He was African, not European.

[@joemcdermott1213]

It wouldn't matter if that's the case. His career and its impact were in the West, almost exclusively. He's a key part of Western tradition. It doesn't seem particularly valuable to turn his origin or race into a focus of who he is in most historical contexts. I think it would be the same in reverse. If there was someone from Europe who had a career in Asia or Africa or something, and was very influential in that regions history rather than Europe, it would be appropriate to consider him part of that regions tradition and history, rather than Europe's.

[@user-hu3iy9gz5j]

Something can be part of western intellectual history without being western in origin. Christianity did not arise in Europe, yet its influence on European culture can’t be understated

[@christinemartin63]

To "bond" with women? Joyce?? If that's a euphemism for "exploit," then yeah ... sure. (One of the most over-rated of writers. Too much has been made of Joyce.)

[@grumblekin]

Joyce, to me, is the most insufferable of all Western authors and I cannot get through anything he wrote…but I can watch these lectures and Dr.Sugrue makes the material interesting. Now I don’t need to read those horrible words!

[@mr1234567899111]

Thank you

[@davidfost5777]

I'm always looking for new interesting lectures on Psychology/Philosophy, please let me know if you guys have any recommendations, would be highly appreciated

[@buzhidao5065]

Been a year, but if you’re still interested, I just watched a video by a channel called Uncovering Reality about consciousness. Was at least good enough that I wanted to come back to let you know!

[@toyoudosen6958]

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