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Dr Scott Masson
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Dr. Scott J Masson is a Professor of English literature. The videos on this channel are derived from several different sources:
1. His university courses, which cover among other things, Classical literature, Shakespeare, the Bible as Literature, the writing of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, fantasy literature, seventeenth-century literature, and literary theory.
2. His public lectures on topics of general relevance, often on matters that could generally be categorized under Christian apologetics.
3. Television appearances.
4. Radio debates.
5. Paideia Today, a popular form of Classical education looking at the great books of Western Civilization (together with Dr. Bill Friesen)
6. Occasional sermons.
1. His university courses, which cover among other things, Classical literature, Shakespeare, the Bible as Literature, the writing of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, fantasy literature, seventeenth-century literature, and literary theory.
2. His public lectures on topics of general relevance, often on matters that could generally be categorized under Christian apologetics.
3. Television appearances.
4. Radio debates.
5. Paideia Today, a popular form of Classical education looking at the great books of Western Civilization (together with Dr. Bill Friesen)
6. Occasional sermons.
William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Acts 2-5
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William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 2
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George Orwell, 1984, Part 3
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Towards a Christian Literary Theory
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In the following, I conclude tbe course of two semesters by suggesting some outlines of a Christian literary theory. ❤️ If you find my channel helpful, become a channel member: ua-cam.com/users/DrScottMasson ❤️ Subscribe to my Substack: drscottmasson.substack.com/ ❤️ Support my channel and assist me in providing better content: www.paypal.com/donate/?token=FZN9nCjKxWQNUnF_jsASfpjiVyRpj1H_mdGvxm...
Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act One, Scene 1
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Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act One, Scene 1
Shakespeare, The Tempest, Introduction
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Shakespeare, The Tempest, Introduction
The Abolition of Man in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
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The Abolition of Man in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
Shakespeare's Hamlet and The Meaning of his Dramaturge Figures
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Shakespeare's Hamlet and The Meaning of his Dramaturge Figures
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Introduction
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William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Introduction
Joseph Conrad, The Heart of Darkness and the Horror of Efficiency
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Joseph Conrad, The Heart of Darkness and the Horror of Efficiency
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, Part 1
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Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, Part 1
The Scramble for African in Nominally Christian Europe
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The Scramble for African in Nominally Christian Europe
Roland Barthes' The Death of the Author and The Death of God
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Roland Barthes' The Death of the Author and The Death of God
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Sounds like a Psychologist for sure. I'm curious as to the portion of the lecture this was taken from. I feel like I'm missing alot of context lol
ua-cam.com/video/0QsnNzFq9cs/v-deo.htmlsi=SVPx1U2hg3rjd9vU
I’m no psychologist
@@LitProf Ah, apologies. The interdisciplinary influences and academic background make your expressions similar. I was too quick to generalize. Thank you for the context, I'm interested!
Im not sure there is a class behind the camera
There is. From my History of Literary Theory lecture.
Professor, your example of the pendulum between "art for art's sake" and art as a form of social justice was one of the most compelling and sensible explanations with which I've ever come across to wrap my head around the crisis that has been consuming and undermining the humanities in general. Thank you. Your lessons are a treasure trove and a balm to me.
It can’t be at the expense of the Truth.
Damn social scientists. This os imprecise. You could say exactly the same about Nazism. Now please.. use logic, not poltical opinion.
Kind of sounds like he was saying, allbeit in a dressed up way, that only people who took specific academic classes were capable of being moral.
I certainly was not saying that.
Indoctrination
Liberal doesn't work anymore.
I think he's confusing the ideal of a liberal education with the current reality
Liberal education has obviously been a great waste of time, like sociology. .. it has led to generations of people dependent on the system. People too stupid to figure it out.
I’m not sure. It’s just that liberal education needs the immune system of Christianity to keep out the viruses.
It sounds good but it doesnt seem to he coming out that way these days
Not too sure if you have read the book “A thousand heartbeats” by kiera cass
I have not
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If this is true, then please explain why the Liberal educated West is responsible and complicit for most of the illegal wars after WW2.
Because it has not been liberally-educated in any significant numbers for 50 years.
Jordan Peterson is a baffflegab master. Lots of words, little coherent meaning. His nonsensical religious diatribes are a perfect example.
Yeah, no, bud.
@@tyrone1309 How wonderfully eloquent a response. Why do you even bother?
I’ve noticed he has become less and less self-aware in conversation, watched a short clip of his interview with Musk and he kept rudely interrupting Musk from making his points, really kept the convo at a surface level. But JBP’s worst fault is misdirecting people (especially young European men, of course) back into individualism. He’s very aware of what he’s doing in that sense.
@@Vingul A pompous windbag who has somehow found an internet following.
@Vingul his woret fault is claiming expertise in fields where he has none, which is largely everything outside of 2005 psychology
I think you need to define “Liberal Education” very clearly to ascertain if the statement is true or false. Better yet let Jordan Peterson define it. The generalized statement is both true and false.
I think as a humanities professor I know better than a Psychologist.
@@LitProfyour credentials gives your opinion no greater value than any person who experiences the world. I would say the same about JPs opinion.
They claim that we're mere information. Foucalt is one of the precursors of this.
No such thing as "liberal" education. It has been indoctrinated-fascist-intolerant teaching (not education), for quite a while now.
Question: So, when Zeus says "that it is fated for him to return, and that there is a reason for his delay", is the reason for delay a consequence of Odysseus' free choice. Example when he boasts and proclaims his name to the cyclops. Is the reason to humble his boastfullness?
I think that could be argued, but ultimately it is because his actions anger Poseidon, and because the gods are the ultimate dramaturge figures (not men) he is prevented from returning for many years. Remember this account of Polyphemus is a flashback to events of the past, explaining why Odysseus has been delayed 10 years and has returned without any companions.
Um you should watch barbie though
A bit too dilatory
Have you read Wordsworth?
@@LitProf been reading the prelude book 8
@@LitProf i realize that my comment doesn't seem very complimentary but to me you're bringing too much into its explanation without going to specific lines which are slightly unclear or some thematic declaration.
@@LitProf my comment is dilatory too i reckon
What I meant is that Wordsworth’s poetic style is rather dilatory.
Paganism is superior to the christian nonsense.
Totally true.
Dr. Masson, have you ever read "Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age" by Fr. Seraphim Rose? Many of the things you say remind me of Fr. Seraphim.
No I have not.
I saw in the comments in a previous video that you got into a car accident. I hope you get better. You are one of the few Humanities professors that is pushing back against the hard postmodern bent of so many English professors. Before coming across your work I thought liberal arts departments were beyond saving, now I know that there are some in the field working hard to save it from consuming itself.
There aren’t that many, and the academy is trying to insure that there are none going forward. This channel is trying to keep the flame of learning alive by passing knowledge on, in a small way, to the next generation.
I read the (Romanized) Butler translation of the Iliad last year. I just picked up the Rouse translation. I plan on reading all of the works you covered in this podcast. I already read Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight & The Idylls of the King. Thank you for this! I'm 1/3 of the way through the Iliad re-read right now. This translation is much easier. I'll pick up the Lattimore translation later. Along with the Bible I will definitely be reading Homer over and over again. This is wonderful! Thank you so much. Blessings in Christ. 🙏☦️
What are the names of the books you have recommended sir?
One argument I have had against post humanism is "why do we feel guilty when animals don't" The fact that we can have remorse for our enemy beyond that of simple chemical responses is what separates us from nature.
“Speaking of wonderful things” beautiful. That’s what literature should be about.
Reminded me of a reddit comment I came across recently, that was defending an abusing aggressive parent with the argument of “ don’t see anyone as merely good or evil, they’re just a person“ this could go wrong in a lot of scenarios as you can expect. In Arabic there’s the word “بصيرة” [Baseerah] which means vision literally but also implies the idea of the eye of the mind.A person could be blind physically but still have their mind vision and the opposite is correct. I suppose my SUBJECTIVE Islamic education provided me with way more inclusive language that I am greatly grateful for. ^edited to fix some punctuations:)
#HermeneuticsDayOnefacebook
All movements you mentioned are distinctly anti human. You people scare me intensely.
20 fast-moving minutes of Bloom here from 30 years ago this year (in defence of his The Western Canon, 1994). ua-cam.com/video/S9ieF7LVbyI/v-deo.html
Bloom always ‘lamented’ the replacing of the finest elements of the canon (such as Shakespeare himself ultimately) in core curriculum subjects especially, with more morally and culturally-motivated concerns above ones with competing literary merit. He made predictions that over the years came true. He stood up for what he believed to be right, and had millions of people behind him. He shouldered an enormous amount of abuse too. As a writer, very few have ever given more of themselves than he (an easy aspect to criticise). And he defended the ‘Western canon’ purely in terms of literary merit. I never heard him suggest that cultural studies should not exist. I never heard him say that great art does not have cultural or moral intention or merit. I find this kind of reformulation of Bloom, after his death in particular, as being ‘more of a comic than a critic’ to be nothing but an attempted ‘reorganisation’ of his absolutely undestroyable powers. If you want or need to pick up on his own slighting, slight with some (at least amusing?) wither and save us your ill-informed exaggerations please.
I was critical of what I read of Bloom while he was alive, for your information. And that’s while being an admirer and supporter of what he was against. I just don’t regard what he was ‘for’ to be a very good representation of the great books he championed. Oscar Wilde’s “Art for art’s sake” is pretty weak sauce.
Of any central subject, Bloom was never as ill informed. You stand in his shadow
I’m sure your opinion is authoritative in your own mind.
A lecture on Baudrillard, please!
That would be good. I don’t have any
This was great!!!!
The stimulus-response psychology ( Behaviorism) treats human like dogs and other lower forms of animals. It is the " scientific" counterpart of Post-Structuralism and Post-Humanism, which treat the subject ( human beings) as decentered.
Are the values being attributed to the relation of the people of the time and Prometheus actually like that? Was he really bad because fire and subsequently bronze and iron are used among of many things, for people to kill each other?
I don’t really understand the question, but Prometheus stole fire from the gods, gave it to man, and they did bad things with it.
Apologies for being unclear. I guess I can’t condensed all the questions I have but what I wanted to understand about where you depart from is: Is it safe to say Prometheus was seen by the contemporaries of those days as a bad actor or were those values of good and bad forced upon by later people? Or another way of saying it. Are we missing the point of mythical thinking role had on those people? And so another point could be for the question: if we’re engineering our psyche through a different language and a different standpoint, is it safe to say that the story of Prometheus we are repeating, could be a significantly different one from what it was originally conceived? And therefore not really connected to the time line?
Thank you, Sir, for your lectures! I just stumbled over them a few days ago.
I have put a lot up there. The truth sets us free.
@@LitProf Agreed! Where would you recommend one who is new to the study of literature / rediscovering the joys of reading to begin?
@austinrucker3853 Follow my lecture series on Introduction to Literature I & II
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Yes, didactic
But with moral example = paideia
@@LitProf I really like your advocacy, Sir, unlike the usual " hermeneutics of suspicion".
@czarquetzal8344 Thanks
@@LitProf where can I access your writings, Sir. I can perhaps include them in my classes.
@czarquetzal8344 circumstances have kept me from writing as much as I would like. I have published a monograph but my thoughts have developed considerably since then.
Aren't there 5 cantos?
Based on your title, is the goal to create a new and better literary theory or to fall back on an older one(s) which are thmesleves better?
New and better, which will be closer to the premodern ones
No it isnt dumbass
Neo-Aristotelian, doc?
Not really, just find it useful to consider multiple perspectives on the question.
@@LitProf the trend now is to revive older methods. I've heard of New Aestheticism. I don't know if I will include that in my Literary Criticism classes since it's a mere rehash of Beardsley's philosophy.
Grateful for your lectures. Extremely insightful! Appreciate for making it available online
What made you think a passive aggressive question wouldn’t go over well 😂 it is a legit question tho. Unless you just want to write for yourself
Dr I am waiting for your new lectures, I already rewatched some because I noted some things in my notebook and went back to your videos where I heard them the first time. Also great editing