Language, Thought, and Style: The Articulated Logos in Victorian Literature with Michael D. Hurley
Description
Dr Michael Hurley, Professor of Literature and Theology at Trinity College in the University of Cambridge, delivers a lecture to students in Ralston College’s inaugural Master’s in the Humanities program on the intertwining of language and thought in the work of three major Victorian authors: Walter Pater, John Henry Newman, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. Prof. Hurley argues that, far from being merely ornamental, in these authors style is constitutive of thought and the difficult pursuit of beauty is inextricable from the pursuit of truth.
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00:00 Introduction to the Lecture and Its Significance
01:40 The Special Context of the Lecture
02:00 Exploring the Relationship Between Language and Thought
04:20 Diving Into the Logos Through Literature
21:00 Examining the Dual Nature of Logos
34:00 Analyzing Texts: A Deep Dive into Aestheticism, Truth, and the Logos
43:40 Concluding Reflections and Open Discussion
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Authors, Ideas, and Works Mentioned in this Episode:
Pythagoras
Anti-Empiricism
St. John the Evangelist
Logos
Heraclitus
Romanticism
David Jones
Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach”
Sophocles
Peloponnesian War
John Henry Newman
William Blake
W.B. Yeats
Margot Collis
G.K. Chesterton
William James, “The Present Dilemma in Philosophy”
Pragmatism
Walter Pater, Studies in the History of the Renaissance
Walter Pater, “Style”
Aestheticism
Oscar Wilde
Harold Bloom
Melos
Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa
Prolepsis
Hypotaxis
Parataxis
Cicero
Virgil
Gerard Manley Hopkins, “God’s Grandeur”; “As Kingfishers Catch Fire”; “Carrion Comfort”
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
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