I enjoy very much listening to you talk about the academic journey you are on and I cannot help comparing your experiences, at the beginning of your life, with mine over 50 years ago, and feeling very envious! When I studied languages and literature, the courses were so much more pedestrian and limited I think. I remember leaving university, having completed essays about individual works, but feeling there was so much I needed to know, so much I needed to be SHOWN, just so much I was missing about literature, philosophy, the world. “It” all seemed out there waiting but out of my reach. The difference I am finding from listening to you talk about courses is in the breakdown into themes, and the wide ranging input from culture, philosophy and the consequent explosion of ideas that are available to you, that open those doors that I could not find (or didn’t know existed) at your age. I vaguely remember a year on 19th century literature. Now, nothing wrong with that as such but there seemed to be no broadening out, no connections made with other areas of study. It was an old-fashioned approach that gave me a solid grounding in literary criticism but did not develop me as a person or as an enquiring mind. At least, that is how I remember it! My 18 year old self is envious of the personal choice you have in your courses and the wide ranging ideas, writers and philosophies you are introduced to. I admire your channel and content as well as your evident mastery of several languages . It is wonderful to see you make the best of the opportunities you are being offered. All the best.
Thanks for sharing your experience. I can understand your frustration because I feel it too from time to time. The courses seem to be overly specific and it's frustrating to not get "the whole picture". I talked about this a lot with a friend and we concluded that maybe literature is just too vast to ever really get an overview. And that you learn by those specific examples how to engage with single works, you learn what is possible before you're left out to swim in the endless ocean of books by yourself.Also, I definitely always go the extra mile to choose & find the most philosophical courses. So I'm not sure it would be accurate to say that they're all like that. And I think it helps that I'm by no means 18 anymore & I really try to extract what I can from the courses and connect them with my own experience. But it's wild how different "studying literature" can look like. From country to country, from time period to time period, from person to person... Really fascinating & no fixed mold at all. I'm happy you resonate with the content & it's really interesting to get so many peoples different experiences to compare to mine. Thanks for being here & thanks for the kind words! All the best to you too!
THANK YOU for bringing us along these courses - so outside my own world and I'm loving it! I'd love to follow along what you learn and hear your reflections about these courses and your time in Paris. Maybe you've already shared this, but would love to learn more about how you were able to learn French on this level and your tips for reaching this level. I'd love to be able to read french novel in their original languge. 🤩
All the courses sound fascinating! I'm pleased you are dipping your toes into the world of cinema, & look forward to hearing which films your teacher will be discussing.
Great video! I so much wish to study literature so I might take some elective courses when the time comes, for now I will be enjoying your videos. I am studying media now and the course about machines is very similar to what I'm doing. Also, the film course sounds amazing, I just had a small lecture on the French new wave and watched "Cleo from 5 to 7" by Agnes Varda. Some found it boring but I loved it personally and would recommend, it really captures Paris in a lovely light
So interesting to hear how French tertiary education strives to blur clear distinctions and in the process, to muddy up categories ☑ I tried looking up an English translation of Bernard Werner's "Encyclopedia of Relative and Absolute Knowledge." For some strange reason the search engines produce a Russian text? So weird😕 That course you mentioned at 8:55, should be called Code Switching. Just being real Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks English well, but with a heavy Austrian accent. Melania Trump's version of English has a heavy Slovenian tilt. There's something there! Brings up possibly the limits of assimilation. No matter your valiant attempts at mastering a language, accent as a linguistic phenomenon marks you out as "other" as opposed to native. This makes for an uncomfortable conversation amid growing anti-immigrant sentiments across the globe🤔
@@joelharris4399 I am French but I have many accents! I started in Mauritius where I went to school. There, the other children at school told me I had a French accent! I did my baccalaureate in Paris where I had a Mauritian accent, in England I have a French accent and my English is judged as really good, in France I have a slight English accent and my French is judged as really good! In Hong Kong, however, nobody commented on my accent as everyone had an accent, how relaxing! In Paris, when I was studying English lit and language at the Sorbonne nouvelle, a friend of mine used to alternate her accent from Cockney to public school with utter perfection and, strangely enough, her appearance would modulate as she spoke. Her audience grew from performance to performance until we became used to it so the show ended.
This Austrian channel (a RUclips recommendation) caught my attention because of the image of the novel THE STRANGER by Albert Camus. I am a polyglot and a writer (a Peruvian novelist published in Spain ) and since you study literature in France, it would be interesting if you could talk about the literary aesthetics (literary analysis) of Camus (I read him in Spanish and French) and also Peter Hanke and Elfriede Jelinek (Austrian writers that I read in Spanish and whose style is very avant-garde thanks to the recommendation of some German language students). PS: It is just a recommendation. Greetings.
Am I randomly first? Okay, algorithm. I’ve seen a few of your videos and have quite enjoyed the deep dive into literary passion and study. I think I also remember one time you were wearing an Agalloch shirt; I don’t know why but I love when I find smart people who also like heavy music. I had a similar film-class experience living in New York. I took classes specific to NYC cinema and it gave me a greater appreciation for both the medium and the place. The AI/Frankenstein connection is interesting (also one of my top favorite books ever). Giving rise to an adaptive entity which will probably evolve beyond our control. The idea that Suffering = Poetry seems true in western context, but less true in eastern context. Not that I’m super versed (heh) but my exposure to Asian poets has been such a different vibe - Rumi, Hafiz, Li Po, Tagore. I’m a pretty depressive person who defaults more to the likes of Eluard and Rimbaud, so I find it a nice change of pace. Is the article about Dante and Borges available online? Thanks for sharing your intellectual adventures so people like me can briefly live vicariously!
Hi, thanks for writing all that. If you like the heavy music X philosophy/literature I hope you know essentialsalts. I love his channel and how he just randomly uploads a video of gigs with his death metal (I think?) band :D It's grand. Yes, the article is available online. I think it's actually a phd thesis from 2001 by Humberto Nùnez-Faraco. I just googled "Dante and borges on love" and it was the second result (Pro Quest publishing) Thanks again for being here. I appreciate it 🙏🏻
I find the idea of 'Imaginary Knowledge' wonderfully intriguing! I'm looking forward to learning more about this subject in your upcoming videos 🧡. The book by Bernard Werber also looks very interesting, unfortunately I can't find an English or Dutch translation of it. My French reading skills are not sufficiënt to read it in its native language, haha 😉.
Nine courses in one semester? That is a lot to juggle, physically and mentally! Where I'm from people do like 3 or maybe 4 "papers" in a semester. These must have light workload and requirements, but it is a lot of different ideas to take in.
Yeah it's definitely a full schedule but I want to study full time to actually finish in 3 years. And that's how many I have to do to get the credits that allow me to be on track with that. But the good thing - it looks like I don't have to write papers. So I can do it. It's "just" presentations in front of the class & end exams. The other good thing is I get a stipent & the only work I do besides studying is this youtube channel which deepens my understanding of the courses because that's mostly what I talk about. Thanks for the concern - I'm gonna be alright. :-)
@@strange.lucidity Ah, interesting. I was also thinking that nine courses seemed crazy but your explanation makes sense. I'm in Australia and a full-time 3-year university workload is 4 courses (units) a semester, but each course has several major assignments as well as weekly assessed work. I find it fascinating that universities all over the world structure courses and workloads differently. I've learned something new!
I wish I could see the recommended readings for the Imaginary Knowledge, the Poetics of the Suffering Body, Spirit of the Machines and Marginality, Creativity and Criminality. They are subjects I am pretty much interested in, but extremely niche 😅
Thank you for the wonderful video. I'm interested in reading the "New Encyclopedia of Relative and Absolute Knowledge" in English, as I only speak English and Arabic. I've searched for it online but haven't found it. If you have any suggestions for obtaining it, I would greatly appreciate your help.
I would really like to read Metamophosis in its original language. I tried reading it in English and I feel like the humour got lost in translation. I think the intended vibe is just deadpan humour the whole through, but I didn't get that in the English version.
@@LittleMew133 You are totally right there! I think that if you study Comparative literature, you have to know several languages well enough to be able to read the studied texts in their original. Good look with « die Verwandlung »!
Should you want to read Kafka’s metamorphosis in a bilingual version, IBooks gives it to you in the doppeltest version under the double title “Die Verwandlung/ The Metamorphosis”. Enjoy it! It’s well worth it.
I don't think there is deadpan humour at the beginning of “die Verwandlung” . Indeed the main character's transformations are so sudden that he has difficulties coming to terms with them and their impact on his everyday life. Disarray and panick are his immediate feelings.
Do you happen to have an Instagram account? I’d love to see the places you go and the objects you take pictures of, as I find your personality really interesting.
Chère Lucidité, étrange ou pas, c’est dommage que vous n’aimiez pas votre cours de langue française! Que vous enseigne-t’il donc qui vous fait ne pas l’aimer? Plus on étudie une langue, plus on découvre sa complexité et ses ambiguïtés. La langue s’enseigne avec sa culture, on ne peut pas dissocier les deux. Il se peut donc que votre professeur vous fasse trop faire d’exercices sans poésie et sans chanson! Qu’étudiez-vous en langue française en ce moment?
It's not that I don't like the language and don't want to learn it, I just prefer learning a language "on the side", while listening to an interesting class or reading a book, talking to people on the street. Again, it's fine and I didn't mean it in a bad way, there's just something about sitting in a language course class that really doesn't speak to me.
@@strange.lucidity I see your point too well! It's really the fault of old fashioned language teaching. There are so many ways to make language teaching interesting. Néanmoins, il me semble qu'il faut par exemple vous forcer à dire et écrire des choses simples dans la langue dont vous voulez lire les écrits. D'autre part, essayez de ne pas être trop ambitieuse quand vous choisissez des textes. Si vous cherchez à lire Proust par exemple, lisez des extraits que vous trouverez dans certaines collections comme les classiques Bordas ou les petits classiques Larousse. Proust est difficile à lire même pour la plupart des Français du fait de ses longues phrases très sophistiquées. Lisez plutôt des ouvrages courts comme ceux de Marguerite Duras, par exemple “Moderato Cantabile” ou encore de Saint-Exupéry, par exemple “Vol de nuit” , “Le blé en herbe” de Colette etc, les ouvrages de Marcel Pagnol, le magnifique “Grand Meaulnes” d'Alain-Fournier. Bonne route!
The Frenchmen were the best? The most prescient? Others say that English is the best language for literature and the Americans were the culmination of it?
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I just discovered your channel and as a fellow literature student - I’m obsessed!!! 🩷 Do you also have other social media where we could follow you?
I enjoy very much listening to you talk about the academic journey you are on and I cannot help comparing your experiences, at the beginning of your life, with mine over 50 years ago, and feeling very envious! When I studied languages and literature, the courses were so much more pedestrian and limited I think. I remember leaving university, having completed essays about individual works, but feeling there was so much I needed to know, so much I needed to be SHOWN, just so much I was missing about literature, philosophy, the world. “It” all seemed out there waiting but out of my reach. The difference I am finding from listening to you talk about courses is in the breakdown into themes, and the wide ranging input from culture, philosophy and the consequent explosion of ideas that are available to you, that open those doors that I could not find (or didn’t know existed) at your age. I vaguely remember a year on 19th century literature. Now, nothing wrong with that as such but there seemed to be no broadening out, no connections made with other areas of study. It was an old-fashioned approach that gave me a solid grounding in literary criticism but did not develop me as a person or as an enquiring mind. At least, that is how I remember it! My 18 year old self is envious of the personal choice you have in your courses and the wide ranging ideas, writers and philosophies you are introduced to. I admire your channel and content as well as your evident mastery of several languages . It is wonderful to see you make the best of the opportunities you are being offered. All the best.
Thanks for sharing your experience. I can understand your frustration because I feel it too from time to time. The courses seem to be overly specific and it's frustrating to not get "the whole picture". I talked about this a lot with a friend and we concluded that maybe literature is just too vast to ever really get an overview. And that you learn by those specific examples how to engage with single works, you learn what is possible before you're left out to swim in the endless ocean of books by yourself.Also, I definitely always go the extra mile to choose & find the most philosophical courses. So I'm not sure it would be accurate to say that they're all like that. And I think it helps that I'm by no means 18 anymore & I really try to extract what I can from the courses and connect them with my own experience. But it's wild how different "studying literature" can look like. From country to country, from time period to time period, from person to person... Really fascinating & no fixed mold at all. I'm happy you resonate with the content & it's really interesting to get so many peoples different experiences to compare to mine. Thanks for being here & thanks for the kind words! All the best to you too!
Oh my gosh, you made me think about quiting everything and encouraged me to start studying literature in Paris!
You make me passionate about literature, every time I watch one of your videos
THANK YOU for bringing us along these courses - so outside my own world and I'm loving it! I'd love to follow along what you learn and hear your reflections about these courses and your time in Paris. Maybe you've already shared this, but would love to learn more about how you were able to learn French on this level and your tips for reaching this level. I'd love to be able to read french novel in their original languge. 🤩
All the courses sound fascinating! I'm pleased you are dipping your toes into the world of cinema, & look forward to hearing which films your teacher will be discussing.
Great video! I so much wish to study literature so I might take some elective courses when the time comes, for now I will be enjoying your videos. I am studying media now and the course about machines is very similar to what I'm doing. Also, the film course sounds amazing, I just had a small lecture on the French new wave and watched "Cleo from 5 to 7" by Agnes Varda. Some found it boring but I loved it personally and would recommend, it really captures Paris in a lovely light
OMG I'd be so excited to hear your thoughts comparing Dante and Borges's ideas on love!
Request you to also create a set of videos on Imaginary Knowledge. Its such an intriguing idea and almost unknown outside academia 🙏
Yes, sounds like a fascinating course and I'd love to hear more about this course and which books you'll be reading!😊
No, it's not.
Another phenomenal video, Maria!
Really wonderful set of courses - so French and appealing :-).
I agree :D
Totally recommend reading the Mersault investigation - heavy rebuttal to the stranger!
So looking forward to your Paris era!
me too!!
Aw thanks! I'm actually right in the middle of it already. Also, I'm sometimes watching your videos :D
@@strange.lucidity Aww, that's so nice to hear!
So interesting to hear how French tertiary education strives to blur clear distinctions and in the process, to muddy up categories ☑
I tried looking up an English translation of Bernard Werner's "Encyclopedia of Relative and Absolute Knowledge." For some strange reason the search engines produce a Russian text? So weird😕
That course you mentioned at 8:55, should be called Code Switching. Just being real Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks English well, but with a heavy Austrian accent. Melania Trump's version of English has a heavy Slovenian tilt. There's something there! Brings up possibly the limits of assimilation. No matter your valiant attempts at mastering a language, accent as a linguistic phenomenon marks you out as "other" as opposed to native. This makes for an uncomfortable conversation amid growing anti-immigrant sentiments across the globe🤔
@@joelharris4399 I am French but I have many accents! I started in Mauritius where I went to school. There, the other children at school told me I had a French accent! I did my baccalaureate in Paris where I had a Mauritian accent, in England I have a French accent and my English is judged as really good, in France I have a slight English accent and my French is judged as really good! In Hong Kong, however, nobody commented on my accent as everyone had an accent, how relaxing!
In Paris, when I was studying English lit and language at the Sorbonne nouvelle, a friend of mine used to alternate her accent from Cockney to public school with utter perfection and, strangely enough, her appearance would modulate as she spoke. Her audience grew from performance to performance until we became used to it so the show ended.
@@martinehatswell9431 Thanks for sharing🤗 Truly. My experience is shaped by both North American and Caribbean contexts. Very different
This Austrian channel (a RUclips recommendation) caught my attention because of the image of the novel THE STRANGER by Albert Camus. I am a polyglot and a writer (a Peruvian novelist published in Spain ) and since you study literature in France, it would be interesting if you could talk about the literary aesthetics (literary analysis) of Camus (I read him in Spanish and French) and also Peter Hanke and Elfriede Jelinek (Austrian writers that I read in Spanish and whose style is very avant-garde thanks to the recommendation of some German language students). PS: It is just a recommendation. Greetings.
Am I randomly first? Okay, algorithm.
I’ve seen a few of your videos and have quite enjoyed the deep dive into literary passion and study. I think I also remember one time you were wearing an Agalloch shirt; I don’t know why but I love when I find smart people who also like heavy music.
I had a similar film-class experience living in New York. I took classes specific to NYC cinema and it gave me a greater appreciation for both the medium and the place. The AI/Frankenstein connection is interesting (also one of my top favorite books ever). Giving rise to an adaptive entity which will probably evolve beyond our control.
The idea that Suffering = Poetry seems true in western context, but less true in eastern context. Not that I’m super versed (heh) but my exposure to Asian poets has been such a different vibe - Rumi, Hafiz, Li Po, Tagore. I’m a pretty depressive person who defaults more to the likes of Eluard and Rimbaud, so I find it a nice change of pace.
Is the article about Dante and Borges available online?
Thanks for sharing your intellectual adventures so people like me can briefly live vicariously!
Hi, thanks for writing all that. If you like the heavy music X philosophy/literature I hope you know essentialsalts. I love his channel and how he just randomly uploads a video of gigs with his death metal (I think?) band :D It's grand.
Yes, the article is available online. I think it's actually a phd thesis from 2001 by Humberto Nùnez-Faraco. I just googled "Dante and borges on love" and it was the second result (Pro Quest publishing)
Thanks again for being here. I appreciate it 🙏🏻
@@strange.lucidity I think I made that comment at 4 am lol so it’s a ramble, but kind of you to reply. I will check out essentialsalts!
Thank God people are learning useful topics in university in 2024. We need that right now.
I'm so glad to hear that. I'm taking you as an example.
I find the idea of 'Imaginary Knowledge' wonderfully intriguing! I'm looking forward to learning more about this subject in your upcoming videos 🧡. The book by Bernard Werber also looks very interesting, unfortunately I can't find an English or Dutch translation of it. My French reading skills are not sufficiënt to read it in its native language, haha 😉.
Nine courses in one semester? That is a lot to juggle, physically and mentally! Where I'm from people do like 3 or maybe 4 "papers" in a semester. These must have light workload and requirements, but it is a lot of different ideas to take in.
Yeah it's definitely a full schedule but I want to study full time to actually finish in 3 years. And that's how many I have to do to get the credits that allow me to be on track with that. But the good thing - it looks like I don't have to write papers. So I can do it. It's "just" presentations in front of the class & end exams. The other good thing is I get a stipent & the only work I do besides studying is this youtube channel which deepens my understanding of the courses because that's mostly what I talk about. Thanks for the concern - I'm gonna be alright. :-)
@@strange.lucidity Ah, interesting. I was also thinking that nine courses seemed crazy but your explanation makes sense. I'm in Australia and a full-time 3-year university workload is 4 courses (units) a semester, but each course has several major assignments as well as weekly assessed work. I find it fascinating that universities all over the world structure courses and workloads differently. I've learned something new!
Will you see with eye serene the very pulse of the machine ?
I wish I could see the recommended readings for the Imaginary Knowledge, the Poetics of the Suffering Body, Spirit of the Machines and Marginality, Creativity and Criminality. They are subjects I am pretty much interested in, but extremely niche 😅
So soothing 👍 from 🇮🇳
Thank you for the wonderful video. I'm interested in reading the "New Encyclopedia of Relative and Absolute Knowledge" in English, as I only speak English and Arabic. I've searched for it online but haven't found it. If you have any suggestions for obtaining it, I would greatly appreciate your help.
amazing
Is that book about relative & absolute knowledge easy to understand? Sometimes, I read philosophy and I'm like "huh?".
I'll report back on it in a video after reading it. I don't know yet :D
That's a lot for one semester..
All the best
Pourriez-vous nous indiquer les noms de professeurs? En effet, j’aimerais suivre certains de ces cours en ligne.
I would really like to read Metamophosis in its original language. I tried reading it in English and I feel like the humour got lost in translation. I think the intended vibe is just deadpan humour the whole through, but I didn't get that in the English version.
@@LittleMew133 You are totally right there! I think that if you study Comparative literature, you have to know several languages well enough to be able to read the studied texts in their original. Good look with « die Verwandlung »!
Should you want to read Kafka’s metamorphosis in a bilingual version, IBooks gives it to you in the doppeltest version under the double title “Die Verwandlung/ The Metamorphosis”. Enjoy it! It’s well worth it.
I don't think there is deadpan humour at the beginning of “die Verwandlung” . Indeed the main character's transformations are so sudden that he has difficulties coming to terms with them and their impact on his everyday life. Disarray and panick are his immediate feelings.
Do you happen to have an Instagram account? I’d love to see the places you go and the objects you take pictures of, as I find your personality really interesting.
what happened to the proust course?
It's not happening this semester :( So I won't be able to take it.
@@strange.lucidity oh bummer! i feel like you could spend an entire year studying in search of lost time..
That is a lot of subjects for a semester. You are going to be a busy little bee.
Knowledge is fiction... wild stuff, mind boggling! Sounds like it could be something like subversive?!
Chère Lucidité, étrange ou pas, c’est dommage que vous n’aimiez pas votre cours de langue française! Que vous enseigne-t’il donc qui vous fait ne pas l’aimer? Plus on étudie une langue, plus on découvre sa complexité et ses ambiguïtés. La langue s’enseigne avec sa culture, on ne peut pas dissocier les deux. Il se peut donc que votre professeur vous fasse trop faire d’exercices sans poésie et sans chanson! Qu’étudiez-vous en langue française en ce moment?
It's not that I don't like the language and don't want to learn it, I just prefer learning a language "on the side", while listening to an interesting class or reading a book, talking to people on the street. Again, it's fine and I didn't mean it in a bad way, there's just something about sitting in a language course class that really doesn't speak to me.
@@strange.lucidity I see your point too well! It's really the fault of old fashioned language teaching. There are so many ways to make language teaching interesting. Néanmoins, il me semble qu'il faut par exemple vous forcer à dire et écrire des choses simples dans la langue dont vous voulez lire les écrits.
D'autre part, essayez de ne pas être trop ambitieuse quand vous choisissez des textes. Si vous cherchez à lire Proust par exemple, lisez des extraits que vous trouverez dans certaines collections comme les classiques Bordas ou les petits classiques Larousse. Proust est difficile à lire même pour la plupart des Français du fait de ses longues phrases très sophistiquées. Lisez plutôt des ouvrages courts comme ceux de Marguerite Duras, par exemple “Moderato Cantabile” ou encore de Saint-Exupéry, par exemple “Vol de nuit” , “Le blé en herbe” de Colette etc, les ouvrages de Marcel Pagnol, le magnifique “Grand Meaulnes” d'Alain-Fournier. Bonne route!
The Frenchmen were the best? The most prescient? Others say that English is the best language for literature and the Americans were the culmination of it?
I just discovered your channel and as a fellow literature student - I’m obsessed!!! 🩷 Do you also have other social media where we could follow you?