Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and the Project of Literature | Sr. Jane Dominic Laurel, O.P.

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🗓️ 4 February 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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This lecture was given on November 5, 2021 at Auburn University. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Sr. Jane Dominic Laurel is a member of the St. Cecilia Congregation of Dominican Sisters of Nashville, Tennessee. She received her Doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome, Italy. She has been active in her religious community's teaching apostolate for over fifteen years and has assisted with the theological formation of the newest members of her religious congregation. In addition to contributing articles to a number of journals and magazines, including the Vatican newspaper (L'Osservatore Romano), The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, The Linacre Quarterly, and the Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings, Sister has served as editor-in-chief of her Congregation's book, Praying as a Family (also available in Spanish, Chinese, and Arabic versions). With EWTN, she directed a television series of the same title. She has also served as the creator and founding Director of the University of Dallas Studies in Catholic Faith & Culture Program.

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0:00.0	This talk is brought to you by the Tamistic Institute.
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0:11.1	The title of this talk is, what can an adulterist teach us about happiness?
0:18.4	Tolstoy's Anarchuritan and the Project of Literature.
0:21.9	So what I'd like to do is to talk about, actually, in this order,
0:27.0	first of all, starting with kind of the big umbrella, what is the project of literature?
0:31.6	But I want us to look at the project of literature,
0:34.6	and then I want to take a glance at the classical, the medieval, and the modern
0:41.3	way of looking at literature, but we're only going to take little snatches.
0:46.3	And I want to just say right off the bat, I want to talk about my great indebtedness to Dr. Louise Cowan,
0:53.3	who is actually my alma mater is the University of Dallas,
0:55.7	which is a small private county college in Texas. And she is the founding, she in a sense had the
1:01.6	founding vision for the core curriculum of the University of Dallas and how through these works
1:07.8	of literature, but also through studying history and art, etc., you would shape the human person.
1:14.0	So Louise Callan is an alumna of Vanderbilt University. So it was a great honor just at the
1:19.1	beginning of, in the middle of September, to give this presentation also at Vandergult University.
1:24.2	So I am very much indebted to her work, but also to some of the insights that come from other writers.
1:30.3	So thank you to Dr. Callum. Okay. So what's the project of literature in Western civilization? Why does literature even exist?
1:41.3	Would you say that literature is an artifact of culture, that there's culture first,
1:48.0	and then this culture that is created produces works of literature?
1:54.0	Or would you say that literature is actually with shaping the culture, that it's the driving force behind
2:04.6	culture. I think that's what I would like to propose. That word culture is a beautiful word.
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