COMPLIT 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Christopher Hitchens, Comparative Literature

• School: U of M
• Department: Comparative Literature
• Course: COMPLIT 100
• Professor: Santiago Colas

Document Summary

I heard: the background noises of the music. The difference ways people express the way of being a human. Comparative literature in culture in a global perspective. Study the forms to understand the ways of being humans in their society and how it compares to ourselves. The study of things make or do that they don"t need to live but do need to live happily. The work we do to understand human expression is itself a form of human expression reflexivity. Subject and object (understand the object objectively) Ways of seeing a range of human activities and ideas that we group together as global sports culture. Figures of speech to make our speech more persuasive, interesting, impactful. Convey social attitudes and shape social relations. Sports is a part of society, not an activity. In ben carrington and david l. andrew"s article, sport as escape, struggle, and art, Christopher hitchens discusses the structures and results of sports on society.