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History of Literature #127 – Gertrude Stein
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:08:37 — 47.4MB) | Embed Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Play | Stitcher | RSS | More Gertrude Stein (1874 – 1946) would be essential to the history of literature had she never written a word – but she did write words, lots of them, and they’ve led to her having an uneasy position in the canon of English literature. Avant-garde… Continue reading
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History of Literature #126 – Animals in Literature (Part One)
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:38 — 39.9MB) | Embed Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Play | Stitcher | RSS | More Inspired by a listener’s heartfelt request, we take a look at an often overlooked subject: animals in literature. In this episode, a precursor to a forthcoming Draft with President Mike (i.e., “The 10 Best Animals in Literature”), Jacke considers the earliest mentions of animals… Continue reading
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History of Literature #125 – Raymond Carver
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:18:35 — 54.2MB) | Embed Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Play | Stitcher | RSS | More Raymond Carver (1938-1988) packed a lot of pain of suffering into his relatively brief life. He also experienced relief and even joy – and along the way, he became one of the most influential short story writers of the American twentieth century. How did… Continue reading
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The History of Literature #124 – James Joyce’s “The Dead” (Part 2)
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:23:20 — 57.5MB) | Embed Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Play | Stitcher | RSS | More In this second part of a two-part episode, we look at the resounding conclusion of James Joyce’s masterpiece “The Dead,” which contains some of the finest prose ever written in the English language. Be warned: this episode, which runs from Gabriel’s speech to the… Continue reading
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The History of Literature #123 – James Joyce’s The Dead (part 1)
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:47 — 41.3MB) | Embed Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Play | Stitcher | RSS | More Happy holidays! In this special two-part episode, host Jacke Wilson takes a look at a story that he can’t stop thinking about: James Joyce’s masterpiece “The Dead.” How does it work? Why is it so good? And why does it resonate so deeply with… Continue reading
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The History of Literature #122 – Young James Joyce
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:02:15 — 43.0MB) | Embed Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Play | Stitcher | RSS | More We often think of James Joyce as a man in his thirties and forties, a monkish, fanatical, eyepatch-wearing author, trapped in his hovel and his own mind, agonizing over his masterpieces, sentence by sentence, word by laborious word. But young James Joyce, the one… Continue reading
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The History of Literature #120 – The Astonishing Emily Dickinson
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:10:59 — 49.0MB) | Embed Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Play | Stitcher | RSS | More Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) might be the most enigmatic poet who ever lived. Her innovative use of meter and punctuation – and above all the liveliness of her ideas, as she crashes together abstract thoughts and concrete images – astonished her nineteenth-century readers and have… Continue reading
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History of Literature #119 – The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:18:39 — 54.3MB) | Embed Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Play | Stitcher | RSS | More Very few works of art have had the cultural and literary impact of J.D. Salinger’s novel The Catcher in the Rye. An immediate success upon its publication in 1951, and popular with teenagers (and adults) ever since, the book has sold over 65 million copies… Continue reading
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History of Literature #118 – Oscar’s Ghost – The Battle for Oscar Wilde’s Legacy (with Laura Lee)
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 56:09 — 38.8MB) | Embed Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Play | Stitcher | RSS | More In Episode 87, we looked at the trials of Oscar Wilde and how they led to his eventual imprisonment and tragically early death. This episode picks up where that one left off, as the incarcerated Wilde writes a manuscript, De Profundis, that eventually leads to… Continue reading
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History of Literature #117 – Machiavelli and The Prince
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:04:54 — 44.8MB) | Embed Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | RSS | More Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) went from being a little-known functionary to one of the most famous and controversial political theorists of all time. His masterpiece Il Principe (or in English, The Prince) has been read, studied, and argued about for 500 years. “A guidebook for statesmen,” said Benito Mussolini.… Continue reading
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