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History of Literature #110 – The Heart of Darkness – Then And Now
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:36:32 — 66.6MB) | Embed Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | RSS | More Jacke and Mike discuss Joseph Conrad’s short novel Heart of Darkness, Francis Ford Coppola’s film Apocalypse Now, and Eleanor Coppola’s documentary Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse. Then Jacke offers some thoughts on the recent events in Charlottesville, compares them with the themes in Conrad, and argues that Continue reading
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The History of Literature #103 – Literature Goes to the Movies
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:30:21 — 62.3MB) | Embed Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | RSS | More The lights dim, the audience hushes in expectation, and the light and magic begin. In some ways (the crowd, the sound) the experience of watching a movie could not be more different from reading a novel – and yet the two have some very important Continue reading
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Sneak Preview: Nietzsche, Francis Ford Coppola, and the Greeks
Thanks to all of you who made last week the biggest one yet in the brief life of The History of Literature podcast. I’m not sure if Burt Reynolds or Aristotle deserves more credit. (Have you ever had the feeling that you’ve written a sentence that no one has ever, ever written? I just had Continue reading
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