Aristotle – Jacke Wilson

July 13, 2022

The History of Literature #421 – HOL Goes to the Movies (A Best-of Episode with Brian Price, Meg Tilly, and Mike Palindrome)

Summertime! The season for watching blockbuster movies in arctic conditions, heart-pounding suspense flicks that heat the blood, and cool-breeze dramas that stir the soul. In this best-of episode, Jacke celebrates the summer with portions of conversations with three previous guests, Brian Price, Meg Tilly, and Mike Palindrome. Additional listening suggestions: 135 Aristotle Goes to the Continue reading

Arts, Authors, books, Fiction, history of literature

Alfred Hitchcock, Aristotle, brian price, hollywood, Literature, meg tilly, movies

August 20, 2018

The History of Literature #155 – Plato

http://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADL3663385565.mp3 “The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition,” said Alfred North Whitehead, “is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.” We’ve all heard the name of Plato and his famous mentor Socrates, and most of us have encountered the dialogues, a literary-philosophical form he essentially invented. We know the Continue reading

Arts, Authors, books, history of literature, Writing

Aristotle, crito, plato, republic, Socrates, theory of forms

April 7, 2018

The History of Literature #135 – Aristotle Goes to the Movies (with Brian Price)

http://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADL2517676848.mp3 Hollywood screenwriter and professional script doctor Brian Price, author of Classical Storytelling and Contemporary Screenwriting: Aristotle and the Modern Scriptwriter, found everything he needed to know about screenwriting in a 2,500-year-old text, Aristotle’s Poetics. Brian and Jacke talk about how Aristotle’s study of Greek tragedy has unlocked the buried secrets of storytelling – and how those Continue reading

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Aristotle, black panther, casablanca, films, how to write a screenplay, movies, screenplays

December 7, 2015

History of Literature Episode 6 – Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides

Author Jacke Wilson examines the works of three great Greek tragedians, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides – and attempts to solve the mystery of why Friedrich Nietzsche admired two of the three and despised the other. Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 55:28 — 38.4MB) Subscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS | More Subscribe Continue reading

Arts, history of literature, Podcast

aeschylus, Aristotle, art, culture, dionysian, euripides, greek tragedy, Literature, nietzsche, society, sophocles, wagner

December 6, 2015

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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November 5, 2015

The Restless Mind Show 4 – Signs and Symbols

Jacke and Gar take a break from the history of literature to look at the meaning of signs and symbols. Can we forgive the swastika? Should we? Plus: Gar reveals his three ideal dinner guests. Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 33:39 — 23.4MB) Subscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS | More Subscribe Options Continue reading

Arts, Authors, Podcast, restless mind show

Aristotle, confederate flag, evil, forgiveness, historical memory, hitler, hobbes, plato, redemption, Shakespeare, signs, swastika, symbols

July 21, 2014

A History of Jacke in 100 Objects #19: My Roommate’s Books

My roommate arrived before I did; I met his stuff before I met him. Meeting his stuff first was fine with me, because the truth was that I was a little afraid of him. Wilfred Carter Boiteaux III. From New Orleans. Or maybe of New Orleans? I had not known anyone with a name like Continue reading

Authors, Fiction, The History of Jacke, Writing

akkadian, Aristotle, college, Fiction, hume, Kant, loeb classical library, memoir, nietzsche, philosophy, plato, roommate, Short story, University of Chicago

November 23, 2013

The Writer’s Mind: Sharing the Creative Experience

I’ve been following the many discussions recently of why we like long novels. And while those are interesting and fun, I think they’ve missed something important about the length of the creative work and its impact on the reader. My moment of truth was handed to me by that fabulous liar, Edgar Allan Poe. I’ll Continue reading

Authors, Fiction, Novellas, Writing

Aristotle, Authors, Edgar Allan Poe, George Saunders, Ian McEwan, Philosophy of Composition, reading, Short story, Writing