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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
