Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJeremy Black, "Smollett's Britain" (St. Augustine's Press, 2022)
Episode 1345
In Smollett's Britain (St. Augustine's Press, 2022), acclaimed British historian Jeremy Black examines the layers of craft and insight in Tobias Smol…
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Robert T. Tally, Jr., "For a Ruthless Critique of All That Exists: Literature in an Age of Capitalist Realism" (Zero Books, 2022)
Episode 407
Robert T. Tally, Jr.'s book For a Ruthless Critique of All That Exists: Literature in an Age of Capitalist Realism (Zero Books, 2022) takes as its po…
2 years, 10 months ago
Marsha Gordon, "Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott" (U California Press, 2023)
Episode 1344
Credited with popularizing the label "ex-wife" in 1929, Ursula Parrott wrote provocatively about divorcées, career women, single mothers, work-life b…
2 years, 10 months ago
Book Chat with Gwennaël Gaffric
Episode 16
Hello everyone. This is Ti-han 張迪涵_, one of the hosts of our Taiwan On-Air podcast series, sponsored by the European Association of Taiwan Studies an…
2 years, 10 months ago
Shana Rosenblatt Mauer, "Mordecai Richler's Imperfect Search for Moral Values" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
Episode 425
From his debut as a novelist, Mordecai Richler challenged, provoked, enraged, entertained, and surprised readers. Criticizing him for his portrayals …
2 years, 10 months ago
Michael Ruse, "Darwinism as Religion: What Literature Tells Us about Evolution" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Episode 351
The Darwinian Revolution--the change in thinking sparked by Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, which argued that all organisms including huma…
2 years, 10 months ago
Of Peninsulas and Archipelagos: The Landscape of Translation in Southeast Asia
Episode 193
What does a map of Southeast Asia as a pegasus have to do with translation and Southeast Asia? How can we think of translation as anything other than…
2 years, 10 months ago
Jeff Deutsch, "In Praise of Good Bookstores" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 97
Do we need bookstores in the twenty-first century? If so, what makes a good one? In Praise of Good Bookstores (Princeton UP, 2022), Jeff Deutsch--the…
2 years, 10 months ago
Shakespeare's "King Lear" Part 3: The Language
Season 1 Episode 32
In Part 3, Professor Palfrey offers close-readings of some of the play’s most significant scenes. You’ll witness the king and the beggar in the heart…
2 years, 10 months ago
Christine Schott, "Canon Fanfiction: Reading, Writing, and Teaching with Adaptations of Premodern and Early Modern Literature" (Medieval Institute Publications, 2023)
Episode 237
Several scholarly fields investigate the reuse of source texts, most relevantly adaptation studies and fanfiction studies. The limitation of these tw…
2 years, 10 months ago