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CR Episode 190: Frankenstein, Part I
Madeline Potter joins the panel to begin a three-week reading of Mary Shelley's gothic novel, Frankenstein, with this week's discussion attending to …
2 years, 8 months ago
CR Episode 189: Sonnets of Gerard Manley Hopkins
The panel reads and discusses "God's Grandeur", "Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend", and "The Windhover", attending to their Romantic underpin…
2 years, 8 months ago
CR Episode 188: Moby Dick, Part XIV
In the final episode on Moby Dick, the panel discusses the fulfilment of Fedallah's prophecy and his death, Starbuck's dilemma and despair, the destr…
2 years, 8 months ago
CR Episode 187: Moby Dick, Part XIII
In the penultimate Moby Dick episode, the panel discusses chapters 114–128, focusing on the ship's sails, quadrant, compass, and line; the refashioni…
2 years, 8 months ago
CR Episode 186: Moby Dick, Part XII
The panel discusses the Ahab's representation as a wrathful, inhuman avatar of anti-nature, the hellish nature of the Pequod, the sorcerous conniving…
2 years, 8 months ago
CR Episode 185: Moby Dick, Part XI
The panel discusses chapters 91–101, with attention given to the cross-ship conduct between the Pequod and the Samuel Enderby, and to the psychologic…
2 years, 9 months ago
CR Episode 184: Moby Dick, Part X
The panel discusses chapters 82–90, with attention given to humour as a potential coping mechanism for Ishmael, before considering again the evidence…
2 years, 9 months ago
CR Episode 183: Moby Dick, Part IX
The panel discuss chapters 72–81 and focus particularly upon Ishmael's connexion (literal and figurative) to Queequeg, and the analogous, fated and w…
2 years, 9 months ago
CR Episode 182: Moby Dick, Part VIII
The panel reads some excellent listener questions, and then discusses chapters 60–71, with special attention to the studied ambiguity of the text, Ah…
2 years, 9 months ago
CR Episode 181: Moby Dick, Part VII
The panel discusses chapters 52-59, with special attention given to how the structure of the narrative both anticipates and surpasses post-structural…
2 years, 10 months ago