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CR Episode 180: Moby Dick, Part VI
The panel discusses chapters 43-51, examining the presence of Romanticism in the text and character of Ishmael, and highlighting how the text's rapid…
2 years, 10 months ago
CR Episode 179: Moby Dick, Part V
The panel discusses chapters 35-42, exploring Melville's purpose in adopting a multigeneric style, and paying special attention to Ahab's motivations…
2 years, 10 months ago
CR Episode 178: Moby Dick, Part IV
The panel discusses chapters 26-34, with a particular focus on the effect of genre considerations in framing the novel, its shift into Shakespearean …
2 years, 10 months ago
CR Episode 177: Moby Dick, Part III
The panel discusses chapters 16-25, with a particular attention to characterisation beyond Ishmael and Queequeg--particularly that of Peleg, Bildad, …
2 years, 10 months ago
CR Episode 176: Moby Dick, Part II
The panel reads chapters 5-15, with a special focus on the description and narrative use of religious symbolism and devotional practice, contrasting …
2 years, 11 months ago
CR Episode 175: Moby Dick, Part I
The panel reads the prologues and first four chapters of Moby Dick, provides an overview of the publication history of the text, and discusses the ch…
2 years, 11 months ago
CR Episode 174: Shakespeare’s Lucrece, Part III
The panel concludes with an examination of Lucrece's central role as a Shakespearean protagonist, addressing her attitude towards the conflict betwee…
2 years, 11 months ago
CR Episode 173: Shakespeare’s Lucrece, Part II
The panel reads the second third of Shakespeare's Lucrece, with particular attention to the paradoxical presentation of light and darkness, and to th…
2 years, 11 months ago
CR Episode 172: Shakespeare’s Lucrece, Part I
In the first of a three-part series on Shakespeare's Lucrece, the panel explores the Roman history and sources for the poem, before reading and exami…
3 years ago
CR Episode 171: The Poetry of Sir Walter Raleigh
The panel reads three poems by the courtier, soldier, privateer, and poet, Sir Walter Raleigh, examining their formal (and informal) qualities, and d…
3 years ago