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CR Episode 250: Julius Caesar, Act III
The panel discusses the play's self-awareness, its complexity of character, the presence of character flaws which serve to advance the action of the …
1 year, 4 months ago
CR Episode 249: Julius Caesar, Act II
The panel discusses the the play's contrasts of public and private settings, its parallelism of scenes and characters (especially Calphurnia and Port…
1 year, 4 months ago
CR Episode 248: Julius Caesar, Act I
The panel discusses the first act of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, with attention to Caesar's biographies, the fraught sociopolitical situation in Rom…
1 year, 4 months ago
CR Episode 247: In Parenthesis, Part II
The panel discusses the biographical details of David Jones, and his participation in the Great War, before reading parts 5–7 of In Parenthesis, with…
1 year, 5 months ago
CR Episode 246: In Parenthesis, Part I
The panel reads Parts 1–4 of David Jones' In Parenthesis, with attention to its Modernist and post-Romantic moves, its structure as a prose poem and …
1 year, 5 months ago
CR Episode 245: Wuthering Heights, Part IV
The panel discusses the conclusion of Wuthering Heights, with special attention given to the message of the novel; its place in the genres of Gothic,…
1 year, 5 months ago
CR Episode 244: Wuthering Heights, Part III
Guest expert Dr. Madeline Potter joins the panel to discuss chapters 17–24, with a focus on the cycles of violence and manipulation at Wuthering Heig…
1 year, 5 months ago
CR Episode 243: Wuthering Heights, Part II
The panel discusses chapters 10–16, from Catherine's marriage until her death, and examines Heathcliff's increased severity, the potential innocence …
1 year, 6 months ago
CR Episode 242: Wuthering Heights, Part I
Dr. Madeline Potter joins the panel to discuss the opening chapters of Emily Brontë's only novel, with attention to the influences of the gothic and …
1 year, 6 months ago
CR Episode 241: The Shimmering Form of Robert Penn Warren
The panel discusses the American Poet Laureate Robert Penn Warren—the only person to win the Pulitzer prize both for Poetry and for Fiction—reading t…
1 year, 6 months ago