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Back to Search401 HOL Presents: Melissa Chadburn and The Throwaways (A Storybound Project) | PLUS The First Work of Literature by an African American Author
Episode 401
Jacke takes a look at the first work of literature by an African American author, courtesy of Fictions of America: The Book of Firsts by Uli Baer and…
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400 Anniversary Special! (with Mike Palindrome)
Episode 400
Celebrating 400 episodes of The History of Literature, Jacke and Mike respond to a listener poll and choose the Top 10 Episodes We Must Do in the Fut…
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399 Stephen Crane (with Linda H. Davis)
Episode 399
Stephen Crane (1871-1900) lived fast, died young, and impressed everyone with his prose style and insight into the human condition. While he's best k…
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398 Fernando Pessoa
Episode 398
Questioning the nature of the self is a standard trope in literature and one of the hallmarks of the Modernist movement. But no one pushed this to th…
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397 Plath, Hughes, and the "Other Woman" - Assia Wevill and Her Writings (with Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick and Peter Steinberg)
Episode 397
In 1961, poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath rented their flat to a Canadian poet and his wife, the beautiful, accomplished, and slightly mysterious As…
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396 Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes (with Heather Clark)
Episode 396
Ultimately, the marital relationship of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes was filled with pain and ended in tragedy. At the outset, however, things were ve…
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395 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (A Best of HOL Episode)
Episode 395
Jacke plays a clip from Nabokov discussing his famous novel Lolita, in which the frantic narrator Humbert Humbert recounts his passionate (and illega…
4 years, 2 months ago
394 Freud and Fiction | PLUS An Assia Wevill Preview
Episode 394
What narrative techniques did Freud borrow and employ? What was the effect? And what did it mean for the literary critics who followed? Following his…
4 years, 2 months ago
393 Writers in Odessa, Ukraine's "Black Sea Pearl" | PLUS Margot Reads Boswell
Episode 393
Still recovering from his immersion in Sigmund Freud, Jacke looks instead to one of the world's great literary cities: Odessa. More than 300 writers …
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392 Sigmund Freud
Episode 392
As the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) was one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Although many of his cl…
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