Where rhyme gets its reason!In a historical survey of English literature, I take a personal and philosophical approach to the major texts of the tradition in order to not only situate the poems, prose, and plays in their own contexts, but also to show their relevance to our own. This show is for the general listener: as a teacher of high school literature and philosophy, I am less than a scholar but more than a buff. I hope to edify and entertain!
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A grown-up discussion of works written for children, with lesson ideas and activities to help you share great works of writing with the kids in your life
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A podcast for leaders, teachers and potential educators looking to teach at home or abroad
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Dr. Lee Moore talks Chinese literature and Chinese culture more broadly.
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A podcast with books, alcohol, and lots of laughter. Daniella and Evelyne are sisters who have always shared book recommendations with each other. Join us while we drink and discuss books in the paranormal romance, urban fantasy, and epic fantasy genres!
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Using her expertise as a seasoned literature professor, Linda M. Morra develops provocative, timely insights about books from Canada and elsewhere to show why stories are relevant for all of us. Hosted and written by Linda Morra, produced by Linda Morra and Marco Timpano. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Global Novel is a podcast that surveys the narratology of world literature and history of translation from antiquity to modernity with a critical lens and aims to make academic education in literature accessible to the world.
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This podcast gives you a daily reading of classic literature, to ease your commute or help you through your English course
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We talk about books, life, and occassionally movies. Reading List: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MrUOV-tSESafVr4wnCjnLwUks0ydV8BVxVOaCg3hk88/edit?usp=drivesdk
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Welcome to the podcast. Sit down, relax, and listen to some literature. Cover art photo provided by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@sharonmccutcheon
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One book, two ladies, so much alcohol.
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We are a podcast, a book club and a happy hour! Join us every month as we dive into a book of our choosing with a tasty drink pairing and food recipe to go with the theme! We will also be covering the history of the author and any movie/media adaptations of the written works we read. Episodes are released at the end of each month with social posts throughout to keep listeners engaged and informed on the literary works we are highlighting. Be sure to follow us on Facebook and Instagram @Liquo ...
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The ForceCast's Jedi Journals is a monthly literature podcast covering the past, present, and future of Star Wars literature.
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Hi readers, welcome to Literary Gupshup, Pune's first podcast on literature and writing. I, Vikas Prakash Joshi, your host and founder, will interview Pune's best known writers, translators and creative personalities to answer the questions you had but were too scared to ask. "How does one improve as a writer?" "How difficult is it to get published?" "How do you market yourself as a writer?" These are just some of the questions that I answer through these podcasts. For guys and girls new to ...
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SUBTEXT is a podcast about the human condition, and what we can learn about it from the greatest inventions of the human imagination: fiction, film, drama, poetry, essays, and criticism. Each episode, philosopher Wes Alwan and poet Erin O’Luanaigh explore life’s big questions by conducting a close reading of a text or film and co-writing an audio essay about it in real time.
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The European Literature Network’s mission is to help promote international literature among a broader audience of England and to support other groups working in this area.
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Interesting conversations with scholars and practitioners in the field of Children's and Young Adult Literature
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Join Festival Podcast host Shani Akilah as she talks to writers Tice Cin, Jacqueline Crooks, Femi Fadugba and Helen Bowell about their work, their inspirations and their festival events.
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A podcast stitched together from the corpses of mystery, noir and gothic literature and cinema https://thefrankenpod.wordpress.com
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Welcome to LitSciPod: The Literature and Science Podcast! We are eager to talk interdisciplinarity, the similarities and differences between humanities and STEM subjects and feature interviews with leading scholars every episode.
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•FBOL is now on Patreon! Subscribe: http://www.patreon.com/fuckboisoflit•The podcast about the most groan-worthy, enraging, and sh*t characters in lit. Join host Emily Edwards and a guest for a weekly "book club" discussion on every book you wanted to destroy in English class, but couldn't. Classic literature of Europe and the Americas– everything from mythology to Victorian epics to the modernists– is hard to get through, and each week, we take on a frequently assigned book to talk about al ...
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This podcast digs into the women's history and literature your teachers never told you about, the stories of women in all their raw, dynamic, adventurous, heroic, and tragic glory. Not only are we drumming up those lost tales of women that have been buried in the dusty old archives all over the world, but we are also retelling tales that previously have been told but we keep in the bawdiness, complexity, controversy, and horror. With an exciting array of knowledgeable and equally snarky gues ...
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Du lernst gerade deutsch? Hast Deutsch in der Schule? Oder möchtest mehr über die deutsche Sprache und Literatur erfahren? Dann bist du hier genau richtig! Wir versuchen das alles unter einen Hut zu bringen: Wir wollen Hilfestellung für Sprachanfänger geben, ihnen unser Land, unsere teilweise echt schrägen Sitten und Traditionen näher bringen. Dennoch gleichzeitig wollen wir auch Content für Fortgeschrittene Sprecher bieten und so bspw. über deutsche Literaturepochen oder Linguistik sprechen ...
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Daniella and Evelyne discuss Cozy Horror as an emerging genre and the general delight that was this book. Oh, and they are complete pop culture nerds in this one.Av Daniella Drake and Evelyne Crowe
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Sins of Omission in “On the Waterfront” (1954) (Part 2)
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Wes & Erin continue their discussion of “On the Waterfront.” For bonus content, become a paid subscriber at Patreon or directly on the Apple Podcasts app. Patreon subscribers also get early access to ad-free regular episodes. This podcast is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Visit AirwaveMedia.com to listen and subscribe to other Airwave s…
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I’ve just seen the documentary Butterfly in the Sky, which is about the public TV show Reading Rainbow. This show, which was hosted by LeVar Burton, helped millions of kids, including me, to understand just how magical it was to take a look in a book. Watch me try not to get choked up as I tell you about my favorite moments in this documentary. Als…
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In today's episode, the podcast is honored to have Ian Johnson, Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, author and commentator who has spent decades living in and writing about China. His most recent book is called Sparks. In it, he follows a handful of China's underground historians who resist the increasingly heavy-handed state by writing and research…
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More than the Dark Lady: Aemilia Lanyer's "Eve's Apology in Defense of Women"
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Send us a Text Message. Today we look at Aemelia Lanyer's pioneering and influential work, "Eve's Apology in Defense of Women" from 1611's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum. Support the Show. Please like, subscribe, and rate the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Google, or wherever you listen. Thank you! Email: classicenglishliterature@gmail.com Follow me on Insta…
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"Learning Gently" about Reconciliation: Andrew Stobo Sniderman & Douglas Sanderson's Valley of the Birdtail
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In this -- the second live episode of Getting Lit With Linda held at the Blue Metropolis Literary Festival and co-sponsored by the Quebec Writers' Federation -- Linda speaks with Andrew Stobo Sniderman and Douglas Sanderson (Amo Binashi, Beaver Clan, of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation) about their book, Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, A White…
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Nutsa Kobakhidze - The ‘Shadow Education’ Industry - Hong Kong
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In this episode I’m talking to Professor Nutsa Kobakhidze. Nutsa is a Director at the Comparative Education Research Centre and Assistant Professor at Hong Kong University. Her areas of expertise include comparative education; privatization of education; globalization and education and large-scale international assessments. I wanted to speak to Nut…
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Emily Hanford is back with Episode 10 of Sold a Story. I wanted to take some time to listen to this one several times and think about it before responding, because it addresses some very serious challenges in the literacy wars. Some people who were confronted by the failings of Balanced Literacy — the highly profitable but thoroughly unscientific s…
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Sins of Omission in “On the Waterfront” (1954) (Part 1)
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Terry Malloy and his fellow longshoremen on the New York docks are witnesses to union corruption under labor boss Johnny Friendly, but won’t testify against him because of his violent intimidation tactics, which ensure that union members remain “D and D”—that is, deaf and dumb—to any illegal activity. When Terry’s collaboration with Friendly result…
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Daniella and Evelyne discuss Asiri and the Amaru by Natalia Hernandez. Topics include choosing to talk to animals as a superpower, relatable characters, and how long someone should wait for a man that went to sea and never came back.Av Daniella Drake and Evelyne Crowe
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Consciousness Bemoaned in Philip Larkin’s “Aubade” (Part 2)
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In the medieval tradition of courtly love, the aubade inverts the serenade. Where one heralds an evening arrival, the other laments a morning departure. In John Dunne’s famous poetic contribution to the genre, he chastises the sun for waking and so separating lovers, but consoles us with the notion that the power of the sun is ultimately subordinat…
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134 – Politics in Anne of Green Gables
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Politics? In a story about a young teen girl from a tiny town in Canada’s smallest province from over 140 years ago? Actually, yes! Politics come up frequently in the classic novel Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, and they have some surprising things to say to modern readers, most importantly that we don’t have to let differences of op…
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Last episode, we discussed Jin Yong and his contributions to Kung Fu literature. This episode we take a look at his final work, the "Sword of the Yue Maiden." We encounter some ancient Chinese punks with swords and how their killing of a little girl's goat ends up percipitating their demise.Av Chinese Literature Podcast
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Consciousness Bemoaned in Philip Larkin’s “Aubade” (Part 1)
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In the medieval tradition of courtly love, the aubade inverts the serenade. Where one heralds an evening arrival, the other laments a morning departure. In John Dunne’s famous poetic contribution to the genre, he chastises the sun for waking and so separating lovers, but consoles us with the notion that the power of the sun is ultimately subordinat…
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We went to the St. George’s Day celebrations in Leicester City to have some fun and learn a little bit about the very ancient story in which St. George slays a dragon to save a city from its really, really bad breath. Hear the original tale and find out why it still has good ideas to teach children today, even if it is very ancient and unfamiliar i…
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Fair Youths and Dark Ladies: Shakespeare's Sonnets
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Send us a Text Message. For our final episode focusing on Shakespeare, we look at his sonnets, arguably the most famous collection of lyric poems in the language. Support the Show. Please like, subscribe, and rate the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Google, or wherever you listen. Thank you! Email: classicenglishliterature@gmail.com Follow me on Instagr…
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Daniella and Evelyne discuss Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade. Topics include using the term “plus size” versus “fat” as descriptors, the attractiveness of dad bods, and actors creating a public persona for interviews and appearances.Av Daniella Drake and Evelyne Crowe
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Bad Beauty: Marie Claire Blais' Mad Shadows
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What does the work of painter Renoir and his paintings of full-bodied women (2.15; 12.34), and tanning beds (2:30) have to do with the Quebecois author Marie Claire Blais (3:15) and La Belle Bette/Mad Shadows (3:20)? Have a listen to today’s episode to find out … In this episode, Linda looks at Blais’s Mad Shadows and its historical importance to Q…
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132 – “Lancelot and Elaine” in Anne of Green Gables
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Tennyson’s poem “Lancelot and Elaine” plays a huge part in the plot of Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Anne and her friends decide to act out the scene where the Lady of Shalott dies and floats downriver to Camelot, where the court of King Arthur mourn her. However, Anne learns the hard way that life is more hilariously imperfect than…
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This podcast, we take a look at the life and times of Jin Yong, along with the genre he came to define, modern kung fu literature. We explore Jin Yong's path to becoming China's best selling writer, putting out more books than JK Rowling. We also look at the January 17th, 1954 kung fu match that inspired him and others to turn kung fu into a phenom…
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131 – “Bingen on the Rhine” in Anne of Green Gables
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Anne of Green Gables features a LOT of poetry. The book is set in the 1880’s, and back then teenagers would carefully select poems to recite to one another in the way that teenagers a few decades ago used to select songs to include in a mix tape. “Bingen on the Rhine” is a beautiful poem by Caroline Norton, a writer and women’s rights campaigner wh…
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Today, we're unfurling the scrolls of one of the most provocative, scandalous, and riveting novels to ever emerge from China’s Ming dynasty: "Jin Ping Mei," or as it's tantalizingly translated, "The Plum in the Golden Vase." This novel is not just a story; it's a journey into the opulent, and often morally ambiguous, world of 16th-century China. We…
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"You taught me language": Shakespeare's The Tempest
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Send us a Text Message. For our (probably) final episode on Shakespeare's plays, we sail through The Tempest, a late romance which has attracted historical and psychoanalytical interpretations, but stands out for many readers as perhaps a play in which a version of Shakespeare himself appears as the protagonist. Audio clip from The Tempest ; 2004 N…
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BOOK DRAMA ALERT! The podcast Sold a Story is back after more than a year. This show did some great reporting on just why so many American kids aren’t learning to read – and which literacy gurus and for-profit publishers are behind the problem. I had to put out a quick response to this episode because I truly believe this show is that important. Th…
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Sarah Cottingham - Ausubel's Meaningful Learning in English - London
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In this episode I’m talking to Sarah Cottingham. Sarah is Associate Dean at Ambition Institute, author of Ausubel's Meaningful Learning In Action, a Professional Development Consultant and former English teacher. I was really eager to speak with Sarah after reading her work about Ausubel’s theory and applying it to recent discussions about how Engl…
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Plucking Women's Lives (and Messages) from the Shorelines of History
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In this episode, Linda and Bryn Turnbull discuss her new historical novel, The Paris Deception - and what it means to represent women's lives historically when there has been inadequate records or representation for them. Linda considers the Indigo Girls and their song about Virginia Woolf - and listening attentively to the voices of women through …
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THIS IS NO LONGER THE CHILDREN’S LITERATURE PODCAST!! BECAUSE READING IS FOR LOSERS!!!! THIS IS NOW THE JUVENILE DELINQUENCY PODCAST!!! LISTEN HERE OR WATCH ON YOUTUBE. OR DON’T. WE DON’T CARE!!! IN THIS EPISODE, FIND OUT THE BEST WAYS TO KICK PEOPLE, HOW TO CRIME BETTER, AND WHY BEING RUDE IS THE BEST!!!!!!!…
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The Felix Culpa: George Herbert's "Easter Wings"
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Send us a Text Message. To mark the Easter holiday, we return to George Herbert, Jacobean poet and priest, and his most famous work, the pattern poem "Easter Wings." Here's a link to an image of the poem: https://clinicalpsychreading.blogspot.com/2016/03/easter-wings-george-herbert-15931633.html Support the Show. Please like, subscribe, and rate th…
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This week is the last in our Sima Qian series, but it is also definitely the best. We look at how Sima Qian lost his testicles while sticking to his principles. We consider the conflict between him and Emperor Wu that percipitated his castration. I also make a big announcement. Here is the Transcript: My name is Lee Moore, and this is the Chinese …
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Evelyne and Daniella discuss Seeking Stars by Leonor Soliz. Topics include the dark side of fame, trust issues, and making learning how to swim sexy.Av Daniella Drake and Evelyne Crowe
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Lucy Maud Montgomery carefully reconstructed the pop culture of the 1880’s when she wrote Anne of Green Gables including the music that teenagers were wild about. While singing is referenced dozens of times in the book, just three songs are actually named, and they were all real songs! Activity: Learn one of Anne’s Favorite Songs Three songs are na…
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127 – Greta Gerwig Isn’t Right for Narnia
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The Chronicles of Narnia are getting the Netflix treatment, and I hope that they’re great. I hope they help an entire new generation of kids discover one of the best book series ever written. But I’m not encouraged by the appointment of Greta Gerwig as the director, because she’s proven twice now that if she’s handed a property made for children, s…
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Drew Perkins - Inquiry Based Learning - Louisville
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In this episode I’m talking with Drew Perkins. Drew is Director of Thought Stretchers Education and host of the ThoughtStretchersEducation Podcast. I wanted to speak to Drew as I continue my exploration of what inquiry looks like in the classroom and particularly how it applies to English. Drew is an active advocate for implementing inquiry in a me…
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Sima Qian - Biography of the Capitalists
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Today, we take a look at Sima Qian's Biography of the Capitalists, chapter 129 in the Records of the Historian. This chapter is Sima Qian's two-millennia old defense of free market capitalism. The chapter is one of the most interesting his oeuvre because Sima Qian was condemned for it by later historians.…
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"Radical Self-Inclusion" - An Interview with Michael V. Smith
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Michael V. Smith is a deeply loving, insightful poet and performer – who uses intimacy and humour as tools to explore pain. In this interview, Linda chats with him about power dynamics and bullying, as they address his poetry collection, Queers Like Me (published by Book*hug in 2023) Here are some of the subjects we covered: on the nature of creati…
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Madame Bovary scandalized and fascinated nineteenth-century France upon its release, and is a groundbreaking exploration of desire, romantic disillusionment, and the mundane realities of rural life. Joining us are Professors Mary Donaldson-Evans who taught at University of Delaware, Jennifer Yee from Oxford University, Rachel Mesch from Boston Univ…
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For our very first episode of Liquor & Literature we will be discussing The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. This iconic feminist book was Plath’s one and only published novel, as Sylvia unfortunately took her own life at the young age of 30. We will also be reading some of Sylvia’s poetry and journal entries while discussing tough topics like mental heal…
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In which Daniella and Evelyne discuss Fated Mates, consent, tails, and when is too much bodily fluid too much?Av Daniella Drake and Evelyne Crowe
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Send us a Text Message. While most people know Shakespeare as a playwright, he saw himself as a poet in the quite traditional sense. Today, we'll look at his two major narrative poems: Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece. clip from "Mrs. Robinson" by Paul Simon; perf. by Simon and Garfunkel. 1968. Taken from We Got Good at It: A Wrecking Crew …
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Today, in the second podcast in the Sima Qian series, we take a look at some of the first literary evidence we have for the Nan Yue, the People of the Southern Yue, the ancestors to modern-day the provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi in China and the people of Vietnam. Sima Qian describes the Han Dynasty's colonial conquest of the Yue in vivid detail…
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Radical Self-Love, with Eloise Marseille
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Eloise Marseille is the first guest for Season 5 - yes, season 5! - and, this time, it's English AND French (starting at the 31.55 mark for the French interview). Marseille is a wonderful Quebecoise graphic novelist, whose candid and humorous book, Naked: The Confessions of a Normal Woman / Confessions d'une Femme Normale examines sexuality and sel…
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Episode 4 - Femi Fadugba on Peckham, metaphysics and learning to write
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In our final episode, Femi Fadugba chats to Shani Akilah about why he set his book in Peckham, and how physics inspired him to learn how to write a book. Music from #Uppbeat: https://uppbeat.io/t/night-drift/the-cleaner License code: 67JGHYEPFEEMHNWFAv Deptford Lit Fest
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Episode 2 - Tice Cin on community and gentleness
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In this episode Tice Cin sits down with Shani Akilah to talk about representing her community and trying to create a space for gentleness, as well as her plans for her next book. Music from #Uppbeat: https://uppbeat.io/t/night-drift/the-cleaner License code: 67JGHYEPFEEMHNWFAv Deptford Lit Fest
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Episode 3 - Helen Bowell on capturing the in-between
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Helen Bowell and Shani Akilah discuss what motivates Helen to run Bi+Lines, and how quantum physics and bisexuality can help us understand in-betweenness in our world. Music from #Uppbeat: https://uppbeat.io/t/night-drift/the-cleaner License code: 67JGHYEPFEEMHNWFAv Deptford Lit Fest
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