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Critical Readings examines key literary texts using close reading and critical analysis, and explains these approaches in discussion. Listeners will learn about the texts themselves and about how to approach a text for critical analysis.

  1. hace 2 días

    CR Episode 325: The Once and Future King, Part I

    The panel reads the first seven chapters of The Sword in the Stone, with attention given to the modern and medieval aspects of the setting, White's own narratorial voice, the differing metaphors and parallels of characterisation, and the original sources.

    1 h 10 min

  2. 25 may

    CR Episode 324: The Poetry of Ralph Waldo Emerson

    The panel reads three poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson—"Uriel", "Ode Inscribed to William H. Channing", and "The Snow Storm"—with special attention to the role of the poet-philosopher's transcendentalist, romanticist, and abolitionist views in the poems.

    59 min

  3. 18 may

    CR Episode 323: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act V

    The panel discusses the concluding act and scene of the play, with special attention to the linguistic wordplay and the Shakespearean critique of players, audiences, and critics alike in the both the play-within-a-play device and in Puck's epilogue.

    1 h 9 min

  4. 11 may

    CR Episode 322: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act IV

    The panel discusses the resolution of the love quadrangle, as Puck puts right the enchantments in order to bring Oberon's original plan to fruition, before turning to consider Titania's relationship to her husband in the wake of her own enchantment.

    53 min

  5. 4 may

    CR Episode 321: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act III

    The panel discusses the deployment of additional fairy magic, with the transformation of Bottom and the confounding of Helena, and the confusion that results when both Bottom and Helena misbelieve that they are subject of their friends' pranks.

    1 h 10 min

  6. 27 abr

    CR Episode 320: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act II

    The panel discusses the second act and the moment in the play when the plans of the characters begin to go astray due to mischance, with special attention to the tension between Titania and Oberon, and the expanding geographical knowledge of the time.

    1 h 1 min

  7. 20 abr

    CR Episode 319: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act I

    The panel discusses the setting and form of the play, before discussing the first act and its complicated love quadrangle, with attention given to love and the threat of violence, and the characters' creation of overlapping plans that threaten to collide.

    52 min

  8. 13 abr

    CR Episode 318: Paradise Regained, Book IV

    The panel discusThe panel discusses the end of the second temptation, with Satan's exasperation and the exhaustion of his intellect, followed by his less cunning and crafty final temptation, set high atop the pinnacle of the temple in Jerusalem, whence he falls anew.

    1 h 4 min
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Critical Readings examines key literary texts using close reading and critical analysis, and explains these approaches in discussion. Listeners will learn about the texts themselves and about how to approach a text for critical analysis.

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    2019 - 2026
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