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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. -5 дн.

    CR Episode 336: The Once and Future King, Part XII

    The panel discusses the first five chapters of The Candle in the Wind, the last of the four books in the tetralogy, with a look at White's historical overview of the mediæval period, and a thorough study of his villainous duo of Agravaine and Mordred. Continue reading

  2. 10 авг.

    CR Episode 335: The Once and Future King, Part XI

    The panel discusses the closing chapters of The Ill-Made Knight, with attention to the circumstances of Guenever's increasingly frenzied behaviour towards Lancelot, and to his growth as a character—from self-glorifying to self-abasing—across the book. Continue reading

  3. 3 авг.

    CR Episode 334: The Once and Future King, Part X

    The panel discusses chapters 26–33 of The Ill-Made Knight, examining the violent deaths of Morgause and Lamorak, Arthur's solution to the problem of 'games-mania' in the Round Table, Guenever's festering jealousy, and Lancelot's spiritual devotions. Continue reading

  4. 27 июл.

    CR Episode 333: The Once and Future King, Part IX

    The panel addresses reader questions and discusses chapters 19–25 of The Ill-Made Knight, with an examination of Lancelot's pitiable condition and an investigation into its causes, whether due to internal contradiction, or because of external pressures. Continue reading

  5. 20 июл.

    CR Episode 332: The Once and Future King, Part VIII

    The panel discusses chapters 9–18 of The Ill-Made Knight, with special attention given to the development of Lancelot's relationships with the wily Elaine and the imperious Guenever, particularly in the savage denouement that leads to Lancelot's madness. Continue reading

  6. 13 июл.

    CR Episode 331: The Once and Future King, Part VII

    The panel discusses chapters 1–8 of The Ill-Made Knight, with special attention given to the characterisation and Freudian psychology of Lancelot, contrasting humility with narcissism, and examining the beginning of his relationship with Guenever. Continue reading

  7. 6 июл.

    CR Episode 330: The Once and Future King, Part VI

    The panel reads the second half of The Queen of Air and Darkness, giving special consideration to Arthur's vision of the Round Table and total war, the need for Might to support Right against wickedness, the Aristotelian (or not) nature of the tragedy. Continue reading

  8. 29 июн.

    CR Episode 329: The Once and Future King, Part V

    The panel discusses the first half of The Queen of Air and Darkness (also known as The Witch in the Wood), with particular attention both to the Freudian characterisation of Morgause and her children, and to Merlyn's 'just war' political philosophy. Continue reading

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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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