Save Me From My Shelf

Abigail Boucher and Daniel Jenkin-Smith
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We're friends and academics who take classic literature off its pedestal by making fun of it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. 8月20日

    SMFMS Bookends 22: Fahrenheit 451

    The twenty-second episode of SMFMS Bookends, the satellite show for Save Me From My Shelf. Here we read emails, answer listener questions, talk about what we're currently reading, watching, and playing, resuscitate the Bad Sex Awards™, and provide further outtakes and analysis cut from our Fahrenheit 451 episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    35 分钟

  2. 8月13日

    Episode 70 - Fahrenheit 451

    Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. This season, we are only looking at banned and controversial texts. In our seventieth episode, Ray Bradbury's literary-based dystopia, Fahrenheit 451 (1953), we get one step closer to EGOT-ing, see more of Abby's French-Canadian Vermonter roots, process Daniel's early cinema trauma, and discuss some scholastic terms: fridging, Bowlderisation, and Futurismo. Cover art © Catherine Wu. Episode Theme: Tchaikovsky, 'Valse Sentimental' by Clara Rockmore on theramin. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1 小时 11 分钟

  3. 7月23日

    SMFMS Bookends 21: Fanny Hill

    The twenty-first episode of SMFMS Bookends, the satellite show for Save Me From My Shelf. Here we read emails, answer listener questions, talk about what we're currently reading, watching, and playing, resuscitate the Bad Sex Awards™, and provide further outtakes and analysis cut from our Fanny Hill episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    32 分钟

  4. 7月16日

    Episode 69 - Fanny Hill

    Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. This season, we are only looking at banned and controversial texts. In our sixty-ninth episode (nice) we recap the first (?) known pornographic work to use the novel as its form: John Cleland's Fanny Hill, Or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748). We see a weaponised Measuringworth and learn the joys of giant maypoles, turtlebilling, and plenipontentary instruments. Cover art © Catherine Wu. Episode Theme: John Gay, 'Overture' in The Beggar's Opera (1728). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1 小时 11 分钟

  5. 6月25日

    SMFMS Bookends 20: A Streetcar Named Desire

    The twentieth episode of SMFMS Bookends, the satellite show for Save Me From My Shelf. Here we read emails, answer listener questions, talk about what we're currently reading, watching, and playing, resuscitate the Bad Sex Awards™, and provide further outtakes and analysis cut from our Streetcar episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    28 分钟

  6. 6月18日

    Episode 68 - A Streetcar Named Desire

    Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. This season, we are only looking at banned and controversial texts. In our sixty-eighth episode, we recap Tennessee Williams's most famous work, A Streetcar Named Desire (1947). Abby stresses out after some massive audio equipment failure and Daniel reveals himself to be both the podcast's Brando AND a thriving gay man. Cover art © Catherine Wu. Episode Theme: Daniel Jenkin-Smith, 'Trolley Problem'. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1 小时 11 分钟

  7. 5月28日

    SMFMS Bookends 19: Ulysses

    The ninteenth episode of SMFMS Bookends, the satellite show for Save Me From My Shelf. Here we read emails, answer listener questions, talk about what we're currently reading, watching, and playing, resuscitate the Bad Sex Awards™, and provide further outtakes and analysis cut from our Ulysses episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    36 分钟

  8. 5月21日

    Episode 67b - Ulysses, Part Two

    Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. This season, we are only looking at banned and controversial texts. In our sixty-seventh episode, we examine the second half of James Joyce's 800-page inscruitable Modernist Masterpiece, Ulysses. Here we recap the 'Nausicaa' chapter, which got the book banned in the first place, and speculate on if such an achievement in literature angered the gods. Cover art © Catherine Wu. Episode Theme: 'The Rocky Road to Dublin'. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1 小时 2 分钟
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We're friends and academics who take classic literature off its pedestal by making fun of it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

信息

  • 创作者
    Abigail Boucher and Daniel Jenkin-Smith
  • 活跃年份
    2021年 - 2025年
  • 单集
    112
  • 分级
    儿童不宜
  • 版权
    © Abigail Boucher and Daniel Jenkin-Smith
  • 节目网站
    Save Me From My Shelf

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