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  1. THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Plato's Ion, Symposium, and Phaedrus

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    THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Plato's Ion, Symposium, and Phaedrus

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit grandhotelabyss.substack.com Welcome back to The Invisible College, my series of literature courses for paid subscribers. The introduction to and schedule for the 2025 season is here. The 2024 archive is here. This episode, of which the first 20 minutes are free, concerns Plato’s philosophical dialogues Ion, Symposium, and Phaedrus. We consider the roots of Greek philosophy and the character of Socrates; Plato’s war on poetry and sophistry, his philosophy of sex and love, his theory of forms, his totalitarian politics, and his case against media; plus, the real reason Socrates was executed and Jacques Derrida’s deconstructive reading of Plato as writer. Please like, share, and comment! The slideshow corresponding to the episode can be downloaded behind the paywall:

    19 мин.
  2. THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Aristophanes's Lysistrata and Euripides's Medea and Bacchae

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    THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Aristophanes's Lysistrata and Euripides's Medea and Bacchae

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit grandhotelabyss.substack.com Welcome back to The Invisible College, my series of literature courses for paid subscribers. The introduction to and schedule for the 2025 season is here. The 2024 archive is here. This episode, of which the first 12 minutes is free, concerns Aristophanes’s comedy Lysistrata and Euripides’s tragedies Medea and Bacchae. We consider the Old Comedy and the New and their divergent legacies, as well as the conservative subversions of Aristophanic satire. Then we turn to Euripides’s controversial innovations in the art of tragedy (deprecated by Aristophanes, among others) and his association with radical currents in Athenian life. Added commentary by Heinrich Heine, Friedrich Nietzsche, Anne Carson, and Camille Paglia. Please like, share, and comment! The slideshow corresponding to the episode can be downloaded behind the paywall:

    2 ч. 13 мин.
  3. THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Sophocles's Theban Plays

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    THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Sophocles's Theban Plays

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit grandhotelabyss.substack.com Welcome back to The Invisible College, my series of literature courses for paid subscribers. The introduction to and schedule for the 2025 season is here. The 2024 archive is here. This episode, of which the first 10 minutes is free, concerns Sophocles’s Theban plays. I discuss Sophocles’s biography and his place among the tragedians in 5th-century Athens; I consider Antigone as clash of values and ambivalent portrayal of perversity and extremism, with reference to Hegel; I read Oedipus the King as a counter-enlightenment statement vindicating the primacy of fate over knowledge, with reference to Freud; and I interpret Oedipus at Colonus as a mystery rite in defense of mystery, and a pre- and proto-Christian portrayal of the scapegoat-become-god, with reference to Girard. Above all, I consider Sophocles’s potential nihilism, redeemed only by the promise of joining divinity in death. Please like, share, and comment! The slideshow corresponding to the episode can be downloaded behind the paywall:

    11 мин.
  4. THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Aeschylus's Oresteia

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    THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Aeschylus's Oresteia

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit grandhotelabyss.substack.com Welcome back to The Invisible College, my series of literature courses for paid subscribers. The introduction to and schedule for the 2025 season is here. The 2024 archive is here. This episode, of which the first 10 minutes is free, concerns Aeschylus’s tragic trilogy, The Oresteia. I discuss the limited state of our knowledge about Athenian drama and the philosophical impediments to that knowledge; questions of translation; the mythical life of Aeschylus; and the trilogy itself, a progressive dialectical narrative, half horror movie, half courtroom drama, about the regime change from impersonal youth-oriented masculine sky-god civilization from familial gerontocratic feminine earth-goddess tradition, a development I characterize as at one and the same time the nadir of misogyny and the apotheosis of feminism. Please like, share, and comment! The slideshow corresponding to the episode can be downloaded behind the paywall:

    10 мин.
  5. THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Homer's Odyssey

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    THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Homer's Odyssey

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit grandhotelabyss.substack.com Welcome back to The Invisible College, my series of literature courses for paid subscribers. The introduction to and schedule for the 2025 season is here. The 2024 archive is here. This episode, of which the first 20 minutes is free, concerns Homer’s Odyssey. Topics include translation controversies, historical esoterica, and what it means—for everything from art to gender to social organization—for The Odyssey to be “the first bourgeois novel.” Please like, share, and comment! The slideshow corresponding to the episode can be downloaded behind the paywall:

    20 мин.
  6. THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury

    27.12.2024

    THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit grandhotelabyss.substack.com Welcome to 2024’s final episode of The Invisible College. It is about William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury. My exposition is almost as aleatory as the novel itself, but I discuss Harold Bloom and Hugh Kenner’s dissent on the novel’s reputation, the general shape of Faulkner’s career, the novel’s high modernist narrative technique, the conflict between tragic and Christian visions in the text, and more. With the help of Jean-Paul Sartre, I consider the novel’s “metaphysic of time.” With the help of Ralph Ellison, I elaborate on its deconstruction of the racial ideology that masks humanity. With the help of André Bleikasten, I explore the novel as the frenzied stasis of a Grecian Urn frieze spinning around the vortex that is Faulkner’s view of the feminine. All this and more. Please enjoy! Thanks to my paid subscribers! If you are not a paid subscriber, please enjoy the free 24-minute preview, and please offer a paid subscription to hear the rest, to listen to the 2024 archive, and to join us for the next year of our “curriculum.” I will release the 2025 syllabus on January 1; the first episode of 2025 will drop on January 17. The slideshow corresponding to this episode can be downloaded behind the paywall:

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  7. THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Wallace Stevens

    13.12.2024

    THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Wallace Stevens

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit grandhotelabyss.substack.com Welcome back to The Invisible College, my series of literature courses for paid subscribers. The 2024 syllabus can be found here. This episode, of which the first 20 minutes are free, is about the poetry of Wallace Stevens. We begin with a contrast between Pound Stevens and its sequel in 20th-century literary criticism, as well as a consideration of the role played by social prejudice in Pound and Eliot on one hand and Stevens on the other. Then we discuss Stevens’s biography, a passionate inner life lived solely in poetry. We read three short early poems for what they tell us about the proper and improper uses of imagination in Stevens, and then consider his classic “Sunday Morning” for its attempt to replace religion with artistic imagination. We go on to his greater statements on the power of the poetic imagination to re-shape reality as against both totalizing religion and totalizing politics in “The Idea of Order at Key West” and Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction. Please like, share, comment, and enjoy!—and please offer a paid subscription so you don’t miss the rest of the episode, the remainder of the American literature sequence, not to mention the archive of episodes on modern British literature from Blake to Beckett and our previous sequences on the works of Joyce, including Ulysses, and on George Eliot’s Middlemarch, and whatever awaits us in 2025. The slideshow corresponding to the lecture can be downloaded below the paywall:

    21 мин.
  8. THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Ezra Pound

    06.12.2024

    THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Ezra Pound

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit grandhotelabyss.substack.com Welcome back to The Invisible College, my series of literature courses for paid subscribers. The 2024 syllabus can be found here. This episode, of which the first 16 minutes are free, is about the poetry of Ezra Pound. We begin at the ending, with the tragedy of Pound’s later-life political dereliction and incarceration. We ask not only how these events happened, but also why this most extraordinarily gifted of poets did not become his century’s greatest, his politics notwithstanding. Then I discuss Pound’s biography and trace his poetic and intellectual development from his early poetry through The Cantos, with a triple focus on 1. his love of Troubadour poetry and the esoteric Cathar gnostic mystical goddess cult he detected beneath it it; 2. his interest in Anglo-Saxon poetry as a resource for restoring English verse back to its accentual and alliterative strength after more than half a millennium of imposed iambic pentameter and rhyme; 3. and his engagement with Chinese poetry and what he thought its ideograms portended for a poetry of the image. We also discuss, with help from Hugh Kenner, his inner conflict between Romanticism-Taoism-anarchism, on the one hand, and Classicism-Confucianism-fascism, on the other. His obsession with an obscure economic theory and its influence on his politics after the calamitous Great War is also considered, as is the failure of The Cantos to find a readership even other difficult high modernist great books have. What, finally, can we all learn from Pound’s failure? Please like, share, comment, and enjoy!—and please offer a paid subscription so you don’t miss the rest of the episode, the remainder of the American literature sequence, with forthcoming episodes on Wallace Stevens and William Faulkner, not to mention the archive of episodes on modern British literature from Blake to Beckett and our previous sequences on the works of Joyce, including Ulysses, and on George Eliot’s Middlemarch, and whatever awaits us in 2025. The slideshow corresponding to the lecture can be downloaded below the paywall:

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