The History of Literature
Amateur enthusiast Jacke Wilson journeys through the history of literature, from ancient epics to contemporary classics. Episodes are not in chronological order and you don't need to start at the beginning - feel free to jump in wherever you like! Find out more at historyofliterature.com and facebook.com/historyofliterature. Support the show by visiting patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/donate. Contact the show at historyofliteraturepodcast@gmail.com.
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146 Power Ranking the Nobel Prize for Literature
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145 Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know - The Story...
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144 Food in Literature (with Ronica Dhar)
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143 A Soldier's Heart - Teaching Literature at ...
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142 Comedian Joe Pera Talks with Us (with Joe P...
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141 Kurt Vonnegut (with Mike Palindrome)
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140 Pulp Fiction and the Hardboiled Crime Novel...
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139 A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka
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138 Why Poetry (with Matthew Zapruder)
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136 The Kids Are All Right (Aren't They?) - Mak...
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135 Aristotle Goes to the Movies (with Brian Pr...
How a 2,500-year-old treatise on Greek tragedy can unlock the secrets of storytelling.
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134 The Greatest Night of Franz Kafka's Life
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133 The Hidden Machinery - Discovering the Secr...
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132 Top 10 Literary Villains
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131 Dante in Love (with Professor Ellen Nerenbe...
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130 The Poet and the Painter – The Great Love A...
Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) began her career as a poet of love and ended it as the poet of suffering and heartbreak, thanks in no small part to the totalitarian Russian regime she suffered under. On today’s special Valentine’s Day edition of The History...
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129 Great Sports Novels – Where Are They? (with...
Every year, the Super Bowl draws over 100 million viewers in the U.S. alone, and the Olympics and World Cup will be watched by billions around the world. Movies and television shows about sports are too numerous to count. But where are the novels?
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128 Top 10 Animals in Literature (with Mike Pal...
Continuing our look at animals in literature, we’re joined by Mike Palindrome, President of the Literature Supporters Club, for a discussion of the Top 10 Animals in Literature. Did your favorite make the list? Did we leave it out altogether?
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127 Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein (1874 – 1946) would be essential to the history of literature had she never written a word – but she did write words, lots of them, and they’ve led to her having an uneasy position in the canon of English literature.
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126 Animals in Literature (Part One)
Inspired by a listener’s heartfelt request, we take a look at an often overlooked subject: animals in literature. In this episode, a precursor to a forthcoming Draft with President Mike (i.e., “The 10 Best Animals in Literature”),
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125 Raymond Carver
Raymond Carver (1938-1988) packed a lot of pain of suffering into his relatively brief life. He also experienced relief and even joy – and along the way, he became one of the most influential short story writers of the American twentieth century.
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124 James Joyce’s “The Dead” (Part 2)
In this second part of a two-part episode, we look at the resounding conclusion of James Joyce’s masterpiece “The Dead,” which contains some of the finest prose ever written in the English language. Be warned: this episode,
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123 James Joyce’s The Dead (Part 1)
Happy holidays! In this special two-part episode, host Jacke Wilson takes a look at a story that he can’t stop thinking about: James Joyce’s masterpiece “The Dead.” How does it work? Why is it so good? And why does it resonate so deeply with Jacke?
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122 Young James Joyce
We often think of James Joyce as a man in his thirties and forties, a monkish, fanatical, eyepatch-wearing author, trapped in his hovel and his own mind, agonizing over his masterpieces, sentence by sentence, word by laborious word.
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121 A Portrait of the Poet as a Young Man – Joh...
In this episode, author Karin Roffman joins Jacke for a conversation about her literary biography of John Ashbery, one of America’s greatest twentieth-century poets. In naming Songs We Know Best: John Ashbery’s Early Life as one of its Notable Books of...
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