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Critical Readings

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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.

arts literature

All Episodes

78:16

CR Episode 225: All for Love, Act V

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2024/06/03

The panel closes discussion of Dryden's All for Love with an examination of the death of Marc Antony and Cleopatra, how the scene differs from that of Shakespeare, and what role is ultimately played by Octavius, even despite his absence from the stage.Continue reading

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CR Episode 224: All for Love, Act IV

Critical Readings ·

2024/05/27

The panel discusses the penultimate act of Dryden's All for Love, with special attention to the depictions (or rather, lack thereof) of Octavius, the villainous portrayal of Alexas, and the play's lack of a clearly-defined figure of heroic virtue.Continue reading

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68:37

CR Episode 223: All for Love, Act III

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2024/05/20

The panel discusses the third act of Dryden's most successful play, All for Love, with particular attention to Marc Antony's lack of constancy, and Dryden's artistic reimagining of historical events in order to place Octavia in Cleopatra's palace.Continue reading

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80:52

CR Episode 222: All for Love, Act II

Critical Readings ·

2024/05/06

The panel reads the second act of John Dryden's All for Love, with special attention to the rhetorical manoeuvres of Cleopatra, and the psychological state of both Antony and Cleopatra, as their outsized emotional investments doom them both.Continue reading

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65:36

CR Episode 221: All for Love, Act I

Critical Readings ·

2024/04/29

The panel reads the first act of John Dryden's take on the story of Antony and Cleopatra, All for Love, with a focus on Marc Antony's mental state, the military situation with which he is confronted, and whether he is at fault for his circumstances.Continue reading

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72:56

CR Episode 220: Antony and Cleopatra, Act V

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2024/04/22

The panel concludes with the final act of Antony and Cleopatra, highlighting Octavius' intentions towards his defeated political foe, Cleopatra's attempt to escape the wheel of fate, and the Roman development of Boethius' response to Stoicism.Continue reading

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82:30

CR Episode 219: Antony and Cleopatra, Act IV

Critical Readings ·

2024/04/15

The panel reads the fourth act of Antony and Cleopatra with particular attention to the character of Marc Antony and his worldview of personal honour and prowess, in conflict with the political schemes and grand designs of both Octavius and Cleopatra.Continue reading

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81:41

CR Episode 218: Antony and Cleopatra, Act III

Critical Readings ·

2024/04/01

The panel discusses the third act, with a focus on the deterioration of the Roman political situation, Marc Antony's skills as a battlefield leader and a political figure, and the sophisticated psychological understanding of both Octavius and Cleopatra.Continue reading

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68:53

CR Episode 217: Antony and Cleopatra, Act II

Critical Readings ·

2024/03/25

The panel discusses the second act of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, with a focus on the Roman political situation, the difference between republican and dictatorial rule, and Cleopatra's intoxicating effect upon those caught in her orbit.Continue reading

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77:21

CR Episode 216: Antony and Cleopatra, Act I

Critical Readings ·

2024/03/18

The panel reads the first act of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, providing an historical overview of the events, and reading the text with attention given to the psychological motivations of the drama and their historical context within Roman culture.Continue reading

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CR Episode 215: Introduction to Lady Mary Wroth

Critical Readings ·

2024/03/11

The panel reads three poems by Lady Mary Wroth, from The Countess of Montgomery's Urania and Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, discussing their context, social impact, and the paradox of their genre conventionality but also Elizabethan authorial radicalism.Continue reading

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58:13

CR Episode 214: The Poetry of N. Scott Momaday

Critical Readings ·

2024/03/04

The panel reads three poems by N. Scott Momaday, including "The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee", "The Monoliths", and "Rings of Bone" with special attention to the usage of active and passive symbolism, and the function of time, stasis, and circularity.Continue reading

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99:21

CR Episode 213: Bartleby, the Scrivener

Critical Readings ·

2024/02/19

The panel discusses Melville's short story, "Bartleby, the Scrivener", and examines the symbolism of its characters, the meaning of Bartleby's passive resistance, and the various interpretations of the work in light of history and literary theory.Continue reading

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CR Episode 212: The Poetry of Amy Lowell

Critical Readings ·

2024/02/12

The panel reads three, middle-length poems by the XXth century imagist poet, Amy Lowell, with special attention to their use of garden-like symbolism, liminal spaces (physical and temporal), and the moon as a metaphorical representation of transience.Continue reading

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83:19

CR Episode 211: Later Poetry of Thomas Warton

Critical Readings ·

2024/02/05

The panel reads two later poems by Thomas Warton, including "Verses on Sir Joshua Reynolds's Painted Window at New College Oxford" and "Written at Vale-Royal Abbey in Cheshire," and considers them within the context of Anglicanism and the Enlightenment.Continue reading

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57:04

CR Episode 210: Warton’s The Pleasures of Melancholy

Critical Readings ·

2024/01/29

The panel introduces one of the Graveyard Poets, Thomas Warton the Younger, and reads in full his most famous poem, "The Pleasures of Melancholy", with attention to how it prefigures the Romantics even as it remains part of the Augustan worldview.Continue reading

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63:06

CR Episode 209: Poetry of Robert Burns

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2024/01/22

In advance of Burns Night, the panel reads four poems by Robert Burns, including "To a Mouse" and "For a' That and a' That", with special attention given to the presence of Romanticism, the use of dialect, and the brotherhood of mankind within nature.Continue reading

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61:49

CR Episode 208: Benito Cereno, Part II

Critical Readings ·

2024/01/15

The panel discusses the second half of Melville's Benito Cereno, with a focus on the American abolition movement, the obliviousness (wilful or not) of Captain Amasa Delano, the mental domination of Benito Cereno, and Bobo's refusal to be subjugated.Continue reading

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CR Episode 207: Benito Cereno, Part I

Critical Readings ·

2024/01/08

The panel provides a primer to academic publishing, including surveying the field, finding an argumentative niche, entering the conversation, and basic research practises, before moving on to symbolism in the first half of Herman Melville's Benito Cereno.Continue reading

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CR Episode 206: A Christmas Carol, Part II

Critical Readings ·

2024/01/01

The panel reads the last three staves, covering the Ghosts of Christmas Present and Future, and Scrooge's penitential reformation, with special attention to Scrooge's position within the community, and the motivation behind his miraculous change.Continue reading

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