Episódios

  • CR Episode 272: Tristram Shandy, Part III

    CR Episode 272: Tristram Shandy, Part III
    May 19 2025
    The panel discusses book II, chapters 6–17 and Sterne's use of metanarrative focus on the correct art of oratory, the use of puns and textual elisions, the need to fill in details or leave them to readerly imagination, and the use of real-world sermons.Continue reading
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    1 hora e 22 minutos
  • CR Episode 271: Tristram Shandy, Part II

    CR Episode 271: Tristram Shandy, Part II
    May 12 2025
    The panel discusses Tristram's father's theories about nominative determinism, the different translations of identical biblical names, and the latest contemporary French developments regarding pre-natal baptism and its theological justifications.Continue reading
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    1 hora e 6 minutos
  • CR Episode 270: Tristram Shandy, Part I

    CR Episode 270: Tristram Shandy, Part I
    May 5 2025
    The panel begins the summer reading of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman with a biographical overview of Laurence Sterne, followed by the first eighteen chapters, with a focus on the novel's metatextual moves and discursive structure.Continue reading
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    1 hora e 11 minutos
  • CR Episode 269: Pygmalion, Part V

    CR Episode 269: Pygmalion, Part V
    Apr 28 2025
    The panel reads the final act of Shaw's Pygmalion, and then excerpts from the epilogue, with particular attention to Shaw's preference for realism over romanticism, the utilitarian mindset of Higgins towards other people, and the role of equal treatment.Continue reading
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    1 hora e 16 minutos
  • CR Episode 268: Pygmalion, Part IV

    CR Episode 268: Pygmalion, Part IV
    Apr 21 2025
    The panel reads the fourth act in full, with a discussion of Prof. Higgins' narcissism and its collision with his deepening feelings, an examination of the contemporary social strata in British society, and a review of Shaw's later additions to the act.Continue reading
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    56 minutos
  • CR Episode 267: Pygmalion, Part III

    CR Episode 267: Pygmalion, Part III
    Apr 14 2025
    The panel discusses the third act, in which the antisocial Higgins and the gallant Pickering are exposed as juveniles by the savvy Mrs. Higgins, and Liza's speech proves insufficiently convincing when it is not backed up by the right idioms and content.Continue reading
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    1 hora e 15 minutos
  • CR Episode 266: Pygmalion, Part II

    CR Episode 266: Pygmalion, Part II
    Apr 7 2025
    The panel discusses Shaw's work on Wagner and a brief overview of the classical inspiration for his Pygmalion, before reading the second act with attention to the characters of Professor Higgins and Mr. Doolittle, and to contemporary social conventions.Continue reading
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    1 hora e 13 minutos
  • CR Episode 265: Pygmalion, Part I

    CR Episode 265: Pygmalion, Part I
    Mar 31 2025
    The panel reads the first act of George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, with an introduction to the author, and a consideration of how the play reflects Shaw's interest in social welfare, especially in the context of the works of Dickens and Trollope.Continue reading
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    1 hora e 7 minutos