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    The History of Literature

    The History of Literature

    The History of Literature

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    Length:
    609 episodes
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Description

    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 [email protected].
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Episodes1 - 10 of 609 episodes

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    630 Queer Shakespeare (with Will Tosh) | Ray Bradbury and the Search for the Mysterious Mr Electrico

    Was Shakespeare gay? Will Tosh, head of research at Shakespeare's Globe Theater in Lond...

    69 minutes
    		Sep 02, 2024

    629 Unlocking the Creative Unconscious (with Kate Feiffer)

    For thousands of years, desperate writers have struggled with the condition known as wr...

    62 minutes
    		Aug 26, 2024

    628 Meet the Woman Who REALLY Wrote Shakespeare's Plays (with Jodi Picoult) | My Last Book with Allison Pataki

    Is it really true? Did the Elizabethan poet Emilia Bassano (sometimes known as Aemelia ...

    67 minutes
    		Aug 20, 2024

    627 Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" (with Mark Cirino)

    It's one of the most famous and admired short stories that Ernest Hemingway ever wrote ...

    65 minutes
    		Aug 12, 2024

    626 Mike Recommends... Roland Barthes! | Storytelling for Fun and Profit with Matt Abrahams

    As fans of literature, we all know how powerful and effective storytelling can be. But ...

    64 minutes
    		Aug 08, 2024

    625 Louisa May Alcott - The Essays (with Liz Rosenberg)

    Since the publication of Little Women in 1868, millions of readers have gotten to know ...

    66 minutes
    		Aug 05, 2024

    624 Top 10 Great Performances (with Laurie Frankel) | My Last Book with James Shapiro

    Theater is by nature ephemeral: even the greatest of performances are fleeting, thrilli...

    67 minutes
    		Jul 29, 2024

    623 Unpacking a Japanese Masterpiece - The Hakkenden, or Eight Dogs (with Glynne Walley) | Literature and the Olympics

    The Hakkenden, or Eight Dogs is one of the classics of Japanese literature. In this epi...

    63 minutes
    		Jul 25, 2024

    622 Lesbians in the Archives (with Amelia Possanza)

    Lesbians have been around for thousands of years (at least!), but their voices have oft...

    70 minutes
    		Jul 22, 2024

    621 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

    For Virginia Woolf, Leo Tolstoy was "the greatest of all novelists," and her argument w...

    90 minutes
    		Jul 15, 2024