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RT @HSCrossSav: I had so much fun discussing poetry set to music (some of which features in my upcoming novel AMANDA) on Crticial Readings….
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The panel is joined by the novelist H.S. Cross to discuss three poems that have been famously set to music: “The Lark Ascending” by George Meredith, “Most Glorious Lord of Life…
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CR Episode 284: Poetry and Music.
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The panel is joined by the novelist H.S. Cross to discuss three poems that have been famously set to music: “The Lark Ascending” by George Meredith, “Most Glorious Lord of Life…
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Our hosts have the week off in advance of the start of the new academic year. New podcast episodes will resume on 18 August. Good luck to students and professors alike in the year to come!
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CR Episode 283: Tristram Shandy, Part XIV.
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The panel concludes the summer reading with the ninth and final book of Tristram Shandy, compassing the manner of the liaison between Uncle Toby and the Widow Wadman, with special attention to Toby…
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CR Episode 282: Tristram Shandy, Part XIII.
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The panel reads the conclusion of the eighth book, with attention to metaphorical fortifications and battle plans, a tale of one-sided love between Corporal Trim and a Nursing Nun, and a budding ro…
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The Mystic Seaport Museum’s 40th annual Moby Dick Marathon starts at noon on Thursday, 31 July, on the last existing wooden whaling ship, the 1841 Charles W. Morgan. The reading ends around 1:30 pm the next day and there will be cake to celebrate Melville’s birthday!.
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CR Episode 281: Tristram Shandy, Part XII.
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The panel discusses the books seven and eight, with particular attention to the parallel narratives used to describe the approach to Lyons, the different forms of bad luck Tristram encounters there…
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CR Episode 280: Tristram Shandy, Part XI.
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The panel discusses narrative lines straight and winding in book six, and parallel trips in France in book seven, including Tristram’s three visits to Auxerre: as a child, as a young man, and…
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CR Episode 279: Tristram Shandy, Part X.
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The panel discusses the majority of the sixth book, with attention to the ‘picture’ of the Widow Wadman, the story of Le Fever and his orphaned son, the mode of classical dress, and the…
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CR Episode 278: Tristram Shandy, Part IX.
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The panel discusses the conclusion of the fifth book, with attention to how the hobby horses of Trim and Toby reappear, and what they suggest about the potential truth in ancient knowledge and the …
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This week’s episode (no. 278) will be a few days late as we reschedule due to illness. Whilst you wait, we recommend a look through our back catalogue of episodes, all of which are online and ad-free!.
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CR Episode 277: Tristram Shandy, Part VIII.
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The panel discusses the beginning of book five, including the extreme discomfort of riding post-chaise, the concupiscent meanings which attach to ordinary words thereby rendering them unusable, and…
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CR Episode 276: Tristram Shandy, Part VII.
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The panel discusses the conclusion of the fourth book, including Walter and Toby stuck on the stairs amidst further discussion of the definition of a nose (or noes), and the inflexible irrevocabili…
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CR Episode 275: Tristram Shandy, Part VI.
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The panel reads the conclusion of book three and the beginning of book four in which the topic of noses recurs and features prominently, providing an opportunity to examine how Dr. Slop and Walter …
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CR Episode 274: Tristram Shandy, Part V.
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The panel approaches the moment of Tristram’s birth beginning with the author’s preface (in book 3), followed by a definition of ‘nose’, and a series of mix-ups involving th…
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CR Episode 273: Tristram Shandy, Part IV.
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The panel concludes the second book and, in a series of retrograde manoeuvres, progresses through the third book until Dr. Slop is able to receive delivery of his forceps, free them from their knot…
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CR Episode 272: Tristram Shandy, Part III.
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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 th…
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CR Episode 271: Tristram Shandy, Part II.
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The panel discusses Tristram’s father’s theories about nominative determinism, the different translations of identical biblical names, and the latest contemporary French developments re…
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CR Episode 270: Tristram Shandy, Part I.
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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 …
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Our 14-week summer special begins tomorrow!.Laurence “Larry” Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.
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