The Casual Academic: A Literary Podcast
In-depth literary discussion without the pretence. Just good books. Based out of Madrid, Spain, we compress big ideas and in-depth discussion of literature into a digestible, entertaining format. www.thecasualacademic.com
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Episode 36 - Structural Tricks, Disintegration & Ghosts in Valeria Luiselli's "Faces in the Crowd"
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Episode 35 - Memory, Self & La Revoluci贸n in Carlos Fuentes' "The Death of Artemio Cruz"
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Traveler, Writer, Soldier, Spy: Lit & Context in Patrick L. Fermor's "The Violins of Saint-Jacques"
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Episode 33 - Disembodiment, Structure & Millennial Existentialism in Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar"
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The Arabesque, Orientalism & Unholy Trinities in Jan Potocki's "The Manuscript Found in Saragossa"
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Episode 31 - Gender Binaries, Identity & Interiority in Qiu Miaojin's "Notes of a Crocodile"
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Episode 30 - Imposters, Doppelg盲ngers & Duplicates in Silvina Ocampo's "Thus Were Their Faces"
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Episode 29 - Memory, Perception & Fairytales in Tatyana Tolstaya's "White Walls"
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Episode 28 - Untouchability, Inaction and "The Seventh Seal" in U.R. Ananthamurthy's "Samskara"
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Episode 27 (Pt. 2) - Gender, Sexuality & Race in Carson McCullers' "The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter"
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Episode 27(Pt.1)- Southern Gothic Limits, Low Modernism & Politics in "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter"
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Aside #22 - Environmental Humanities & an intro to Carson McCullers' "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter"
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Episode 26 (Pt. 2) - Postcolonial Problems, Decay & Flux in V.S. Naipaul's "The Enigma of Arrival"
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Episode 26 (Pt. 1) - 'Jack's Garden' & 'The Journey' in V.S. Naipaul's "The Enigma of Arrival"
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Aside #20 - Separating Art from Artist and looking ahead to V.S. Naipaul & "The Enigma of Arrival"
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Episode 25 (Pt.2) - Critical Interpretations of Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw"
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Episode 25 (Pt.1) - Some Changes, Narrative Games & Our First Impressions of "The Turn of the Screw"
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Episode 24 - R.L. Stevenson, Plotting & Immortality in Adolfo Bioy Casares' "The Invention of Morel"
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Aside #18 - Argentine Literature, Borges & an Intro to Adolfo Bioy Casares' "The Invention of Morel"
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Aside #17 - Summer Reads, The Return of the Serial & Electric Lit's "Star Witness"
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Episode 23 - Belief, Con Artists & The American Soul in Neil Gaiman's "American Gods"
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Aside #16 - Weddings, Summer Reads & an intro to Neil Gaiman's "American Gods"
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Episode 22 - Science in Sci-Fi, Aliens, and a Critique of Democracy in "The Black Cloud"
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Episode 21 - Speculative Fiction, Language and Survival in Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale"
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Aside #14 - Lit Hub, Environmental Humanities & an Intro Discussion on "The Handmaid's Tale"
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Vanity, Philosophy & Literary Lineages in Machado de Assis' "The Posthumous Memoirs of Br谩s Cubas"
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Episode 19 - Narrative Techniques & The Thing Itself in Clarice Lispector's "Near to the Wild Heart"
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Aside #12 - Brazilian Lit Month, an introduction to Clarice Lispector & "The Hour of the Star"
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Special - Live Recording of the Launch of Literary Zine "La Errante," from Desperate Literature
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Episode 18 - Love, Violent Sexuality, and Western Influence in Yukio Mishima's Confessions of a Mask
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Episode 17 - Female Gothic, Neurosis & Humor in Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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Episode 16 - The Poetics of Suspension in "The Rings of Saturn" and the Greatness of W.G. Sebald
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Aside #9 - Our New Website and an Introduction to W.G. Sebald's "The Rings of Saturn"
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Episode 15 - Ambiguity, Violence and the Postcolonial Condition in Season of Migration to the North
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Aside #8 - Tayeb Salih, Edward Said & a preview of "Season of Migration to the North"
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Episode 13 - Mirages, Dread and the Unreliable Narrator in Lovecraft's "At The Mountains of Madness"
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Aside #7 - Ligotti, Lovecraft and the Spectral History of the American Novel
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Episode 11 - Semiotics, Sublimation and Inter-Textuality in Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose"
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