Paideia Today
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Episodes of Paideia Today
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William Faulkner is acknowledge to be one of the greatest American authors of the 20th century. His scintillating writing, masterful plots, mesmerizing characters, and shocking perspective make him the other great pioneer of Southern Gothic (al
Today we discuss a flagship work of Post-Modernism, Waiting for Godot. This is one of the seminal works which signals the way forward for culture and its art in the Post-Modernist era (1945-2001). We explore the evolution of our current angst,
J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) is the greatest author of the the twentieth century. At least he is by popular acclaim. In the eyes of the critics and the literary establishment, he has been virtually ignored. In this episode we open what could b
Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His reputation, however, only really advanced in the light of the atrocities of the
Today's episode focuses on Flannery O'Connor (1925–64), an American writer famed for her 'southern Gothic' style. We will read O'Connor as a Christian realist who portrays the depravity of the human condition with unusual acuity, set as it is
In today's episode of Paideia Today, we look at the famed British novelist George Orwell (1903-50), whose work is so harrowing the adjective Orwellian has come to describe the peculiarly modern form of totalitarian technocracy.
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, prose writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. We spend the majority of the episode looking at Yeats' most famous poem and observe the way it reflects the
W.H. Auden (1907 –1973) is one of the great poets of the twentieth century. Some regard him as a lesser poet to Yeats and Eliot - we discuss that here - but he was also a prolific writer of prose essays and reviews on literary, political, psy
T.S. Eliot has been embraced as a great poet on both sides of the Atlantic. Born in the United States, Eliot emigrated to England and remained there. He became the key figure of the Modernist movement. We discuss Eliot's poetry as well as th
Joseph Conrad is an extraordinary figure, not least because he wrote his novels in his second language. His novella Heart of Darkness is justly famous for its depiction of the evil of the human heart in the context of the 'scramble for Africa'
Episode 2 of Season four again sets the foundation for the Modernist movement, looking at the two superb poetic craftsman, Thomas Hardy and A.E. Housman. What is noteworthy about the two, besides their aesthetic excellence, is the way they cap
Season 4 of Paideia Today begins with the Irish writer Oscar Wilde. Wilde initiates literary modernism, which in turn sows the seeds of a sort of postmodernism rarely discussed by those tracing the history of ideas. It is vital, however, be
For the conclusion of season 3 of Paideia Today we look at the Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy. Tolstoy, like Dostoevsky, engages with the modern alienation from life that progressive ideology and commitment to material advances. Rather than one
Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment catalogues the life of a young political idealist who commits two murders to fulfill his ambition. It is an exceptionally subtle and complex narrative, which not only leans on elements of Dostoevsky's own biog
Alfred, Lord Tennyson was the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign and until recently was one of the most popular British poets. But he has been seriously neglected in recent years. In this episode of Paideia Today, we discuss
Today's episode of Paideia Today looks at Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. This fascinating novel represents an amalgamation of various strands of the novel tradition, but arguably begins a new one, that of science fiction. In the process, Shelle
Jane Austen is without doubt one of the finest prose stylists and keenest observers of human nature. We discuss Austen as a novelist in the light of that eighteenth century genre, noting that her clear satire is what marks her as a great mor
Samuel Taylor Coleridge is credited with giving the definitive take on the imagination, the faculty all the Romantics claim marks their distinctive poetic experiment. But is Coleridge's definition actually more a critique of Romantic poetics t
William Wordsworth is the poet most strongly identified with a literary movement we call Romantic. Today's episode discusses many of the complex features of that movement while also engaging with some of the work by the great poet.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) is a colossal figure who bestrides the age lying between the age of Pope and the Romantics. In acknowledgement of his extraordinary erudition, he is often referred to as Dr. Johnson. Dr. Johnson made lasting contrib
Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal is the finest specimen of the age of satire and wit that succeeds that of Milton's age
This final episode on Milton's Paradise Lost looks at the various ways in which Milton explores the area we now understand under the term psychology, seeing both paradise and hell respectively as the obedient or defiant relations of the charact
The invocation at the outset of Milton's Paradise Lost announces that he will 'justify the ways of God to men." Yet most anthologies cut Book 3 of Paradise Lost, the Council of Heaven, in which the God explains the rationale for the lost parad
In our third episode on Milton's Paradise Lost, we look at Book 2. We emphasize Milton's theological commitments, rejecting the popular contemporary view that he is mixing our ideas of good and evil, as does the pantheist. Quite the contrary,
In today's episode of Paideia Today, we get into book one of Paradise Lost. We start by looking at his invocation of the Muse, and how he invokes the Classical epics of yore in order to acknowledge the vehicle of epic narrative while at the sa
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