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The History of Literature

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The History of Literature


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The History of Literature

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636 episodes
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English
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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 historyofliteraturepodcast@gmail.com.
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Episodes1 - 10 of 636 episodes

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657 Auden's England (with Nicholas Jenkins) | My Last Book with Gabriele Pedulla

From the beginning of his career as a poet, W.H. Auden wrestled with the meaning of Eng...

69 minutes
Dec 02, 2024

656 Novelist Chigozie Obioma on Literature, Life, and His Love for Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the Day [HOL Encore]

By listener request, Jacke presents a conversation with Nigerian-born novelist Chigozie...

69 minutes
Nov 29, 2024

655 Guilty Pleasures (with Mike Palindrome and Laurie Frankel) | My Last Book with Mary Flannery

Guilty pleasures! We use the phrase all the time, but what does it really mean? Can rea...

73 minutes
Nov 27, 2024

654 Loving (and Reclaiming) Sylvia Plath (with Emily Van Duyne)

Troubled patron saint of confessional poetry? Quintessential literary sad girl? Genius ...

74 minutes
Nov 25, 2024

653 J.D. Salinger

He's best known as the author of The Catcher in the Rye, one of the great publishing an...

71 minutes
Nov 21, 2024

652 Writing a Comic Novel (with Charles Baxter) | My Last Book with Bill Eville

Jacke talks to award-winning novelist and short story writer Charles Baxter about his n...

70 minutes
Nov 18, 2024

651 Joseph Campbell and the Hero's Journey | The Heroine's Labyrinth (with Douglas Burton) | My Last Book with Douglas Burton

In 1949, Joseph Campbell's Hero with a Thousand Faces posited the existence of a "monom...

82 minutes
Nov 14, 2024

650 Dante's Divine Comedy (with Joseph Luzzi)

Written in the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy has been an essential compo...

66 minutes
Nov 11, 2024

649 Mind and Media in the Enlightenment (with Collin Jennings) | Mike Recommends A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway | My Last Book with David L. Cooper

It's a Literary Feast Day at the History of Literature Podcast! First, Jacke talks to o...

74 minutes
Nov 07, 2024

648 Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls (with Alex Vernon) | My Last Book with Sandra Spanier

Throughout the 1930s, Ernest Hemingway was in the public eye as a journalist, short sto...

65 minutes
Nov 04, 2024

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