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Lady Chatterley’s Lover boring! Bah! Let each decide for himself I say!
Thanks for the podcast, it led me to read Silas Marner for the first time, what a treat! Les Misérables is another book about a (non biological) father - daughter relationship, and its redemptive powers.
I suppose we need to bear in mind (ref the Goliath footnote) that English novels are read in many different cultures around the world, and in multicultural societies too, of course, and that footnotes make them more accessible.
I wasn’t rooting for Pakhom: 1) ”he would swear at his family and beat them” and 2) he was aware that his land acquisition was leaving other peasants to struggle because ”they were short of land”. This was clear from page 5 and should be guiding one’s reading (translation by Ronald Wilks, 1993).
Ouch, these guys aren’t qualified to discuss Derrida I’m afraid.
Excellent, thank you. Really sets me up for the final section of the book.
I like this podcast trio, but they utterly fail to grasp the achievement of Richardson in ’Clarissa’ (which they also keep mistakenly referring to as ’Pamela’). ’Clarissa’ uses the letter form to build up a kaleidoscopic notion of truth based on competing points of view, a very modern technique, in fact. It can also be read as a spiritual work, a charting of spiritual development, which I thought should have appealed to these podcasters.
l love learning from you guys. l plan to use your resources for my high schoolers.
You guys mentioned the Brothers K, that's all I needed to leave a good review!! But really, thanks for putting this wonderful content out there for us.
After homeschooling for more than ten years, I finally have a satisfactory answer to reading myths! I'm am deeply enjoying these conversations!
Our Literary group is reading Gaudy Night and I was thrilled to see you all did podcasts for this novel. It’s a great help to listen to you all and have insight into things to notice and appreciate.
Looking forward to re-reading Gaudy Night (honestly don’t remember much though it was only a few years ago!)
Loved it