Toni Morrison's Song Of Solomon (1977) | 20th Century American Literature
May 4, 20261h 4m0
Thomas, Katrina & Mia discuss Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon.
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The Literature Humanities Radio Hour on WKCR 89.9FM: Literary Classics in Conversation
Hosted by thomaspreston · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 19 episodes
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About this podcast
Ever wanted to talk about the “classics” in a relaxed, accessible setting? This podcast brings together Columbia University Core Curriculum lecturers to discuss their favorite moments from the texts we read in class. Each year, roughly 1,800 students work through the same sequence of literary classics, from Ancient Mesopotamia to Toni Morrison. We follow that arc in conversation.Hosted by WKCR 89.9 FM radio host and Core lecturer Thomas, with colleagues Katrina, Larry, and a rotating group of others. We’re not experts, our students aren’t experts, and nor do you need to be. Recorded live.
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thomaspreston hosts The Literature Humanities Radio Hour on WKCR 89.9FM: Literary Classics in Conversation, a arts show with 19 episodes published.
Recent episodes
Our AI reads these to draft pitchesVirginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse (1927) | Early 20th Century Modernist Literature
May 2, 20261h 3m0
Thomas, Katrina and Alec discuss Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse, published 1927.
Show notesJane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (1813) | 19th Century Realist Literature
Apr 30, 202658m0
Thomas, Katrina & Hamid join to discuss Jane Austen's "half satire, half romance" novel Pride & Prejudice. Their conversation begins at the end, considering who the novel's unabashedly "happy ending" is for, and what lov
Show notesSor Juana | Early 17th Century Proto-Feminist Poetry?
Apr 27, 20261h 0m0
Thomas, Katrina & Tamara discuss the poetry of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, a 17th Century Mexican literary figure who swore off the life of the court (and the requirements to marry) in order to preserve her intellectual i
Show notesShakespeare's King Lear (1606)
Apr 15, 20261h 1m0
Thomas, Larry & Katrina spend a good half an hour discussing the opening scene of King Lear and the mad king's division of his kingdom among his three daughters, all the while discussing the problems of intrigue, inherit
Show notesDante's Inferno | The Divine Comedy (1321-ish)
Mar 18, 202659m0
Thomas, Katrina & Larry join to discuss Dante Alighieri's Inferno, published after Dante's exile from Florence in the early 13th Century. They discuss the text's allegorical and richly intertextual opening passages, the
Show notesIbn Arabi | 13th Century Mystical Sufi Lyric
Mar 10, 202659m0
Thomas, Katrina & Larry meet to discuss Ibn Arabi's Translator of Desires, a collection of 61 poems that propose a theological concept of the Divine that sees its collapse into the Beloved and the natural world. Born in
Show notesAugustine's Confessions | Autobiography & Theological Philosophy (397-400CE)
Mar 1, 20261h 1m0
Thomas, Larry & Katrina grapple with Augustine's Confessions - a text which combines highly stylized autobiographical writing with philosophical meditations on the the divine, the presence of evil in the world, and how o
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Claudia Rankine's Citizen (2014): An American Lyric
Jan 29, 202659m0
Thomas Preston is joined by colleagues Katrina & Larry to discuss the first text on the Spring syllabus, Claudia Rankine’s Citizen (2014), an award-winning, essayistic-poetic work that “recounts mounting racial aggressio
Show notesThe Gospels of Luke & John | New Testament Accounts of Jesus' Life
Dec 8, 20251h 0m0
Thomas & Katrina are joined by Nicholas Dames, Chair of Literature Humanities, to discuss the Gospels of Luke & John through the lens of literary study.
Show notesVergil's Aeneid | The Story of Rome's Founding
Dec 4, 202558m0
Thomas, Katrina and Larry are joined by Geoff to discuss their favorite bits of an Aeneid: its strange ambiguity vis-a-vis its own political project, Aeneas as a less than ideal hero, a paranoid stance regarding excessiv
Show notesPlato's Symposium | Ancient Greek Literature / Philosophy
Nov 13, 20251h 0m0
Larry takes Thomas & Katrina on a journey through Plato's Symposium, a literary and philosophical work presenting a series of speeches on the nature of love, reading the Symposium through lens of Socrates' execution in 3
Show notesAeschylus' Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides | Ancient Greek Tragedy
Nov 6, 20251h 0m0
Thomas, Larry and Katrina discuss the story of Agamemnon's bloody return home: his death in the bathtub at the hands of his wife, Clytaemestra; his wife's death at the hands of HER OWN SON ORESTES; and the eventual estab
Show notesHomer's Odyssey Pt II | Ancient Greek Epic Poetry
Nov 3, 202548m0
Thomas, Katrina, Larry & Rosalie round off their conversation on Emily Wilson's translation of Homer's Odyssey
Show notesHomer's Odyssey Pt I | Ancient Greek Epic Poetry
Oct 30, 202559m0
Thomas, Larry and Katrina are joined by Rosalie Stoner (Classics) to discuss Homer's The Odyssey, the Emily Wilson translation. This text tells the story of Odysseus' journey home and the reclamation of his household, an
Show notesIliad Pt 2 & Sappho's Fragments | Ancient Greek Epic & Lyric Poetry
Oct 16, 20251h 0m0
Thomas, Katrina and Larry are joined by Nadrah Mohammed to discuss the end of the Iliad along with Sappho's fragments.
Show notesHomer's Iliad Part 1 | Ancient Greek Epic Poetry
Oct 12, 20251h 1mEp. 30
Thomas Preston is joined by Katrina Dzyak and Larry Jackson to discuss the Iliad
Show notesThe Book of Genesis | Ancient Hebrew Creation Myth
Oct 8, 202559mEp. 20
Thomas Preston is joined by Larry Jackson, Katrina Dzyak and Jennifer Rhodes to discuss the Book of Genesis as literature.
Show notesThe Exaltation of Inana & Gilgamesh | Ancient Mesopotamian Literary Works
Sep 24, 202558mEp. 10
Thomas Preston is joined by Katrina Dzyak, Tamara Hache and Geoff Harmsworth to discuss ancient mesopotamian texts
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