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Critical Readings

Arts EN ↓ 330 episodes

Critical Readings examines key literary texts using close reading and critical analysis, and explains these approaches in discussion. Listeners will learn about the texts themselves and about how to approach a text for critical analysis.

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CR Episode 5: Paradise Lost, Book V 15.07.2019 1:02:09

Clinton and Dr. Cooper examine the fifth book of John Milton's Paradise Lost, with a particular focus on Milton's Arian Christology and whether Satan is a reactionary against a revolutionary God who is rhizomatic in the sense of Deleuze and Guattari. Continue reading

CR Episode 4: Paradise Lost, Book IV 08.07.2019 1:15:31

The panel examines John Milton's prosody (particularly in the light of Dr. Johnson's comments) and reflects upon his troublesome Christology and potentially Arian leanings, before proffering the merest hint of a speculation about Milton's Mariology. Continue reading

CR Episode 3: Paradise Lost, Book III 01.07.2019 1:10:31

The panel discusses the third book of John Milton's Paradise Lost, with special attention on aspects including the ambiguously diabolical imagery of the opening, and Milton's philosophical approaches to the problem of evil, free will, and predestination. Continue reading

CR Episode 2: Paradise Lost, Book II 24.06.2019 1:11:20

The panel discusses Book II of John Milton's Paradise Lost, with a focus on the fallen angels as an inversion of divine imagery, the politics and plots of Pandaemonium, the natures of Sin and Death, and a possible instance of Miltonian heresy. Continue reading

CR Episode 1: Paradise Lost, Book I 17.06.2019 1:00:48

In the first episode of Critical Readings, the panel begins a twelve-week discussion of Milton's Paradise Lost, with discussion focused on the poem's nature as an epic and the apparent ideological conflict between Milton's politics and his protagonist. and Continue reading