How To Love Lit Podcast

Frankenstein - Episode #2 - The narrative framework and the birth of the monster!   Hi, I’m Christy Shriver.   And I’m Garry Shriver- and this is the How to Love Lit Podcast.  This is our second episode in our discussion of Mary Shelley and her great work, Frankenstein.  Last week we spent almost the  entire time talking sbout Mary Shelley’s fascinating life, and we didn’t even get past the age of...

Frankenstein-Episode #1 - Meet Mary Shelley and her classic gothic novel!   Hi, I’m Chisty Shriver   And I’m Garry Shriver- and today we are starting our discussion of one of the most beloved if not THE most beloved gothic novel in the world.  Of course, we were always going to analyze this book, but I have to admit that we moved up the timetable because we’ve had such a large number of requests. ...

John Keats-Ode On A Grecian Urn - Poetry Supplement!   Hi, I’m Christy Shiver.   And I’m Garry Shriver and this is the How to Love lit Podcast.  This week- by way of Segway between  Sophocles and the Greek theater  - to our next book the great romantic//gothic novel by Mary Shelley, Frankenstein   -  we have chosen the feature a Romantic take on the Greeks- Ode ON a Grecian Urn by John Keats- not...

The Easter episode. The archetypes, history and literary importance of Easter.   Hi, This is Christy Shriver   And this is Garry Shriver, and this is the How to Love Lit podcast.  If you are listening to this in real time, this is the week of Easter 2020- and what a crazy year this has been.  The Kansas City Chiefs, my hometown team finally won the Superbowl after 50 years, we started our hard cor...

Antigone Episode #2 - Tragedy, Honor, Wisdom And The End Of All Things   2Hi, I’m Christy Shriver.   And I’m Garry Shriver and this is the how to love lit podcast.  We are working our way through Sophocles’ greatest hits!!  Of all the plays he wrote, as we discussed last week, we only have seven (which I guess isn’t that surprising since they were written in the 400’s bc)- but of those his Oedipus...

Antigone Episode #1 - Drama, death, higher law, family issues and more death   2Hi, I’m Christy Shriver.   And I’m Garry Shriver and this is the how to love lit podcast.  We are working our way through Sophocles’ greatest hits!!  Of all the plays he wrote, as we discussed last week, we only have seven (which I guess isn’t that surprising since they were written in the 400’s bc)- but of those his O...

Oedipus Rex - Episode #3- The Reveal, The Conclusion, Sigmund Freud, and how it all goes together!   Hi, I’m Christy Shriver.    I’m Garry Shriver, and this is the how to love lit podcast.  Today we wrap up our discussion of what Aristotle calls the greatest of all plays.  Of course, although I wouldn’t have said this a few years ago, I think this may be truer than even Aristotle knew.  It’s amazi...

Oedipus Rex - Episode #2 - Irony, Tragedy, Oracles, Flaws And More!   Hello, I’m Christy Shriver.   I’m Garry Shriver and this is the How to Love lit Podcast.  This is the second episode in our series on the two most popular works by the Greek playwright Sophocles.  Last week, we traveled back the couple thousand years and across the ocean to Greece and tried to understand a little bit about the c...

Oedipus Rex - Episode #1 - The philosophy, the predicaments, the purpose in Greek Theater   Hi, I’m Christy Shriver.   And I’m Garry Shriver and this is the How to Love Lit Podcast.  Today, we’re venturing back into drama and when I say back- I mean way way back- all the way to 496bc  give or take a few years to Athens Greece where we will meet one of the most famous playwrights of all time- Sopho...

Animal Farm - Short Story Supplement - Anton Chekov   Hi, My name is Christy Shriver.   And my name is Garry Shriver, and this is the How to Love lit Podcast.  Today we are going to take a very small dip into the vast sea of what has been called the Golden age of Russian literature.  It’s going to be an unusual episode today because we’re going to try to tackle a different genre .  We’ve done nove...

Animal Farm Episode #4 - The conclusion of Orwell's satirical expose on the true nature of totalitarianism!   Hi, I’m Christy Shriver.   And I’m Garry Shriver and this is the How to love lit podcast.  Today we will wrap up our  discussion of George Orwell’s timeless warning against totalitarianism through the novella Animal Farm.  In Week One, we met Orwell and looked at his life and how his ideas...

Animal Farm - Episode #3 - Propaganda - the art of creating alternative reality - and dictatorships!   Script 3- Animal Farm   HI, I’m Christy Shriver.    I’m Garry Shriver, and this is the How to Love Lit Podcast.  We are on episode 3 of Orwell’s classic fairy story- in quotations- or allegorical novella Animal Farm.  And although the book is extremely short, it is compact and full of political s...

Animal Farm - Episode #2 - Meet the characters of Animal Farm and dive into lots of political allegory!   Hi, this is Christy Shriver.   This is Garry Shriver, and this is the How to Love Lit Podcast.  This is the second episode in the series where we look at George Orwell and his political ideology through the classic and beloved novella and allegory Animal Farm.   Last week, we discussed the lif...

Animal Farm - Episode #1 - Meet George Orwell and the array of world forces that produced this classic work!   Hi, I’m Christy Shriver.   And I’m Garry Shriver, and this is the How to Love Lit Podcast.  Today we start another political tale- this time instead of a play written two-thousand years, ago, we will discuss a novel, well officially it’s a novel, but its author called it a fairy-tale, alb...

Julius Caesar - Episode #5 - The ghost, the battle, the conclusion! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Julius Caesar Episode #4 - How to commit murder while claiming to be noble! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Julius Caesar Episode #3 - The coup, the fatal flaws of Brutus and the point of no return! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Julius Caesar - Episode #2 - "Delusions of grandeur - do they bring destruction?" Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Julius Caesar - Episode #1 - Meet Shakespeare and Caesar - All In The Same Episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Alchemist Poetry Supplement - Chilean Poet Pablo Neruda! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The conclusion and summary of Steinbeck's classic work! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Archetypes, foreshadowing and literary analogies abound in this episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Meet the main characters of the book in episode 2. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode we introduce Nobel and Pulitzer prize winning author John Steinbeck and his classic novel Of Mice And Men. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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