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Finding the lit is about rediscovering the joy of reading books with curiosity and fun combined. Each episode goes through a key work of in the canon of literary history, with literary close readings and jokes thrown along the way.
Join Adrian and Nathan on Finding the Lit: taking the serious topic of literature with a grain of salt. We learn, we laugh, but most importantly: we're Finding the Lit.
Finding the lit is about rediscovering the joy of reading books with curiosity and fun combined. Each episode goes through a key work of in the canon of literary history, with literary close readings and jokes thrown along the way.
Join Adrian and Nathan on Finding the Lit: taking the serious topic of literature with a grain of salt. We learn, we laugh, but most importantly: we're Finding the Lit.
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
52 minutes
English
United States
57 episodes
since June 29, 2024
episodic
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Why are they cutting down the trees? In our first guest episode listen in to Anthony, Nathan and Adrian discuss Dr Seuss and one of his whimsical children's stories; The Lorax. A story about hyperconsumerism, environmental consciousness and linguistic playfulness. A discussion and full reading of t…
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We carry on with Chapter 3, addressing how the animals learn language, history as a broken wheel that keeps turning and some background insight from Orwell's 1984.
Timestamps:
00:00-Introduction
06:00-Chapter reading begins
20:08-Discussion of Chapter 3
23:59-Animal Farm in the context of religi…
A continuation of our commentary and reading of George Orwell's Animal Farm
Timestamps
00:00-Introduction
03:00-Chapter 2 begins
10:00-Brief discussion on Chapter 2 so far
15:28-Chapter 2 continues
24:35-Discussion of Chapter 2 - Religion
30:54-Literary analysis of Chapter 2
32:44-Our personal sto…
Join Nathan and Adrian as we explore George Orwell's political fable of pigs, horses, dogs, cats, rats and...political rebellion. We explore our own background on reading Animal Farm, George Orwell's authorship and how Animal Farm can be applied to today.
Episode 53 - Animal Farm, Chapter 1
Time…
Episode 52 - On the early history of New Brunswick, Canada - Part 2
00:00-Introduction & first section
02:28-Discussion - St John's River & Miramichi River
06:05: Where and what is St Ann's Point?
08:46:How non-fiction is composed
12:28-Section 2 reading
15:58-The Canadian colonies during …
Join Nathan and Adrian on our first non-fiction episode. We discuss a historical account from 1862, how this affected the Maritime province of New Brunswick, and various ways in which we as audiences read and interpret history.
Timestamps:
00:00-Introduction
02:21-Where is New Brunswick?
08:02-C…
Join Nathan and Adrian as we discuss The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S Eliot. We discuss rhyme, how the poem applies to today and T.S Eliot's approach to composing poems.
00:00-Introduction
03:45-Social anxiety as a theme of the poem
09:45-On learning "etiquette"
11:21-Appl…
Join Adrian and Nathan for the poem reading of The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot. Adrian does a wonderful reading and we continue the discussion of it in the next episode.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/44212/the-love-song-of-j-alfred-prufrock
Join Adrian and Nathan for the third and final portion of our discussion of Book 9 of The Odyssey by Homer, using Alexander Popes translation. We finish our discussion on the land of the cyclops, and the creature as a character.
00:00-Introduction
07:42-Discussion of the Cyclops' scene
12:52-Endin…
Join Adrian and Nathan for the second portion of our discussion of Book 9 of The Odyssey by Homer, using Alexander Popes translation. We discuss the land of the cyclops, the structure of this portion of the Odyssey, and our thoughts on the piece as a whole.
00:00-Introduction
04:50-Story overview a…
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