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Welcome to Reading Rooney: An Exercise in Collaborative Scholarship. This podcast integrates the voices of English literary scholars, graduate students, and general readers as we openly discuss, celebrate, and critique the work of author Sally Rooney. Rooney's oeuvre has gained mass popularity worldwide, but has equally been celebrated as a feat of literary fiction by scholars and critics; this combination of popularity and prestige makes Rooney’s novels a productive site for critical engagement among different readers. Thank you for being here!
Instagram: @readingrooney
Instagram: @readingrooney
Update frequency:
every 4 days
Average audio length:
41 minutes
English
Canada
8 episodes
since March 28, 2022
episodic
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In this episode I am joined by Professor Alexander Manshel to break down some of the defining characteristics of the literary middlebrow, millennial fiction, and the rise of literary TV adaptations. We also explore the renewed public interest in the identity of the author, and how the belief that R…
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What is "the millennial condition", and why does it evoke "malaise"? What do these terms even mean? If anxiety is a normal and expected psychological and physiological reaction to exploitative labour conditions, hustle culture, and the looming threat of climate change, what is the point of patholog…
No, but really, what the heck is historical materialism? Professor Sandeep Banerjee from McGill University joins me to break down the basics of Marxist Theory (better known as historical materialism), and dialectics. Sally Rooney is a self-proclaimed Marxist, and there has been a lot of buzz about …
Valentina Puentes Ardila joins me in this episode to think through the role of BDSM in Normal People and Beautiful World, Where Are You. We explore how the personal is political, and how larger structures of patriarchy, socioeconomic class, and labour impact how we have sex and what we desire. …
Genee Latreille, an avid reader, communications strategist, and mother of two children joins me in this episode to meditate on friendship, solitude, and the power of love that survives both time and distance in all of Rooney's novels.
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In this episode, Emily Farmer complicates the concept of the "frenemy", typically understood as a strictly oppositional/negational relationship, to a more holistic understanding of the term as something relational and mutually productive. She coins the term "frenmity" (a combination of 'friend' and…
In this episode, I am joined by Tabitha Sparks, a professor of English at McGill University and the Associate Dean of Graduate Studies in the Faculty of Arts. We chat about feminist narratology, the autofictional pressures faced by female authors, and the appeal of complex male characters in Rooney…
In this episode, PhD candidate Marie Trotter and I find connections between the discourse of the infamous "crisis in the humanities" and Alice's authorial identity crisis in Beautiful World, Where Are You (2021). We also explore themes of spirituality, religion, and the search for meaning in the no…
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