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Hardcore Literature Lecture Series
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📔Contents Page: cutt.ly/CmNhRY3
🎖️ War and Peace: cutt.ly/U3nzGma
🎭 Shakespeare Project: cutt.ly/B3nxHH7
🐳 Moby Dick: cutt.ly/K3nzVKf
☄️ Blood Meridian: cutt.ly/P3nz6Qp
🍂 Wuthering Heights: cutt.ly/N3nxxYt
🇮🇪 Ulysses: cutt.ly/x3nxQmN
🚂 Anna Karenina: cutt.ly/vmNhAWv
💀 Crime and Punishment: cutt.ly/rmNhFt5
⚓ Persuasion: cutt.ly/amNhX7b
☕ In Search of Lost Time: cutt.ly/5mNh8oD
⚔️ The Hero’s Journey: cutt.ly/UmNjrE3
🌸 Siddharta: cutt.ly/YmNjuzi
🎠 Don Quixote: cutt.ly/cmNjoK4
❤️Shakespeare’s Sonnets: cutt.ly/nmNlW7V
🇫🇷 Les Misérables: cutt.ly/J3YixoA
🕯️ The Turn of the Screw: cutt.ly/nToAQQ3
🖋️ Dickens Seasonal Read: cutt.ly/9ToAybt
📖 Middlemarch Serial Reading: tinyurl.com/45rv965c
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0:00 thank you for reading along
0:30 how to read to improve our lives?
4:30 what books have you reread the most?
5:07 most difficult books you’ve read?
6:00 your 5 top quotes/ideas from your reading?
13:00 are you reading McCarthy’s ‘The Passenger’?
14:14 what 3 books would you give to Shakespeare?
16:20 who is your favourite character, and why?
17:39 what are you favourite spiritual works?
19:31 appreciating a really lovely message
20:04 lesser known 19th century female novelists?
22:28 can you talk about reading with the seasons?
24:27 if you could read a book again for the first time?
24:44 balancing science and the humanities?
28:55 appreciating another lovely comment
29:08 how does the reading experience differ as we age?
31:52 objectively best work in the English language?
32:49 how will you answer all of these questions?
33:10 which canonical book did you not finish?
33:47 how does music complement your reading?
39:09 modern books you’ve added to your canon?
40:51 introducing literary themes to young readers?
42:09 how to read the eastern canon?
46:16 how to read Finnegans Wake?
48:00 your thoughts on fantasy?
48:55 favourite stories that aren’t books?
49:45 favourite films adaptations of books?
51:50 best William Golding novels?
52:03 discerning subjective vs objective worth?
54:37 thoughts on Barthes’ death of the author?
56:32 how do you respond to snobbery?
57:52 tips for finding advanced essay topics?
59:31 do you like Sir Walter Scott?
59:57 recommended non-fiction literary works?
1:00:30 any plans for author biographies?
1:01:22 is dramaturgy alive? And favourite playwrights?
1:03:25 have you learnt a language to read its literature?
1:04:37 how do you feel about translations?
1:05:20 have we exhausted Shakespeare analysis?
1:05:58 tips for managing test-taking anxiety?
1:07:47 Is there a poem that has impacted your life?
1:08:03 how does running relate to reading?
1:10:47 what is your favourite poem?
1:11:17 any plans to write your own book?
1:11:25 best time to join the book club?
1:11:59 what George Eliot have you read?
1:12:17 favourite contemporary writers?
1:12:30 what would you like to contribute to criticism?
1:12:39 why do you love Moby Dick?
1:13:57 your go-to stories when the world gets you down?
1:14:16 recommended novel for rural male students?
1:14:59 a heartfelt thank you to you all