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Sex in Literature
Watch podcast. This lecture, given in June 2015 at the How The Light Gets In (Institute of Arts and Ideas)...
Victorians All Around Us
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Approaching the Victorians
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The Narrator Part 2
Watch podcast In the second half of this short introduction to Narrators I consider some of the complexities that can...
The Narrator Part 1
Watch podcast. This is a brief introduction to the concept of the 'Narrator' in literature. In this first of its two...
Sex in Victorian Literature
Watch podcast The Victorians were not only caricatured as prudes by the modernists who followed them, but were known...
Reading
Watch Podcast When we 'read' a book, a lecture, a situation, or a face, are we doing the same thing? How much do these...
Chapters
Watch Podcast Chapters are deep in the structure of most prose works, doing much of the supporting and some of the...
Unreliable Narrators
Watch Podcast Narrators are almost all we have to go on – so how can we know when they are being unreliable? This...
Sebastian Faulks’s ‘A Week in December’
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Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnet 88’
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A.D. Miller’s ‘Snowdrops’
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Julian Barnes’s ‘A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters’
Watch Podcast Barnes's title is provocative; it announces that this is not in fact a history, but a novel. The novel...
Samuel Beckett’s ‘Breath’
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Ian McEwan’s ‘Atonement’
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Pat Barker’s ‘Regeneration’
Watch Podcast Regeneration follows the efforts of a First World War psychiatric doctor to uncover the triggers of his...