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We are always surrounded by stories: movies, TV shows, plays, games, video games, books and even advertisements. So, why do humans tell stories, and what function do stories serve? Our goal is to unra... more
FAQs about Alexander Schmid Podcast:How many episodes does Alexander Schmid Podcast have?The podcast currently has 410 episodes available.
December 16, 2018Night School 026: The Poems of Emily Dickinson Pt. 4In this episode of Night School, Mr. Wesley Schantz and I consider Emily Brontë's "No Coward Soul Is Mine", and Emily Dickinson's "Some keep the Sabbath going to Church – (236)" and "I dwell in Possibility – (466)". We specifically consider (a) the relationship between Dickinson and Brontë's poetry in theme and structure ; (b) the ways in which Dickinson's view of religion may have clashed with norms and been rationalist in its approach, and (c) what the process of building a poem or "house of possibility" entails and brings out in or requires of a reader....more37minPlay
December 14, 2018Homer's "Odyssey" Bks 3-4 Pt. 1In this lecture, we (a) meet the old and wise Nestor and his son Peisistratos In Pylos, (b) venture forward to the land of sadness, Sparta, and meet Menelaos and the beautiful and observant Helen of Argos, and (c) learn the cost of experience and wisdom!...more38minPlay
December 14, 2018Dante's Purgatorio: Cantos 25-33 Pt. 2In this lecture, we consider (a) the entrance of Beatrice and exit of Virgil in the story, (b) the end of the Biblical procession, and (c) a dramatic representation of the corruption of the Church throughout time....more23minPlay
December 14, 2018Night School 025: The Poems of Emily Dickinson Pt. 3In this episode of Night School, Mr. Wesley Schantz and I consider Emily Dickinson's "All overgrown by cunning moss," and recite Emily Brontë's "No Coward Soul Is Mine". We specifically consider (a) the story untying the poem about the death of Charlotte Brontë; (b) the ways poems and perceptions of poets evolve over time, and (c) we recite the poem by Emily Brontë which Emily Dickinson requested be read at her funeral....more27minPlay
December 13, 2018Homer's "Odyssey" Bks 1 and 2In this lecture, we discuss (a) Athene's strategy for helping Odysseus and Telemachos, (b) Zeus' proclamation that man's own "wild recklessness" is often the cause of his own suffering, and (c) observed Telemachos' first disastrous public speech in assembly....more29minPlay
December 13, 2018Dante's Purgatorio: Cantos 25-33 Pt. 1In this lecture, we consider (a) the Terrace of Lust and its relation to chastity, (b) Terrestrial Paradise and how the end is just the beginning, and (c) what is the meaning of the Biblical Procession in Eden/Terrestrial Paradise?...more39minPlay
December 12, 2018Introduction to Homer's "Odyssey"In this lecture, we consider (a) the fate of Agamemnon, (b) the dramatis personae of Homer's "Odyssey", and (c) the theme of "nothing is as it seems"....more33minPlay
December 12, 2018Dante's Purgatorio: Cantos 17-25In this lecture, we consider (a) the terraces of Sloth, Avarice (and prodigality), and gluttony. Specifically, we consider how what sloth, avarice, and gluttony cost, (b) how love poetry may be tied to self-indulgence, and (c) the potential costs of sensual delights to lifetime achievement....more36minPlay
December 12, 2018Night School 024: The Poems of Emily Dickinson Pt. 2In this episode of Night School, Mr. Wes Schantz and I consider Emily Dickinson's "Surgeons must be very careful" and ""Faith" is fine invention". We specifically consider (a) the length and form of the short poems, (b) how a poem is a small manifestation of articulated being, and (c) how "faith" and faith differ in the context of the second poem....more29minPlay
December 11, 2018Conversations at The Leaky Cauldron 003: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Chs. 11-14In this third podcast on the 4th volume in the Harry Potter series, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," Ms. Sarah Miller, Mr. Wes Schantz, and I discuss (a) the Unforgivable Curses and what is so unforgivable about them; (b) number symbolism surrounding threes and fours (trinities and quaternaries) in the text, and (c) what happens once one's view of the world now must reflect the darkness therein?...more1h 8minPlay
FAQs about Alexander Schmid Podcast:How many episodes does Alexander Schmid Podcast have?The podcast currently has 410 episodes available.