Finding the Lit

By Finding Literature

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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, wit... more

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The podcast currently has 56 episodes available.

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May 04, 2025 Episode 55 - Animal Farm, by George Orwell, Chapter 3, "Four legs good, two legs baa-baa'd"
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 religious fundamentalism
37:18-Political control of language and the workplace
47:39-George Orwell's 1984 and connections to Animal Farm
51:01-Closing thoughts
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55min
April 22, 2025 Episode 54- Animal Farm, by George Orwell, "All animals are equal" - Chapter 2
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 stories growing up reading Animal Farm
47:45-Animal Farm & Political Philosophy
54:38-Closing thoughts
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56min
April 14, 2025 Episode 53 - Animal Farm, by George Orwell, "Who knew animals could impose tariffs?" - Chapter 1
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

Timestamps:

00:00-Introduction

01:44-Our previous experience with Animal Farm

09:22-Context, George Orwell and compositional history

12:31-Things to know if you are new to Animal Farm

14:07-Chapter 1 of Animal Farm reading

31:26-Political discussion of Chapter 1

47:25-A brief history of Communism

51:22-Literary analysis of Animal Farm & closing thoughts
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1h 1min
April 08, 2025 Episode 52 - On the early history of New Brunswick, Canada "The rivers of the Maritimes" by M.H Perley
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 wartimes
17:51-The history of Canada & Pacifism
22:02-Finnish, Canadian and British education systems

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31min
March 31, 2025 Episode 51 - On the early history of New Brunswick, Canada. "The history of majorvilles and minorvilles" by M.H Perley
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-Context before section reading starts
11:10-Section 1 of "...history of New Brunswick"
12:49-Discussion of Section 1
17:32-Section 2
19:32-Discussion of phonetics (pronunciations)
22:20-Canadiana history25:36-Section 3
26:32-Ending discussion
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36min
March 25, 2025 Episode 50 - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S Eliot, "Like a poem etherised upon a table" - Poem Discussion
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-Applying the poem to today's time

18:46-What reading T.S Eliot's poetry feels like

20:36-Our personal approaches to writing poems

25:22-20th Century modernism

29:21-Closing thoughts

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/44212/the-love-song-of-j-alfred-prufrock
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35min
March 19, 2025 Episode 49 - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, by T.S. Eliot, "T.S. Eliot needs no introduction."
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
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9min
March 11, 2025 Episode 48 - Book 9 of The Odyssey continued, by Homer, using Alexander Popes translation, "Close encounters of the Cyclops kind."
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-Ending section of Cyclops
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24min
March 03, 2025 Episode 47 - Book 9 of The Odyssey continued, by Homer, using Alexander Popes translation, "Cyclops's' and the blind men that write them."
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 and next section
10:12-Literary discussion, scene setting & language
14:40-Homer's Blindness
16:10-Section 3 of Cyclops
20:30-Closing thoughts
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25min
February 25, 2025 Episode 46 - Book 9 of The Odyssey, by Homer, using Alexander Popes translation, "The archetypal story and the transition from oral to writ word.""
Join Adrian and Nathan for the first portion of our discussion of Book 9 of The Odyssey by Homer, using Alexander Popes translation. We discuss the structure of one of the original stories, and discuss how different a performed Odyssey would be from written accounts.

00:00-Introduction
04:04-Book 9 begins
06:41-Discussion of The Odyssey's structure
11:28-Odysseus sailing through storms
15:32-The Lotus Eaters
19:48-How the oral tradition of stories worked
25:11-Closing thoughts
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28min

FAQs about Finding the Lit:

How many episodes does Finding the Lit have?

The podcast currently has 56 episodes available.