Professing Literature

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ulysses.  Homer tells of how the mighty king of Ithaca arrived home after twenty years of war and wandering.  However, in Tennyson’s monologue, one of the best-loved poems of the nineteenth century, we hear that he is restless and longs for the companionship and adventure that had come to define him.

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Theme Music: "Nobility" by Wicked Cinema

Opening Passage Music: "Lord of the Dead" by CJ-0

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Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, Chapter 12.  Late on a winter afternoon a young woman is walking from the country manor where she works toward the neighbouring village.  Jane Eyre has known great sadness.  She is poor and friendless but also strong and wise, possessed of high integrity and deep faith.  When she shortly encounters a strange man on horseback the meeting will change her, but it will change him even more.

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Theme Music: "Nobility" by Wicked Cinema

Opening Passage Music: "Thoughts in A Minor" by Ian Kelosky

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St. Luke’s Gospel 8:40-56.  In this episode Professing Literature tackles the New Testament.  We discuss two intertwined miracle stories in Luke’s Gospel:  a healing and a resurrection.  Though the stories are short and seemingly simple Luke artfully deploys a handful of key details to help us understand the character of Jesus and the nature of his mission.

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Theme Music: "Nobility" by Wicked Cinema

Opening Passage Music: "From the North" by Wicked Cinema

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David and Eric look back over the first series (episodes 1-10) of Professing Literature and David answers some listener questions. We got a great response from listeners and some great questions about episodes 1-10.

David also gives a few clues as to what's coming in the next series of episodes (Eric presses him on when there will be more Macbeth!).

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Theme Music: "Nobility" by Wicked Cinema

Opening Passage Music: "An Afternoon at the Versailles" by Cercles Nouvelles

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act Four, Scene One. When four young aristocrats and a weaver spend a night in the forest outside of Athens they cross into the world of the faeries. The next morning they struggle to understand what happened.

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Theme Music: "Nobility" by Wicked Cinema

Opening Passage Music: "An Afternoon at the Versailles" by Cercles Nouvelles

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T. S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (Part Two).  The conclusion of our discussion of “Prufrock,” Eliot’s seminal exploration of modern alienation.  

Professing Literature is officially back! Thanks for your patience during our hiatus. We've got more episodes coming. Thanks so much for your support!

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Theme Music: "Nobility" by Wicked Cinema

Opening Passage Music: “A Short Story”  by Andrea Colella

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T. S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (Part One).  This is the first of two episodes devoted to one of the most famous poems of the twentieth century, wherein Eliot’s enigmatic speaker invites us on an evening stroll through his memories, his fears and his inhibitions.  

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Theme Music: "Nobility" by Wicked Cinema

Opening Passage Music: “If My Companion” by John Dowland, performed by Jon Sayles

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Beowulf.  A shining young warrior has crossed the water and saved the Danish people from a dreadful monster and his scarcely less dreadful mother.  As the Danes honour Beowulf with feasting, gifts and music their aged king offers him some counsel.  Hrothgar has ruled the Danes for fifty years, in times of triumph and adversity, and he wants to make sure his young friend can profit from his own hard-won wisdom. 

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Theme Music: "Nobility" by Wicked Cinema

Opening Passage Music: "The White Birch" by Moorland Songs

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A quick message from David about the podcast and new episodes that will be available soon. Thanks for listening everyone! 

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J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 11.  Jane Gallagher had been the sort of girl who kept her kings in the back row.  Is she still?  As sixteen-year-old Holden Caulfield unravels over the course of a few days in Manhattan his thoughts often return to Jane, who haunts his memory and is connected to so many of his most pressing obsessions:  sex, vulnerability, change and authenticity.  

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