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Containing discussions of ten individual Stories, represented by Eight authors, concerning three Modes of the Ideal; the First encapsulating Sketches of the Mad Scientist, pursued thither in Grains granulating on the Gradient from the Coarse to the Refined; the Second presenting an Understanding and an Excitement of Sound, Music, Acoustics and Art; and the Third in the preaching of Doomsday in the Russian Orthodox tradition, in which a passionate Defense of the Character of Constance Garnett is offered by one of the Hosts (though Whom at this Time we will not say), which may surprize the Listener.
Timestamps:
The First Steps: The Mad Scientist's Miscellany
Introduction, background on Nathaniel Hawthorne (0:00)
Nathaniel Hawthorne - "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" (1837) (16:11)
Nathaniel Hawthorne - "Rappacini's Daughter" (1844) (27:16)
E.T.A. Hoffman - "The Sandman" (1816) (46:38)
Fitz-James O'brien - "The Diamond Lens" (1858) (1:18:46)
The Second Steps: Acoustical Resonations
James Davenport Whelpley - "The Atoms of Chladni" (1860) (1:42:55)
Honoré de Balzac - "Gambara" (1837) (2:12:40)
The Third Steps: Russian Doomsday
Semyon Dyachkov - "A Trip to the Moon in a Wonderful Machine With a Description of the Countries There, Customs and Various Rarities" (1844) (2:42:40)
Dmitry Sigov - "Journey to the Sun and the Planet Mercury and All the Visible and Invisible Worlds " (1832), and "The Talk of Moscow Citizens about the Comet of 1832" (1832) (2:55:54)
Vladimir Odoevsky - "The Year 4338: The Petersburg Letters" (3:15:14)
Bibliography:
Boczkowska, Kornelia. "Space exploration in 20th century American and Soviet literature and art". Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu 2015
By JM, Gretchen and Nate5
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Containing discussions of ten individual Stories, represented by Eight authors, concerning three Modes of the Ideal; the First encapsulating Sketches of the Mad Scientist, pursued thither in Grains granulating on the Gradient from the Coarse to the Refined; the Second presenting an Understanding and an Excitement of Sound, Music, Acoustics and Art; and the Third in the preaching of Doomsday in the Russian Orthodox tradition, in which a passionate Defense of the Character of Constance Garnett is offered by one of the Hosts (though Whom at this Time we will not say), which may surprize the Listener.
Timestamps:
The First Steps: The Mad Scientist's Miscellany
Introduction, background on Nathaniel Hawthorne (0:00)
Nathaniel Hawthorne - "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" (1837) (16:11)
Nathaniel Hawthorne - "Rappacini's Daughter" (1844) (27:16)
E.T.A. Hoffman - "The Sandman" (1816) (46:38)
Fitz-James O'brien - "The Diamond Lens" (1858) (1:18:46)
The Second Steps: Acoustical Resonations
James Davenport Whelpley - "The Atoms of Chladni" (1860) (1:42:55)
Honoré de Balzac - "Gambara" (1837) (2:12:40)
The Third Steps: Russian Doomsday
Semyon Dyachkov - "A Trip to the Moon in a Wonderful Machine With a Description of the Countries There, Customs and Various Rarities" (1844) (2:42:40)
Dmitry Sigov - "Journey to the Sun and the Planet Mercury and All the Visible and Invisible Worlds " (1832), and "The Talk of Moscow Citizens about the Comet of 1832" (1832) (2:55:54)
Vladimir Odoevsky - "The Year 4338: The Petersburg Letters" (3:15:14)
Bibliography:
Boczkowska, Kornelia. "Space exploration in 20th century American and Soviet literature and art". Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu 2015

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