128 Episoade

  1. Competing Affections in “The Lion in Winter”

    Publicat: 31.07.2023
  2. Friendship and Honor in “Becket” (1964)

    Publicat: 03.07.2023
  3. Losing Your Head in Alice Munro’s “Carried Away”

    Publicat: 05.06.2023
  4. Time and Taboo in “Back to the Future” (1985)

    Publicat: 16.05.2023
  5. The Violence of Redemption in John Donne’s “Batter My Heart” (Holy Sonnet 14)

    Publicat: 10.04.2023
  6. Mortal Pretensions in John Donne’s “Death Be Not Proud” (Holy Sonnet 10)

    Publicat: 13.03.2023
  7. Trauma and Repetition in Roman Polanski’s “Chinatown” (1974)

    Publicat: 13.02.2023
  8. Better and Bested in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”

    Publicat: 16.01.2023
  9. Pagan Poetics in “Sunday Morning” by Wallace Stevens

    Publicat: 19.12.2022
  10. Production for Use in “His Girl Friday”

    Publicat: 21.11.2022
  11. Post-Doctoral Bedevilment in Christopher Marlowe’s “Dr. Faustus”

    Publicat: 24.10.2022
  12. Fate and Blame in “Long Day’s Journey into Night”

    Publicat: 26.09.2022
  13. Work as Madness in “The Bridge on the River Kwai” (1957)

    Publicat: 09.05.2022
  14. What Falls Upon the Living in James Joyce’s “The Dead”

    Publicat: 11.04.2022
  15. Finding Home in Stephen Spielberg’s “E.T.” (1982)

    Publicat: 14.03.2022
  16. The Power of Calm: Two Wordsworth Sonnets

    Publicat: 28.02.2022
  17. What Nature Betrays: Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” (Part 2)

    Publicat: 14.02.2022
  18. Mother Nature’s Nurture in Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” (Part 1)

    Publicat: 31.01.2022
  19. The Fool Gets Hurt in Fellini’s “La Strada” (1954)

    Publicat: 17.01.2022
  20. False Roles and Fictitious Selves in “The Awakening” by Kate Chopin

    Publicat: 03.01.2022

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Subtext is a book club podcast for readers interested in what the greatest works of the human imagination say about life’s big questions. Each episode, philosopher Wes Alwan and poet Erin O’Luanaigh conduct a close reading of a text or film and co-write an audio essay about it in real time. It’s literary analysis, but in the best sense: we try not overly stuffy and pedantic, but rather focus on unearthing what’s most compelling about great books and movies, and how it is they can touch our lives in such a significant way.

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