Living Literature
Living Literature illuminates great books, chapter by chapter. Read 30 minutes of a literary classic each week, and Dr. Stephen Himes will guide you through the text like a master professor. Season 1: A Christmas Carol. Stave I drops on Tuesday, November 26th, 2024.
Episodes
In this episode, Dr. Himes steps you through Stave I of A Christmas Carol, giving you background and context to get the most out of your reading.
He frames Carol as Scrooge's journey through Purgatory, helping you understand Dickens' interpretation of Christianity through the ideas of Dante. Then he discusses Charles Dickens as a narrator, that his "First Person Omniscient" style wasn't just Dickens' particular style, but how he ...
In October 1843, Friedrich Engels and Charles Dickens were both in Manchester, England, witnessing the worst squalor of the Industrial Revolution. Engels went on to write Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto with his partner Karl Marx, and Dickens looked at the same situation and wrote A Christmas Carol.
Charles Dickens' views on poverty are foundational to understanding modern politics. A close reading of Ebenezer Scrooge w...
Welcome to Episode 1.0 of the Living Literature podcast. After a brief introduction to your podcast host, I will describe how literature does indeed live. It's a story that begins in a high school classroom, then travels to law school, were I first encountered the Originalists and the Living Constitutionalists. Then Charles Dickens convinces me to return to teaching, where I figured out that the Originalists interpret the Consti...
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