Paideia Today, Season Four, Episode Nine, Kafka
Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century li...
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Paideia Today is a podcast in which Dr. Scott Masson and Dr. Bill Friesen, professors of English, discuss the great works of western literature. We do so from a now largely lost classical perspective, attempting to illustrate why 2800 years of the greatest thinkers valued these works above all others as keys to understanding the human condition.
Paideia Today, Season Four, Episode Eight, Flannery O'Connor
Today's episode focuses on Flannery O'Connor (1925–64), an American writer famed for her 'southern Gothic' style. We will read O'Connor as a Christia...
Paideia Today, Season Four, Episode Seven, George Orwell
In today's episode of Paideia Today, we look at the famed British novelist George Orwell (1903-50), whose work is so harrowing the adjective Orwellian...
Paideia Today, Season Four, Episode Six, W.B. Yeats
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, prose writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. We spend the ...
Paideia Today, Season Four, Episode Five, W.H. Auden
W.H. Auden (1907 –1973) is one of the great poets of the twentieth century. Some regard him as a lesser poet to Yeats and Eliot - we discuss that her...
Paideia Today, Season Four, Episode Four, T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot has been embraced as a great poet on both sides of the Atlantic. Born in the United States, Eliot emigrated to England and remained there....
Paideia Today, Season Four, Episode Three, Conrad
Joseph Conrad is an extraordinary figure, not least because he wrote his novels in his second language. His novella Heart of Darkness is justly famou...
Paideia Today, Season Four, Episode Two, Thomas Hardy and A.E. Housman
Episode 2 of Season four again sets the foundation for the Modernist movement, looking at the two superb poetic craftsman, Thomas Hardy and A.E. Housm...
Paideia Today, Season Four, Episode One, Wilde
Season 4 of Paideia Today begins with the Irish writer Oscar Wilde. Wilde initiates literary modernism, which in turn sows the seeds of a sort of pos...
Paideia Today, Season Three, Episdoe Fourteen, Tolstoy
For the conclusion of season 3 of Paideia Today we look at the Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy. Tolstoy, like Dostoevsky, engages with the modern aliena...