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A Recast of ‘The History of Literature’

Amateur enthusiast Jacke Wilson journeys through the history of literature, from ancient epics to contemporary classics. Episodes are not in chronological order and you don't need to start at the beginning - feel free to jump in wherever you like! Find out more at historyofliterature.com and facebook.com/historyofliterature. Support the show by visiting patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/donate. Contact the show at historyofliteraturepodcast@gmail.com.

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Recastable Episodes (721)

1. Episode 0 – Battling the Beast Oct. 10, 2015
2. 1 The Epic of Gilgamesh Oct. 12, 2015
3. 1A – The Discovery of Gilgamesh Oct. 15, 2015
4. RM1 Comedy and Authority Oct. 19, 2015
5. RM2 Tolstoy’s Halloween [A Jacke Wilson Show Encore Episode] Oct. 22, 2015
6. 2 The Hebrew Bible Oct. 26, 2015
7. 2A The Book of Job Oct. 29, 2015
8. RM3 Power and the Law Nov. 2, 2015
9. RM4 Signs and Symbols Nov. 5, 2015
10. 3 Homer Nov. 9, 2015
11. RM5 Gar Discovers a Lost Recording of Walt Whitman! Nov. 12, 2015
12. 3A Odysseus Leaves Calypso Nov. 16, 2015
13. RM6 The Trial of Shrimp Boy Nov. 19, 2015
14. 4 Sappho Nov. 23, 2015
15. RM7 Literature and Loneliness Nov. 25, 2015
16. 5 Greek Tragedy (Part One) Nov. 30, 2015
17. RM8 My Inner Bleeping Bandit Dec. 3, 2015
18. 6 Greek Tragedy – Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides Dec. 7, 2015
19. RM9 Nietzsche’s Children Dec. 10, 2015
20. 7 Greek Comedy – Aristophanes Dec. 14, 2015
21. 7A Proust, Pound, and Chinese Poetry Dec. 17, 2015
22. 8 The Shi Jing (Chinese Classical Poetry) Dec. 21, 2015
23. A Jacke Wilson Holiday (RM10) Dec. 24, 2015
24. 9 Confucius Jan. 4, 2016
25. 10 Indian Literature: A Cosmic Feast Jan. 7, 2016
26. 11 The Upanishads (Part One) Jan. 11, 2016
27. 27 The Upanishads (Part Two) Jan. 18, 2016
28. 28 The Ramayana Jan. 25, 2016
29. 29 Conspiracy! Feb. 1, 2016
30. 30 More Conspiracy! Feb. 24, 2016
31. 31 Secret Societies! March 1, 2016
32. 32 The Best Debut Novels of All Time (A Conversation with the President of the Literature Supporters’ Club) March 3, 2016
33. 33 – The Bhagavad Gita March 7, 2016
34. 34 Borges and the Search for Meaning March 14, 2016
35. 35 A Conversation with Ronica Dhar March 21, 2016
36. 36 Poetry and Empire (Virgil, Ovid, Horace, Petronius, Catullus) March 28, 2016
37. 37 Literary Duos (Part One) April 11, 2016
38. 38 Literary Duos (Part Two) April 18, 2016
39. 39 Graham Greene April 25, 2016
40. 40 Radha Vatsal, Author of “A Front Page Affair” May 2, 2016
41. 41 The New Testament (with Professor Kyle Keefer) May 9, 2016
42. 42 Was Prince a Poet? May 16, 2016
43. 43 Seeing Evil (with Professor Rebecca Messbarger) May 23, 2016
44. 87 Man in Love: The Passions of D.H. Lawrence April 7, 2017
45. Episode 0 – Battling the Beast Oct. 10, 2015
46. 1 The Epic of Gilgamesh Oct. 12, 2015
47. 1A – The Discovery of Gilgamesh Oct. 15, 2015
48. 2 The Hebrew Bible Oct. 26, 2015
49. 2A The Book of Job Oct. 29, 2015
50. 3 Homer Nov. 9, 2015
51. 3A Odysseus Leaves Calypso Nov. 16, 2015
52. 4 Sappho Nov. 23, 2015
53. 5 Greek Tragedy (Part One) Nov. 30, 2015
54. 6 Greek Tragedy – Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides Dec. 7, 2015
55. 7 Greek Comedy – Aristophanes Dec. 14, 2015
56. 7A Proust, Pound, and Chinese Poetry Dec. 17, 2015
57. 8 The Shi Jing (Chinese Classical Poetry) Dec. 21, 2015
58. 9 Confucius Jan. 4, 2016
59. 10 Indian Literature: A Cosmic Feast Jan. 7, 2016
60. 11 The Upanishads (Part One) Jan. 11, 2016
61. 27 The Upanishads (Part Two) Jan. 18, 2016
62. 28 The Ramayana Jan. 25, 2016
63. 44 Augustine and The Confessions (pt 1) May 30, 2016
64. 45 Augustine and The Confessions (pt 2) June 6, 2016
65. 46 Poetry of the T’ang Dynasty June 13, 2016
66. 47 Hemingway vs Fitzgerald June 20, 2016
67. 48 Hamlet June 27, 2016
68. 49 MFA Programs – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly July 4, 2016
69. 50 Othello July 11, 2016
70. 51 Coleridge, Kubla Khan, and the Person from Porlock – A Literary Mystery July 18, 2016
71. 52 Recommend This! The Best 101 Books for College-Bound Readers July 29, 2016
72. 53 Romeo and Juliet Aug. 5, 2016
73. 54 The Greatest Books Ever (Part 2) Aug. 12, 2016
74. 55 James Joyce (with Vincent O’Neill) Aug. 19, 2016
75. 56 Shelley, HD, Yeats, Frost, Stevens – The Poetry of Ruins (with Professor Bill Hogan) Aug. 26, 2016
76. 57 Borges, Munro, Davis, Barthelme – All About Short Stories (And Long Ones Too) Sept. 2, 2016
77. 58 Wyndham Lewis and the Vorticists (with Professor Paul Peppis) Sept. 9, 2016
78. 59 Flannery O’Connor Sept. 16, 2016
79. 60 Great Literary Endings Sept. 23, 2016
80. 61 In the Mood for a Good Book – Wharton, Murakami, Chandler, and Fowles (with Vu Tran) Sept. 30, 2016
81. 62 Bad Poetry Oct. 7, 2016
82. 63 Chekhov, Bellow, Wright, and Fox (with Charles Baxter) Oct. 14, 2016
83. 64 Dorothy Parker Oct. 24, 2016
84. 65 Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (with Professor James Chandler) Oct. 28, 2016
85. 66 James Baldwin, Wallace Stegner, GB Tran, Lois Duncan (with author Shawna Yang Ryan) Nov. 4, 2016
86. 67 Pascal’s Wager and an American Election Nov. 18, 2016
87. 68 Listener Feedback and Thanksgiving Thoughts Nov. 23, 2016
88. 69 Virginia Woolf and Her Enemies (with Professor Andrea Zemgulys) / Children’s Books Nov. 28, 2016
89. 70 Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar Dec. 5, 2016
90. 71 Did Bob Dylan Deserve the Nobel Prize? Dec. 12, 2016
91. 72 The Best Christmas Stories in Literature Dec. 19, 2016
92. 73 Javier Marias and the Philosophical Novel Dec. 27, 2016
93. 74 Great First Chapters (with Vu Tran) Jan. 1, 2017
94. 75 The Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki Jan. 11, 2017
95. 76 Darkness and the Power of Literature – The Forbidden Stories of North Korea (with Terry Hong) Jan. 18, 2017
96. 77 Top 10 Literary Cities Jan. 27, 2017
97. 78 Jane Eyre, The Good Soldier, Giovanni’s Room (with Margot Livesey) Feb. 3, 2017
98. 79 Music That Melts the Stars – Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Feb. 10, 2017
99. 80 Power Play! Shakespeare’s Henry V Feb. 17, 2017
100. 81 Faust (aka The Devil Went Down to Germany) Feb. 24, 2017
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