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How To Love Lit Podcast

Christy and Garry Shriver•www.howtolovelitpodcast.com
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The How to Love Lit Podcast analyzes and discusses Classical, American, British, European and world literature both traditional and contemporary. It discusses novels, plays, speeches, song lyrics and poems that are commonly taught in high school, secondary or university English language classes. Garry and Christy Shriver's focus on the historical context, poetic, narrative and rhetorical structure is researched, and entertaining; Each series consists of one to five episodes focused on the most important titles of each author enhances understanding of English both for teacher and student. The podcast is useful for flipping classroom instruction, supplementing lectures, asynchronous learning, and personal growth. Each week a new episode consisting of a lecture under 50 minutes is introduced.

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Episodes

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Episode 1 -The First Distinctive American Literary Voice!

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Episode 1 -The First Distinctive American Literary Voice! Hi, I’m Christy Shriver and we’re here to discuss books that have changed the world and have changed us. And I’m Garry Shriver and this is the How to Love Lit Podcast. Today we begin our first of two episodes on Ralph Waldo Emerson, arguably America’s first distinctively American literary voice. He extraordinarily influenced and inspired some of the most notable and productive writers this continent has produced. Som...

Apr 29, 2023•46 min•Season 1Ep. 210

Aldous Huxley - Brave New World - Episode 4 - The Struggle Between Meaning And Happiness!

Hi, I’m Christy Shriver and we’re here to discuss books that have changed the world and have changed us. I’m Garry Shriver, and this is the How to Love Lit Podcast. Today we conclude our four-part series on Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World; the world Huxley creates may be New but certainly it is not brave. Michel Houellebecq in his 1998 novel The Elementary Particles references Brave New World in an unusual way. Instead of seeing it as a warning of an evil to be avoided, he, or at least his chara...

Feb 04, 2023•48 min•Season 1Ep. 200

Aldous Huxley - Brave New World - Episode 3 - The Two Dystopian Worlds Collide!

I’m Christy Shriver and we’re here to discuss books that have changed the world and have changed us. I’m Garry Shriver and this is the How to Love lit Podcast. This is our third episode in our four part series on Aldous Huxley’s negative utopia Brave New World. In episode 1, we met Huxley and toured London’s Central Hatchery, covering chapters 1 and 2. In episode 2, we discussed chapters 3-5 meeting two characters from the novel. I want to point out that they are main characters, and when they w...

Jan 28, 2023•46 min•Season 1Ep. 199

Aldous Huxley - Brave New World - Episode 2 - The Best World Science Can Create!

Hi, I’m Christy Shriver, and we’re to discuss books that have changed the world and have changed us. I’m Garry Shriver, and this is the How to Love Lit Podcast. This is episode 2 of our 4 part series discussing Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Today we will finish our discussion of part one of this book, chapters 1-5 and begin the transition into the second part. In other words, we will explore a progressive world of perfect containment and stability before shifting to a primitive one of risk an...

Jan 21, 2023•47 min•Season 1Ep. 198

Aldous Huxley - Brave New World - Episode 1 - Is It Dystopian Or Utopian?

So, let’s get started, first, it’s important to note that this book was published in the UK in 1931. So, for context, let’s think about what was happening or really what hadn’t happened yet in Europe or the rest of the world. The book is pre-Hitler, pre-Stalin, pre-internet, pre-mass-media, pre-social engineering, he predates a lot of the things that define what we call the modern world, yet you might not think that just reading it. It pre-dates Orwell’s 1984, too. That book wasn’t written until...

Jan 14, 2023•45 min•Season 1Ep. 197
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