Mouse Book Club

MBC-016-BARTLEBY by MELVILLE

MBC-013-HISTORY OF WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE PT. 1

Guest: Lori Ginzberg is Professor of History and Women, Gender and Sexual Studies at Penn State University. Professor Ginzberg is the author of numerous books and articles on the history of the Suffrage movement, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life . Show Notes: Below are the topics covered in this conversation (with time stamps). National Parks Service Suffrage Centennial WEBSITE [2:50] Context from which demand for women's rights emerged [5:15] Founding myths of the Suffrage Mov...

MBC-012-THE ODYSSEY by Homer

Guest: Emily Austin is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago, and author of Grief and the Hero: the Futility of Longing in the Iliad . Her area of expertise is emotion in the ancient world. Show Notes: Greek concepts of Hell [3:45] Repeating patterns of grief giving rise to anger [5:30] Digging into the character of Odysseus [14:20] Alice Oswald's Memorial as powerful excavation of Homer [16:450 Contemporary echoes of Electra [18:00] Jonathan Shay on Homer, PTSD, and Vietn...

MBC-011-INFERNO by Dante

GUEST William Cook is Professor of History, SUNY Geneseo (Retired). Professor Cook earned his PhD in History from Cornell and taught Medieval History for 42 years, lecturing and writing on Dante extensively for a variety of different audiences. Bill now runs the William Cook Foundation which provides educational opportunities in low resource communities. SHOW NOTES Profound lesson from teaching Dante to murderers [2:15] Overcoming the bitterness of factionalism [5:15] Dante's identity and the by...

MBC-010 PARADISE LOST by Milton

Our guest for this episode is Professor Stanley Fish, who became one of the world's leading scholars of the work of John Milton upon the publication of Surprised by Sin: The Reader in Paradise Lost in 1967. His scholarly work on Milton is collected in the 2001 book How Milton Works. He has also solidified himself as one of the formidable public intellectuals of the last fifty years. SHOW NOTES How to accidentally becoming a world-class expert on Milton [2:00] A bracing description of how the cha...

MBC-009 ILIAD by Homer

Our Guest in this episode is Professor Emily Austin from the University of Chicago, and author of Grief and the Hero: the Futility of Longing in the Iliad.

MBC-008 SONG OF MYSELF by Whitman

MBC-007 SPECIMEN DAYS by Whitman

MBC-006 DEMOCRATIC VISTAS-Whitman

MBC-005-WALKING by Thoreau

MBC-004 THE ENCHIRIDION by Epictetus

MBC-003 THE DECAMERON by Boccaccio

MBC-002-THE PROPHET by Gibran

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