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Fiction and the Fantastic: Stories by Franz Kafka	Close Readings	16:06
Conversations in Philosophy: 'My Station and Its Duties' by F.H. Bradley	Close Readings	14:44
Novel Approaches: 'Vanity Fair' by William Makepeace Thackeray	Close Readings	32:52
Love and Death: Elegies for Poets by Berryman, Lowell and Bishop	Close Readings	12:11
Fiction and the Fantastic: ‘Alice in Wonderland’ by Lewis Carroll	Close Readings	15:41
Conversations in Philosophy: 'Autobiography' by John Stuart Mill	Close Readings	14:13
Novel Approaches: ‘Wuthering Heights’ by Emily Brontë	Close Readings	26:38
Love and Death: ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ by Thomas Gray	Close Readings	15:21
Fiction and the Fantastic: ‘Invisible Cities’ by Italo Calvino	Close Readings	15:35
Conversations in Philosophy: 'Circles' and other essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson	Close Readings	15:10
Novel Approaches: 'Crotchet Castle' by Thomas Love Peacock	Close Readings	36:12
Love and Death: Elegies for children by Ben Jonson, Anne Bradstreet, Geoffrey Hill and Elizabeth Bishop	Close Readings	13:37
Fiction and the Fantastic: ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ by Jonathan Swift	Close Readings	15:41
Conversations in Philosophy: 'The Essence of Christianity' by Ludwig Feuerbach	Close Readings	10:29
Novel Approaches: ‘Mansfield Park’ by Jane Austen	Close Readings	31:53
Love and Death: Milton's 'Lycidas'	Close Readings	12:31
Fiction and the Fantastic: ‘The Thousand and One Nights’	Close Readings	14:41
Conversations in Philosophy: 'Fear and Trembling' by Søren Kierkegaard	Close Readings	12:24
Introducing ‘Novel Approaches’	Close Readings	07:57
Introducing ‘Love and Death’	Close Readings	05:13
Introducing ‘Fiction and the Fantastic’	Close Readings	08:06
Introducing 'Conversations in Philosophy'	Close Readings	08:35
Political Poems: ‘Little Gidding’ by T.S. Eliot	Close Readings	10:51
Among the Ancients II: Marcus Aurelius	Close Readings	59:50
Medieval LOLs: Gwerful Mechain’s ‘Ode to the Vagina’	Close Readings	10:45
Coming next year on Close Readings	Close Readings	01:57
Human Conditions: ‘Sister Outsider’ by Audre Lorde	Close Readings	13:39
On Satire: 'A Far Cry from Kensington' by Muriel Spark	Close Readings	16:29
Political Poems: ‘Station Island’ by Seamus Heaney	Close Readings	12:21
Among the Ancients II: Apuleius	Close Readings	11:12
Medieval LOLs: 'Tales of Count Lucanor' by Juan Manuel	Close Readings	14:12
Human Conditions: ‘Black Music’ by Amiri Baraka	Close Readings	17:12
On Satire: 'A Handful of Dust' by Evelyn Waugh	Close Readings	16:08
Political Poems: 'The Prelude' (books 9 and 10) by William Wordsworth	Close Readings	11:39
Among the Ancients II: Juvenal	Close Readings	14:05
Medieval LOLs: Boccaccio’s ‘Decameron’, Part Two	Close Readings	14:44
Human Conditions: ‘Discourse on Colonialism’ by Aimé Césaire	Close Readings	13:02
On Satire: 'The Importance of Being Earnest' by Oscar Wilde	Close Readings	14:37
Political Poems: 'Autumn Journal' by Louis MacNeice	Close Readings	12:55
Among the Ancients II: Tacitus	Close Readings	12:51

Fiction and the Fantastic: Stories by Franz Kafka

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16:06

Conversations in Philosophy: 'My Station and Its Duties' by F.H. Bradley

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14:44

Novel Approaches: 'Vanity Fair' by William Makepeace Thackeray

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32:52

Love and Death: Elegies for Poets by Berryman, Lowell and Bishop

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12:11