© Oxford University; the media items are released with a Creative Commons licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ A series of interviews with academic experts on a number of great writers. Part of the Great Writers Inspire project. en-GB Tue, 26 Mar 2013 10:31:04 +0000 http://writersinspire.org Oxford University http://media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/engfac/great-writers/interviews_gwi_ac_CC.jpg http://writersinspire.org 1 Oriental tale eighteenth century arabian nights french salon culture antoine galland short stories fiction great writers great writers inspire discussion Prof. Warner and Prof. Ballaster begin their conversation with Antoine Galland's translation into French from Arabic of the 'Alf Layla wa-Layla' as the first two volumes of 'Les Mille et Une Nuit' in the first decade of eighteenth century. The twelve-volume text that became known in the English-speaking world as 'The Arabian Nights Entertainments' was woven together from manuscript and verbal sources as well as added to with apparently invented tales by Antoine Galland himself. Warner and Ballaster open their discussion by considering whether Galland's tales provide a better window on the French salon culture of the early eighteenth century than Islamic empire medieval or modern. http://rss.oucs.ox.ac.uk/tag:2013-03-26:103104:781:engfac/gw-interviews-audio http://media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/engfac/great-writers/2013-03-21_Oriental_Tales_ballaster_warner.mp3?CAMEFROM=itunesu Prof. Warner and Prof. Ballaster begin their conversation with Antoine Galland's translation into French from Arabic of the 'Alf Layla wa-Layla' as the first two volumes of 'Les Mille et Une Nuit' in the first decade of eighteenth century. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ ukoer Prof. Warner and Prof. Ballaster begin their conversation with Antoine Galland's translation into French from Arabic of the 'Alf Layla wa-Layla' as the first two volumes of 'Les Mille et Une Nuit' in the first decade of eighteenth century. The twelve-volume text that became known in the English-speaking world as 'The Arabian Nights Entertainments' was woven together from manuscript and verbal sources as well as added to with apparently invented tales by Antoine Galland himself. Warner and Ballaster open their discussion by considering whether Galland's tales provide a better window on the French salon culture of the early eighteenth century than Islamic empire medieval or modern. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ Oriental tale,eighteenth century,arabian nights,french salon culture,antoine galland,short stories,fiction,great writers,great writers inspire,discussion Ros Ballaster, Marina Warner 1643 Tue, 26 Mar 2013 10:31:04 +0000 Interviews on Great Writers 2 Kipling imperialism British empire poetry verse colonialism India South Africa #greatwriters 1 Professor Elleke Boehmer discusses why Kipling's writing, and his poetry of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in particular, launched him to international fame across the British Empire. By comparing him to contemporary popular figures such as Elton John and Paul McCartney, she offers insight into how Kipling's verse captured the popular imagination of the common people throughout the age of imperialism. http://rss.oucs.ox.ac.uk/tag:2012-10-08:152059:811:engfac/gw-interviews-audio http://media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/engfac/great-writers/2012-10-09_Elleke_on_Kipling.mp3?CAMEFROM=itunesu Professor Elleke Boehmer discusses why Kipling's writing, and his poetry of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in particular, launched him to international fame across the British Empire. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ ukoer Professor Elleke Boehmer discusses why Kipling's writing, and his poetry of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in particular, launched him to international fame across the British Empire. By comparing him to contemporary popular figures such as Elton John and Paul McCartney, she offers insight into how Kipling's verse captured the popular imagination of the common people throughout the age of imperialism. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ Kipling,imperialism,British empire,poetry,verse,colonialism,India,South Africa,#greatwriters,1 Elleke Boehmer, Dominic Davies 640 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 15:20:59 +0100 Interviews on Great Writers 3 postcolonial women Zoe Wicomb South Africa colonization imperialism empire writes back South Asia #greatwriters Professor Elleke Boehmer notes the distinct lack of women writers on the Post/Colonial Writing page of the Great Writers website, and explores why this is the case. She draws attention to the phenomenon of double colonization and, taking Scottish/South African author Zoe Wicomb as an example, looks at the marketing and publishing industries to discuss why postcolonial women writers are less well-known than their male counterparts. http://rss.oucs.ox.ac.uk/tag:2012-10-08:151642:251:engfac/gw-interviews-audio http://media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/engfac/great-writers/2012-10-09_Postcolonial_Women_Writers.mp3?CAMEFROM=itunesu Professor Elleke Boehmer notes the distinct lack of women writers on the Post/Colonial Writing page of the Great Writers website, and explores why this is the case. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ ukoer Professor Elleke Boehmer notes the distinct lack of women writers on the Post/Colonial Writing page of the Great Writers website, and explores why this is the case. She draws attention to the phenomenon of double colonization and, taking Scottish/South African author Zoe Wicomb as an example, looks at the marketing and publishing industries to discuss why postcolonial women writers are less well-known than their male counterparts. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ postcolonial,women,Zoe Wicomb,South Africa,colonization,imperialism,empire writes back,South Asia,#greatwriters Elleke Boehmer, Dominic Davies 1195 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 15:16:06 +0100 Interviews on Great Writers 4 DH Lawrence postcolonial modernism modernist post/colonial postcoloniality theory Chaudhuri #greatwriters Western thought Professor Peter McDonald draws on the work of Indian novelist and literary critic, Amit Chaudhuri, to open up new ways of how we can think about D.H. Lawrence, not only as a Modernist, but also as a Post/Colonial writer. Peter then turns to Lawrence's short story, 'The Woman Who Rode Away' (1924), set in rural Mexico, in order to demonstrate how his literature runs against the grain of distinctly Western modes of thought. http://rss.oucs.ox.ac.uk/tag:2012-08-28:135322:223:engfac/gw-interviews-audio http://media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/engfac/great-writers/2012-08-28_McDonald_DHL.mp3?CAMEFROM=itunesu Professor Peter McDonald draws on the work of Indian novelist and literary critic, Amit Chaudhuri, to open up new ways of how we can think about D.H. Lawrence, not only as a Modernist, but also as a Post/Colonial writer. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ ukoer Professor Peter McDonald draws on the work of Indian novelist and literary critic, Amit Chaudhuri, to open up new ways of how we can think about D.H. Lawrence, not only as a Modernist, but also as a Post/Colonial writer. Peter then turns to Lawrence's short story, 'The Woman Who Rode Away' (1924), set in rural Mexico, in order to demonstrate how his literature runs against the grain of distinctly Western modes of thought. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ DH Lawrence,postcolonial,modernism,modernist,post/colonial,postcoloniality,theory,Chaudhuri,#greatwriters,Western thought Peter McDonald 1518 Tue, 28 Aug 2012 13:53:22 +0100 Interviews on Great Writers 5 Conrad #greatwriters postcolonial Achebe racism narrative politics narrative Heart of Darkness Lord Jim Professor Peter McDonald talks to Great Writers Inspire about the Post/Colonial aspects of Joseph Conrad's writing. In this second part, Peter closely analyses the narrative functions in Heart and Darkness and Lord Jim in order to consider what can be gained in reading these texts within the framework of post/colonial criticism. http://rss.oucs.ox.ac.uk/tag:2012-08-28:120255:383:engfac/gw-interviews-audio http://media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/engfac/great-writers/2012-08-22_Peter_McDonald_Conrad_2.mp3?CAMEFROM=itunesu Professor Peter McDonald talks to Great Writers Inspire about the Post/Colonial aspects of Joseph Conrad's writing. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ ukoer Professor Peter McDonald talks to Great Writers Inspire about the Post/Colonial aspects of Joseph Conrad's writing. In this second part, Peter closely analyses the narrative functions in Heart and Darkness and Lord Jim in order to consider what can be gained in reading these texts within the framework of post/colonial criticism. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ Conrad,#greatwriters,postcolonial,Achebe,racism,narrative,politics,narrative,Heart of Darkness,Lord Jim Peter McDonald 1490 Tue, 28 Aug 2012 12:02:55 +0100 Interviews on Great Writers 6 Conrad #greatwriters postcolonial Achebe racism narrative politics narrative first person nationality Heart of Darkness Professor Peter McDonald talks to Great Writers Inspire about the Post/Colonial aspects of Joseph Conrad's writing. In this first part, Peter takes Chinua Achebe's 1975 critique of Conrad as a starting point. Achebe deemed Conrad a 'bloody racist', and McDonald considers how Conrad's relationship to language and narrative complicates this. http://rss.oucs.ox.ac.uk/tag:2012-08-28:120115:169:engfac/gw-interviews-audio http://media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/engfac/great-writers/2012-08-22_Peter_McDonald_Conrad_1.mp3?CAMEFROM=itunesu Professor Peter McDonald talks to Great Writers Inspire about the Post/Colonial aspects of Joseph Conrad's writing. In this first part, Peter takes Chinua Achebe's 1975 critique of Conrad as a starting point. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ ukoer Professor Peter McDonald talks to Great Writers Inspire about the Post/Colonial aspects of Joseph Conrad's writing. In this first part, Peter takes Chinua Achebe's 1975 critique of Conrad as a starting point. Achebe deemed Conrad a 'bloody racist', and McDonald considers how Conrad's relationship to language and narrative complicates this. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ Conrad,#greatwriters,postcolonial,Achebe,racism,narrative,politics,narrative,first person,nationality,Heart of Darkness Peter McDonald 907 Tue, 28 Aug 2012 12:01:15 +0100 Interviews on Great Writers 7 Caribbean Aime Cesaire Derek Walcott Poetry Plays hybridity postcolonial #greatwriters Jason Allen offers a comparative discussion of two important Caribbean poets and playwrights, Aime Cesaire and Derek Walcott, to emphasize the impact of Caribbean literature upon the postcolonial world. By using biographical and historical detail to support his analysis of some of Cesaire and Walcott's key texts, Allen offers insight into what it means to be a Caribbean writer - looking back to a colonial past, and forward to a global future. http://rss.oucs.ox.ac.uk/tag:2012-08-24:114026:001:engfac/gw-interviews-audio http://media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/engfac/great-writers/2012-08-17_Jason_on_Cesaire_and_Walcott.mp3?CAMEFROM=itunesu Jason Allen offers a comparative discussion of two important Caribbean poets and playwrights, Aime Cesaire and Derek Walcott, to emphasize the impact of Caribbean literature upon the postcolonial world. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ ukoer Jason Allen offers a comparative discussion of two important Caribbean poets and playwrights, Aime Cesaire and Derek Walcott, to emphasize the impact of Caribbean literature upon the postcolonial world. By using biographical and historical detail to support his analysis of some of Cesaire and Walcott's key texts, Allen offers insight into what it means to be a Caribbean writer - looking back to a colonial past, and forward to a global future. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ Caribbean,Aime Cesaire,Derek Walcott,Poetry,Plays,hybridity,postcolonial,#greatwriters Jason Allen, Dominic Davies 2342 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 11:40:26 +0100 Interviews on Great Writers 8 Shakespeare drama voice Henry V poetry punctuation Linda Gates, Professor of Voice at Northwestern University (USA) discusses how Shakespeare's poetry and plays lend themselves to vocal performance by discussing how breath can be used to 'punctuate the thought'. http://rss.oucs.ox.ac.uk/tag:2012-08-01:114301:884:engfac/gw-interviews-audio http://media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/engfac/great-writers/2012-08-01_Shakespeare_and_Voice_Linda_Gates.mp3?CAMEFROM=itunesu Linda Gates, Professor of Voice at Northwestern University (USA) discusses how Shakespeare's poetry and plays lend themselves to vocal performance by discussing how breath can be used to 'punctuate the thought'. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ ukoer Linda Gates, Professor of Voice at Northwestern University (USA) discusses how Shakespeare's poetry and plays lend themselves to vocal performance by discussing how breath can be used to 'punctuate the thought'. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ Shakespeare,drama,voice,Henry V,poetry,punctuation Linda Gates 494 Wed, 01 Aug 2012 11:42:27 +0100 Interviews on Great Writers 9 Emily Dickinson Victorian poetry Shakespeare American poetry #greatwriters Dr Sally Bayley presents an illuminating reading of Emily Dickinson's 'I started early, took my dog'. In her reading, she seeks out allusions to Shakespearean plays including Hamlet and The Merchant of Venice. She then answers questions about the poem. http://rss.oucs.ox.ac.uk/tag:2012-07-16:110209:860:engfac/gw-interviews-audio http://media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/engfac/great-writers/2012-06-25_Sally_Bayley_on_Emily_Dickinson.mp3?CAMEFROM=itunesu Dr Sally Bayley presents an illuminating reading of Emily Dickinson's 'I started early, took my dog'. In her reading, she seeks out allusions to Shakespearean plays including Hamlet and The Merchant of Venice. She then answers questions about the poem. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ ukoer Dr Sally Bayley presents an illuminating reading of Emily Dickinson's 'I started early, took my dog'. In her reading, she seeks out allusions to Shakespearean plays including Hamlet and The Merchant of Venice. She then answers questions about the poem. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ Emily Dickinson,Victorian,poetry,Shakespeare,American poetry,#greatwriters Sally Bayley 999 Mon, 16 Jul 2012 11:02:09 +0100 Interviews on Great Writers