#60: Concluding Brideshead Revisited (LIVE EPISODE)

Close Reads Podcast

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Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2017

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

On this special LIVE episode of Close Reads, Angelina, Tim, David, and their special guest conclude their discussion of Evelyn Waugh's classic novel Brideshead Revisited, focusing on the final chapters.

This episode was recorded at the 2017 CiRCE Conference.

Topics include:

The love story
Whether this story is tragedy
Whether people wanted Julia and Charles to stay together
The sign of the cross and aesthetic theology
The ongoing thread twitches
Listener comments
and much more

This episode is brought to you by Schole Academy from Classical Academic Press, featuring new literature courses taught by Close Reads co-star, Tim McIntosh.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Close Reads on the Circe Institute Podcast Network.
0:08.7	I'm David Kern and as always on Close Reads, I am joined by Angelina Stam, Angelina Sanford
0:15.8	and Tim McIntosh and our special guest, Andrew Kern.
0:19.6	How's it going, guys?
0:21.9	Ah, yeah.
0:30.2	How soon are we going to tell the non-attendees, like, what's going on at this special podcast?
0:31.7	You mean how hungry I am? Well, we've been talking about it for a while, so they'll probably figure it out.
0:35.8	This is the first annual, first, the inaugural.
0:42.0	The inaugural.
0:42.6	There you.
0:43.3	Live recording of close reads.
0:46.5	So we are sitting in a cavernous room here at the Hyatt in Austin at the 2017 Circe conference with a live
0:55.6	are we calling it a studio a live studio audience I think it's a live studio it's a
0:59.9	live studio audience would you like to now now when you go if you're here when you
1:08.0	go to listen to the show you can try to pick out each of your own claps and cheers. Oh, that was me. Yeah. We are here to talk about Bride's Head
1:16.9	Revisited. We're here, this is our final Bride's Head Revisited. Well, it's not our final episode
1:21.4	because we're going to do the Q&A, but it is our final discussion of the actual chapters. David, I wonder if I could start with a quick story about one of our close-reeds listeners
1:32.6	that I would ordinarily keep off the air, but since we're live in front of some close-to-rease
1:38.0	listeners, I wonder if that would have...
1:38.9	Is this person currently sitting in this room?
1:41.9	I believe so.
1:42.6	Well, then yes.
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