4.4 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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This week, David, Heidi, and special guest, Karen Swallow Prior, dive ever-deeper into the world of Jane Austen's classic first novel. Discussion touches on the languid pacing of this middle section, the question of stakes, the various binaries Austen asks us to consider, and much more.
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to Close Reeds here on the Close Reeds Podcast Network. I'm David Kern, |
0:16.2 | and I am joined by Karen Swallow Pryor and Heidi White. Karen, Heidi, how's it going? |
0:21.8 | It's going great. |
0:22.3 | Yeah, doing great. |
0:23.4 | Thanks for being back on the show, back here to talk about sense and sensibility. |
0:27.2 | We are here to discuss chapters 16 through 22. |
0:31.0 | I think it would be the end of volume one for those readers who are reading an edition that does include all three volumes. |
0:38.1 | I was alerted to the fact, I asked last week whether all editions have that, and it is not the case that all editions have that. |
0:46.2 | Many of our listeners said that they do not have it broken down the way we had kind of had it on the schedule. |
0:53.2 | So I asked, I think someone said they were going to send me on Facebook, |
0:57.2 | that they were going to send me the breakdown of the chapters, |
1:00.1 | not broken down that way, so I can post that as well. |
1:02.2 | So I apologize for confusing those of you that don't have the three volumes |
1:06.8 | and asking you to do math. |
1:08.4 | It's a great hardship. |
1:13.4 | So again, we are here to discuss the end of volume one. It is chapter 16 through 22. I think through these first three episodes, |
1:17.4 | the math should be pretty standard. We should be okay. And starting next week, it might get a |
1:21.6 | little more complicated. Before we dive in, though, I want to say a word from our friends over |
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1:28.0 | Some of you might know the name Fritz Heinrich. He has been in the classical education |
1:32.0 | circles for more than 25 years. And he is out to develop, find minds who have an understanding |
1:38.3 | of the great ideas of Western civilization. The dying art of civil discourse is one that |
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