The Night Circus x Reading Ecosystems

Material Girls

Rehak Hannah

Harry Potter, Books, Vanessa Zoltan, Hannah Mcgregor, Not Sorry, Tv & Film, Aubrey Gordon, Cultural Cricism, Pop Culture, Marcelle Kosman, Witch Please, Feminism, Fantasy, Arts, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

One of Marcelle's favorite books is The Night Circus, so she decided to be brave and do an entire episode about the best-selling fantasy novel by Erin Morgenstern. Why brave? Well because sometimes it's hard to think critically about something you love! We all know that. ;) This episode, Marcelle leads us through a quick chat about how the book was set up for success in 2011, followed by some theory about reading ecosystems from Book Was There: Reading in Electronic Times by Andrew Piper. And then, of course, she applies her brilliant mind to a brilliant thesis!

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Material Girls is a new show that aims to make sense of the zeitgeist through materialist critique* and critical theory! Each episode looks at a unique object of study (something popular now or from back in the day) and over the course of three distinct segments, Hannah and Marcelle apply their academic expertise to the topic at hand.

We'll be back in two weeks for another episode, but until then, be sure to check out all the bonus content we have on our Patreon at Patreon.com/ohwitchplease. You can learn more about the show at ohwitchplease.ca and on our instagram at instagram.com/ohwitchplease! Want more from us? Check out our website ohwitchplease.ca.

*Materialist Critique is, at its simplest possible level, a form of cultural critique – that is, scholarly engagement with a cultural text of some kind – that is interested in modes of production, moments of reception, and the historical and ideological contexts for both. Materialist critique is really interested in the question of why a particular cultural work or practice emerged at a particular moment.

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0:00.0	A cast recommends.
0:02.0	Hello, I'm Richard Herring and I'm the host of Rahalistepa, also known as Richard Herring's Lester Square Theatre podcast.
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0:36.3	the logbooks, the high performance podcast,
0:38.7	and the one you're listening to right now. I need a new mind I need a
1:03.0	a new brain I want to take a ride on a mini train you can have it all
1:09.8	at the shopping.
1:22.0	Hello and welcome to material girls, a scholarly podcast about popular culture. I'm Marcel Cosman and I'm Hannah McGregor and today
1:26.2	we are talking about one of Marcel's all-time favorite books, Aaron Morgan Stern's
1:32.1	2011 debut novel The Night Circus.
1:36.0	I just think it's really important to stress here that because it's one of my favorite books,
1:41.0	I need everybody listening to know that they need to be
1:43.5	really nice about it because as a pisies I base my own value exclusively on the value of
1:50.9	the things that I care about.
1:52.6	So be nice.
1:53.6	Yeah, which is like a cool, healthy way to enjoy things.
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