May 13, 2013
read by Sarah Correia
About this episode's reader:
Year: senior Major: English
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Welcome to the penultimate episode of our spring 2013 English 222 series. Sarah brings you Part 1 (lines 1-82) of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's masterpiece. Her own introductory remarks make any further comment here unnecessary!
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April 21, 2013
read by Elaine Lanza
About this episode's reader:
Year: junior Major: English (with secondary education concentration)
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The podcast returns refreshed from its own spring break, the more fit to continue presenting the English 222 series launched last episode. Elaine Lanza, too, has chosen work by William Blake; so let's hear not only her reading of the poem, but her words of introduction to it, as well.
The next fortnight will bring you Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the following episode--the last in this series--will feature William Wordsworth.
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Sound effects credit: The end of the reading includes a clip from the MP3 album Horror Soundscapes, Haunted House Sound Effects, from the Scary Sounds of Horror label, copyright 2011. The sound effect was edited by your friendly webpresario.
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March 17, 2013
read by Jennifer Carr
About this episode's reader:
Year: junior Major: English (writing concentration)
Other: I'm a mom, geek, reader, writer, photo tech, customer service rep, and student. A major Steampunk enthusiast and anthropologist, with a great penchant for adoring all things strange.
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With her reading of William Blake's "The Chimney Sweeper," Jennifer Carr launches the podcast's English 222 series, in which B.S.U. students not only choose the texts to perform, but also compose the commentary that introduces each literary work. So get yourself into a comfortable listening attitude, and let Jennifer tell you about the poet and the poem in this fortnight's episode.
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Literature Aloud will be on a spring break of its own for about a month, after which the English 222 series will resume. Tune in again then!
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March 3, 2013
read by Brinna Dessert
About this episode's reader:
Year: freshman Major: English
Other: In case Brinna needed another reason to love her boyfriend Bryan, he showed her this story.
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This translation of Jorge Luis Borges's text is James E. Irby's (Labyrinths. New York: New Directions, 2007). Yes, "[t]he certitude that everything has been written negates us or turns us into phantoms"; so let us without further introduction allow Brinna Dessert's musical voice to do the rest.
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February 16, 2013
read by Elizabeth Jumpe
About this episode's reader:
Year: sophomore Major: history and English (double major)
Other: "Put the bunny back in the box."
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Elizabeth Jumpe steps into both roles in this encounter between Hamlet and Ophelia in William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Turn to the first scene of Act III, lines 120 -139 if you'd like to follow along!
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February 3, 2013
read by Elizabeth Jumpe
About this episode's reader:
Year: sophomore Major: history and English (double major)
Other: "What's in the bag? A shark or something?"
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Granted, "Extreme Reading" has yet to be accorded Olympic status, but fairly recent inclusions from the extreme sports world (BMX racing, snowboarding...) keep us hoping. Spoken-word veteran Elizabeth Jumpe pushes the boundaries and takes the risks once again with this performance of Robert Browning's "Porphyria's Lover."
This poem gives voice to just one of the poet's multiple-personality stableful of speakers, others of whom hold forth in "Rabbi Ben Ezra," "My Last Duchess," and "Caliban Upon Setebos"--all among the dramatic monologues that have come to cause the genre to be considered something of a Browning specialty.
(The thunderclap at the end of this episode is based on a clip from the MP3 album Horror Soundscapes, Haunted House Sound Effects, from the Scary Sounds of Horror label, copyright 2011. The sound effect was edited by your friendly webpresario.)
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January 4, 2013
read by Leisel Sullivan
About this episode's reader:
Year: senior Major: English and special education
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The third installation in our English 221 "readers present" series is also the podcast's fiftieth episode! If you're in the celebrating mood, why not stroll down memory lane back to to Literature Aloud's first reading? (It's Christina Amendola giving us a passage from Jane Eyre almost three years ago; you can find her voice under "Classic Episode #1" on the menu at right.)
This fortnight's reader evokes a new year described by an unknown poet over six hundred new years ago. Leisel Sullivan is reading Simon Armitage's translation of lines 500 - 549 of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. (Further bibliographic details appear in both of our last two episodes.) We'll let Leisel take it from here.....
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December 22, 2012
read by Venus Barbosa
About this episode's reader:
Year: junior Major: marketing, accounting, and finance
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With this performance of lines 58-115 of the Anglo-Saxon poem "The Wanderer,"* Literature Aloud brings you Episode 2 in our series of English 221 students introducing their readings as a part of the recorded presentation. So tune in to hear not only Venus's rendition of these fittingly wintry lines, but also her comments on the text's ability to traverse more than a millennium to speak directly to us.
* Greenblatt, Stephen, et al. eds. The Norton Anthology of English
Literature. 9th ed. Vol. A. New York, London: W.W. Norton & Co.,
2012. Print. The translation is by Alfred David.
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