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Subtext: Conversations about Classic Books and Films

Wes Alwan and Erin O'Luanaigh
Subtext: Conversations about Classic Books and Films
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  • “The Indian to His Love” by William Butler Yeats
    Wes & Erin discuss "The Indian to His Love."
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  • “Leda and the Swan” by William Butler Yeats
    Wes & Erin discuss "Leda and the Swan."
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  • The Artifice of Eternity in Yeats’s “Sailing to Byzantium” (Part 2)
    Wes & Erin continue their discussion of Yeats’s "Sailing to Byzantium," and whether creativity can help us transcend mortality, and how artists should conceive of their relationships to nature and posterity.
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  • The Artifice of Eternity in Yeats’s “Sailing to Byzantium”
    Yeats’s poem “Sailing to Byzantium” begins and ends with the concept of reproduction. In the first stanza, this reproduction is natural and sexual, and in the final stanza is entirely a matter of artifice. The living songbird is transformed into both product and producer, with a form of singing that is gilded by a consciousness of its departure from nature. Where natural reproduction replenishes entities that are neverthless always in the process of dying, art—the speaker seems to hope—is potentially eternal. And yet the poem’s final stanza also reminds us that art is ultimately for the living, and only as alive as its audience. Wes & Erin discuss Yeats’s meditation on whether creativity can help us transcend mortality, and how artists should conceive of their relationships to nature and posterity.
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  • The Evil of Banality in “Rosemary’s Baby” (1968) – Part 2
    Wes & Erin continue their discussion of Roman Polanski’s 1968 classic, and why it is that Satanic evil, when confronted with life’s very frightening realities—including pregnancy itself—turns out to be so banal.
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Subtext is a book club podcast for readers interested in what the greatest works of the human imagination say about life’s big questions. Each episode, philosopher Wes Alwan and poet Erin O’Luanaigh conduct a close reading of a text or film and co-write an audio essay about it in real time. It’s literary analysis, but in the best sense: we try not overly stuffy and pedantic, but rather focus on unearthing what’s most compelling about great books and movies, and how it is they can touch our lives in such a significant way.
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