Category Archives: ter Horst, Robert
Crosscurrents
In two conversations about creative crosscurrents between Europe and the United States, Rita Dove discusses Durer’s Beauty, her sequence of poems about the German artist Albrecht Durer, and Robert ter Horst discusses the American historian Henry Adams and the Bloomsbury … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, German, History, Poetry
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Accounting for the Novel, Part 2 of 2
According to Paul Hunter and Robert ter Horst, modern scholarship now focuses on various cultural as well as specifically literary and aesthetic elements in accounting for the origins and development of the novel. Among such cultural elements are the connections … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, Hunter, J. Paul, ter Horst, Robert
Tagged Humanities, Literature, Novels
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Accounting for the Novel, Part 1 of 2
According to Paul Hunter and Robert ter Horst, an understanding of the origins of modern fiction involves various cultural as well as specifically literary issues. Where do novels come from, who writes them, and who reads them? At the time of this interview, Hunter, … Continue reading
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Tagged Humanities, Literature, Novels
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Reader and Writer: French and Hispanic Literature
Philip Berk discusses his study of Rabelaisian hermeneutics–the literary relationship between the author and his audiences–in Pantagruel, Rabelais’s sixteenth-century novel which satirizes French culture, religion, and learning. Robert ter Horst and Patricia Sanchez comment on three noteworthy aspects of Hispanic literature … Continue reading
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Tagged French, Literature, Poetry, Religion, Spanish
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The Gilded Age, Part 2 of 2: Henry Adams
Hiram Caton, Giles Gunn, and Robert ter Horst continue the conversation on the Gilded Age, the period from the end of the Civil War through the early twentieth century. They examine American historian Henry Adams (1838-1918), viewed by many cultural … Continue reading
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Tagged Gilded Age, Henry Adams, Religion, U. S. History
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(1) The Gilded Age, Part 1 of 2; (2) Book Review of History of the Idea of Progress
Giles Gunn, David Shi, and Robert ter Horst discuss the era known as the Gilded Age. Soundings producer Wayne Pond contextualizes this episode, saying, “In this year of presidential politics [1984], there will be much talk about America’s future, its … Continue reading
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Tagged Gilded Age, Politics, U. S. History
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The Art of Literary Biography, Part 7 of 7: Cather
Margaret Anne O’Connor and Robert ter Horst discuss American author Willa Cather, including autobiographical aspects of her work and her engagement with the artistic currents of her times. They discuss at length and read from The Professor’s House. At the time of this … Continue reading
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Tagged American literature -- twentieth century, Professor's House, The Professor's House, Willa Cather
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Notions of the Tragic in Western Literature, Part 4 of 4
Peter Burian, Eugene Falk, Peter Smith, and Robert ter Horst conclude their series on tragedy with this episode. They say that from antiquity through medieval, renaissance, and modern interpretations, conceptions of the tragic in Western literature have resisted specific definitions, … Continue reading
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Tagged King Lear, Literature, Tragedy, William Shakespeare
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Notions of the Tragic in Western Literature, Part 3 of 4
Peter Burian, Eugene Falk, Peter Smith, and Robert ter Horst discuss how literary and dramatic conceptions of tragedy in Western literature broadly connect to personal issues such as the family and religion and to wide cultural issues such as social classes, … Continue reading
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Tagged Literature, Religion, Tragedy
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Notions of the Tragic in Western Literature, Part 2 of 4
Peter Burian, Eugene Falk, and Peter Smith discuss important continuities and divergences that connect ancient and modern conceptions of tragedy. Robert ter Horst joins the conversation by addressing how some of these notions of the tragic find literary and dramatic … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeschylus, Eugene O'Neill, Euripides, Tragedy
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