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The Politics Of Shelley: History, Theory, Form, Matthew C. Borushko | Editor

Matthew Borushko

“Robert Zemekis’ Contact As A Late Twentieth-Century Paradiso.”, Gregory M. Sadlek

Gregory M Sadlek

The film Contact employs a plot and literary motifs that are in many ways parallel to those in Dante's Paradiso. Although the film's philosophical and theological content has received mixed reviews, the film has deep significance because it not only seeks to convey a religious experience but also offers a kind of existential consolation similar to that offered by Dante. This is true even though the film is grounded in a vision of the numinous that is congruent not with the Dante's cosmos but with late twentieth-century science and cosmology. Contact, then, is a Dantean film that can be embraced …

Percy Shelley's A Defence Of Poetry: A Discussion, Maureen N. Mclane, Eric Alan Weinstein, Omar Miranda, Colin Jagaer, Susan Wolfson

Eric Alan Weinstein

An Addendum to the Unbinding Prometheus Project's Penn Shelley Seminars at UPenn; filmed at The offices of the English Department of NYU in New York City, Kelly Writers House at U Penn, and the office of Susan Wolfson, English Dept, McCosh Hall, Princeton University. Materials published in OpenLearning's The Great Poem Series Shelley MOOC. --- Eric Alan Weinstein

Considering Shelley's England In 1819: Penn Shelley Seminar Series (2 Of 3), Eric Alan Weinstein

Eric Alan Weinstein

Part of the Unbinding Prometheus Project's Penn Shelley Seminars at Upenn; materials published in OpenLearning's Great Poem Series Shelley MOOC. Eric Alan Weinstein.

Some Comments On Percy Shelley & The Thought Of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Eric Alan Weinstein, Monika Lee

Eric Alan Weinstein

Part of the Unbinding Prometheus Project's Penn Shelley Seminars at Upenn; materials published in OpenLearning's Great Poem Series Shelley MOOC. Eric Alan Weinstein.

The Figure Of Prometheus & The Revolutionary Moment, Eric Alan Weinstein

Eric Alan Weinstein

A short talk about Percy Shelley, his family, the French and American Revolutions, and the importance of the figure of Prometheus in the Romantic era.

Penn Shelley Seminar Series, featured in OpenLearnings's Unbinding Prometheus MOOC on Percy Shelley. Part of The Great Poems Series.

Eric Alan Weinstein

Reading Aloud: Lord Byron's Prometheus, Eric Alan Weinstein

Eric Alan Weinstein

A reading of Lord Byron's poem, Prometheus by Eric Alan Weinstein. Penn Shelley Seminar Series, featured in OpenLearnings's Unbinding Prometheus MOOC on Percy Shelley. Part of The Great Poems Series. Unit 1, Module 2 (Prometheus Cluster), Video 2 Recorded at Van Pelt Library, Fall term, 2014.

Ideas Which Shaped Shelley, Ideas Shelley Shaped, Eric Alan Weinstein, Monika Lee

Eric Alan Weinstein

Part of the Unbinding Prometheus Project's Penn Shelley Seminars at UPenn; materials published in OpenLearning's Great Poem Series Shelley MOOC. Eric Alan Weinstein

Considering Lord Byron's Prometheus: Binding And Form: Penn Shelley Seminar Series (1 Of 3), Eric Alan Weinstein

Eric Alan Weinstein

Part of the Unbinding Prometheus Project's Penn Shelley Seminars at UPenn; materials published in OpenLearning's Great Poem Series Shelley MOOC. Eric Alan Weinstein

Considering Shelley's England In 1819: The Context Of Langston Hughes: Penn Shelley Seminar Series (3 Of 3), Eric Alan Weinstein

Eric Alan Weinstein

Part of the Unbinding Prometheus Project's Penn Shelley Seminars at UPenn. Materials published in OpenLearning's Great Poem Series Shelley MOOC.

Considering Lord Byron's Prometheus: Stanza 2 & 3: Penn Shelley Seminar Series (3 Of 3), Eric Alan Weinstein

Eric Alan Weinstein

Part of the Unbinding Prometheus Project's Penn Shelley Seminars at UPenn; materials published in OpenLearning's Great Poem Series Shelley MOOC. --- Eric Alan Weinstein

Considering Shelley's England In 1819: The Context Of Blake's London: Penn Shelley Seminar Series (1 Of 3), Eric Alan Weinstein

Eric Alan Weinstein

Part of the Unbinding Prometheus Project's Penn Shelley Seminars at UPenn; materials published in OpenLearning's Great Poem Series Shelley MOOC. Eric Alan Weinstein.

On Reading & Teaching The Modern Long Poem, With Reference To Williams's 'Paterson' & Two Passages From Eliot's 'The Waste Land', Eric Alan Weinstein, Alan Filreis

Eric Alan Weinstein

Eric Alan Weinstein and Al Filreis spent some time in the Wexler Studio of the Kelly Writers House talking about the problematics of the modern long poem. Can it be taught? Why is it so challenging, despite its central importance? The discussion is intentionally general at first, but soon Eric and Al turn to Eliot's The Waste Land, and in particular to two modally quite distinct passages from the poem. This is a PennSound podcast, number 46 in the ongoing series. To see all episodes at once please see the PennSound archive. To see the series as part of Jacket2 …