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Prophet Song: A Novel about a Totalitarian Takeover in Ireland
Prophet Song: A Novel about a Totalitarian Takeover in Ireland
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Length:
77 minutes
Released:
Jan 23, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
It’s the UConn Popcast, and today we discuss Prophet Song (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023), Paul Lynch’s Booker Prize winning novel about a totalitarian regime coming to power in Ireland. We discuss the novel’s theorization of individual rights and political power, its success in depicting a family’s unraveling and its failures in telling a broader, more universal story. Why have critics lauded this novel, and who is its intended audience? More fundamentally, what is the role of literary fiction in popular culture?
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Released:
Jan 23, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Richard Bourke, “Empire and Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke” (Princeton UP, 2015): Richard Bourke, Professor in the History of Political Thought in the School of History at Queen Mary University of London, began developing his history of Edmund Burke’s political thought in 1991. Empire and Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Bur... by New Books in Irish Studies