Podcasts by The Lit-Knitters

Episode 11 - "Remember Me": Honoring the Dead in Coco and "The Altar of the Dead" from 2020-09-01T16:33:44

Jace and Preston look at memory and memorializing the dead in Disney Pixar's Coco and Henry James' 1895 short story "The Altar of the Dead." They weave the common threads and ideas in b...

Episode 10 - Cartoonized Evil and the Constraints of Empathy: Maus and Jojo Rabbit from 2020-05-28T20:21:46

Midway through Season 2 of The Lit-Knitters, Sam, Jace, and Preston reconvene over Zoom to discuss the 2019 film Jojo Rabbit, directed by Taika Waititi, alongside Art Spiegelma...

Episode 9 - Unease and Uncertainty in Pandemics: "White Noise" and COVID-19 from 2020-04-06T17:00:03

Sam, Jace, and Preston shake things up on this episode of "The Lit-Knitters," meeting via Zoom to discuss the current global COVID-19 pandemic in the context of Don DeLillo's 1985 National Book ...

Episode 8 - Realism and Romanticism in War: 1917 and The Red Badge of Courage from 2020-03-23T02:07:29

In this episode, Sam, Jace, and Preston discuss the 2019 Oscar-Award-winning film 1917 (directed by Sam Mendes) and the 1895 American Civil War novel The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane. T...

Episode 7 - Monstrous Anti-Heroes: Grendel and Shrek from 2020-03-16T17:48:56

Welcome to season 2 of The Lit-Knitters! Despite our lengthy hiatus, we're back in business with a new season full of great (albeit nerdy) connections between literature and movies/TV shows/musi...

Episode 6 - Loved Ones Lost: Nostalgia, Coping, and Spousal Death in "Leigia" and The Simpsons from 2019-05-27T22:26:07

In episode 6 of The Lit-Knitters, after a two month hiatus because of college finals, a marriage (Jace and Meghan), and general busyness, Sam and Jace dive into the world of Edgar Allan Poe's sh...

Episode 5 - Fake Fiction: The Things They Carried and Fargo from 2019-04-01T12:00

What does it mean to write or tell a real story? Have you ever wondered how much truth is behind the adage "based on true events"? Sam and Jace with guest Court Einfeldt, discuss Tim O'Brien's V...

Episode 4 - Huge Tiny Mistakes: Arrested Development and "The Gift of the Magi" from 2019-03-28T00:16:19

Have you ever made a huge mistake based on a tiny miscommunication? On this episode of the Lit-Knitters, Sam and Jace talk all about these huge tiny mistakes in "Arrested Development" and O Henr...

Episode 3 - Stranger Neighbors: "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Stranger Things" from 2019-03-11T18:50:49

In this episode of "The Lit-Knitters," Sam and Jace knit together themes of misunderstanding, mistrust, and strange neighbors between Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and Netflix bloc...

Minisode 1 - Getting to Know the Lit-Knitters from 2019-03-11T04:48:26

In this bonus 'minisode', Sam and Jace unravel another "knitting pattern" and get down to the "knitty-gritty" as usual, only this time, they're not talking about a TV show and a work of literatu...

Episode 2 - Striving for Sublimity: Dr. Faustus, Faust, and Breaking Bad from 2019-03-05T05:42:25

On this episode of "The Lit-Knitters" Sam and Jace talk about ideas of striving for sublime experiences and redemption in three great works: Dr. Faustus, Faust, and Breaking Bad. 

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Episode 1 - Shows about Nothing: "Seinfeld and "Waiting for Godot" from 2019-02-21T03:45:24

In the first episode of The Lit-Knitters, Sam and Jace knit together ideas about nothingness, tragicomedy, and 'Costanzian' moments in both "Seinfeld" and "Waiting for Godot." 

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Trailer - Welcome to "The Lit-Knitters" from 2019-02-20T23:09:21

Welcome to "The Lit-Knitters," the podcast where two undergraduate English students, Sam and Jace, knit popular TV and classic literature together. 

Intro Music: www.bensounds.com