Professor Geoff Ward discusses the life and works of David Foster Wallace "When David Foster Wallace hanged himself in 2008, at the age of 46, he was considered by many to be the most gifted and linguistically exuberant American novelist and short story writer of his generation.
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One of Britains most influential literary critics, Terry Eagleton is Distinguished Professor of English Literature at the University of Lancaster, and Visiting Professor at the National University of Ireland, Galway. In addition to his widely known "Literary Theory: An Introduction", Professor Eagleton is the author of over forty books, including "The Ideology of the Aesthetic", and "The Illusions of Postmodernism".
Mark Steel Lectures - Karl Marx. First broadcast November 2003
Imprinting on the world
Bryan Magee host A.J. Ayer to discuss the philosophical movement of the 20th century known as, Logical Positivism. Section 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMlXmLbGKJY Section 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQS9fFg0cGY Section 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip6p6Y7IUrE Section 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cnRJGs08hE
For the indigenous Khanty and Nenets in the block houses and nomad tents near the Western Siberian oil fields, stories of the dead, of spirits, and ghosts are a living tradition. They're a way of encountering fear, evil, and harm. Individual experience and folklore mix in the accounts of reindeer breeders Josif Kechimov and Yuri Vella.
"Endgame" (2000). Director: Conor McPherson Writer: Samuel Beckett Starring: David Thewlis and Michael Gambon. Hamm is blind and unable to stand; Clov, his servant, is unable to sit; Nagg and Nell are his father and mother, who are legless and live in dustbins.