The Swiftie and The Scholar

We are taking it back to the 1920s (and then the 1970s) today with Clara Bow from The Tortured Poets Department. Uncle Jerry talks all about the early film industry, Stevie Nicks, the violence of beauty and fame for women, and so much more. 

Works Cited:
Clara Bow
The Jazz Singer (1927)
Greta Garbo
Douglas Fairbanks
John Gilbert
Michael Curtiz
Casablanca (1942)
The Lodger (1947)
World’s Columbian Exposition (1893)
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
It (1927)
It – Elinor Glyn – Aff Link
Caesura
Horatio Alger
Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller
A Cool Million – Nathanael West – Aff Link
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus – Christopher Marlowe
To an Athlete Dying Young – A. E. Housman
Idle Fame – John Clare
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson – Aff Link
Fame is a fickle food (1659) – Emily Dickinson
Fame is a bee. (1788) – Emily Dickinson
Mirrorball/Clara Bow Mash-up
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We’re back in our folklore era with mirrorball today! Uncle Jerry had some extra time with this one and doesn’t even know where to start the discussion. We get into the uses of mirrors in folklore, how this was made during the pandemic, and discuss the many facets of celebrity. Make sure you come back next week for another song discussing the nature of fame.

Works Cited:
The Philosophy of Reflection: Mirrors as Symbols Across Cultures
Catoptromancy
Through the Looking Glass – Lewis Carroll – Aff Link
Perseus and Medusa
A Discovery of Witches (2018)
'Spirit mirror' used by 16th-century occultist John Dee came from the Aztec Empire
Conceit
Anaphora
Inclusio
Ouroboros
Albertus Magnus and the Magic Mirror
Loafing Him was Bread T-Shirt 
The House of Fame – Geoffrey Chaucer
The Temple of Fame – Alexander Pope
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Call all your friends and cousins, we’re finally covering How Did It End? from The Tortured Poets Department. Uncle Jerry finds tons of beautiful poetics and dark humor in this one, and Angela discusses its connections to both The Prophecy and But Daddy I Love Him. If you want to vote for a specific song for June, join us on Patreon to play along!

Works Cited:
General Reference Pronoun
Autofiction as a Doorway Into Truth
Conceit – Literary term
Come One, Come All – All Time Low
Slant Rhyme
"Now give three cheers" – HMS Pinafore
The Telephone Hour – Bye Bye Birdie
The Raven – Edgar Allan Poe
Annabel Lee – Edgar Allan Poe
To -- -- --. Ulalume: A Ballad – Edgar Allan Poe
Hyperion – John Keats
Ode to a Nightingale – John Keats
A Rose for Emily – William Faulkner
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Buckle up for a long one! We are flooring it through the fences today with But Daddy I Love Him from Taylor Swift’s 2024 album, The Tortured Poets Department. We discuss common movie tropes, conservative small towns, and the lyrics Angela wants to have tattooed from this song.

Works Cited:
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell – Susanna Clarke – Aff Link
East of Eden – John Steinbeck – Aff Link
Rebel With a Cause (1955)
The Notebook (2004)
Inside Daisy Clover (1965)
How The West Was Won (1962)
Anaphora
Epiphora (or epistrophe)
the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls – e.e. cummings
Footloose (1984)
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In this episode, we are tackling marjorie, a track from Taylor Swift’s evermore album from 2020. Uncle Jerry teaches us about sentimentalism in literature, and Angela blows his mind by telling him the real life Marjorie’s backstory. 

Works Cited:
Aphorism
David Hume
Immanuel Kant
Sentimentalism
Sentimental Novels in Early American Fiction
The Man of Feeling – Henry Mackenzie – Aff Link
Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded – Samuel Richardson – Aff Link
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen – Aff Link
A Treatise of Human Nature Paperback – David Hume – Aff Link
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