{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"We Live in the Flicker: T. S. Eliot and Dante on the Spaces Between","description":"Ralston College presents a talk by Christopher Snook, Lecturer in the Department of Classics at Dalhousie University, on the influence of Dante\u2019s Purgatorio on two of T.S. Eliot\u2019s most important works: The Waste Land and Four Quartets. Mr Snook attends, in particular, to how Eliot\u2019s treatment of fragments represents at once both a departure from and a return to medieval understandings of the whole. This medieval understanding is evidenced in the \u201cmanifold articulation\u201d of particulars within the architecture of the Gothic cathedral, the literary shape of the Divine Comedy, and the logical structure of the Summa Theologicae. Mr Snook\u2019s lecture was given in the final term of the 2023-24 year of Ralston College\u2019s MA in Humanities program, which focused on the concept of the Whole.    Applications are now open for the upcoming year of the MA in the Humanities program, which will focus on the theme of Fellowship. Apply now.    Authors, Artists, and Works Mentioned in this Episode:    Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologicae Ren\u00e9 Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness Charles Baudelaire, \u201cThe Painter of Modern Life\u201d  T. S. Eliot, \u201cThe Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock\u201d T. S. Eliot, \u201cThe Hollow Men\u201d T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot Dante, The Divine Comedy  T. S. Eliot, The Family Reunion Ezra Pound William Shakespeare, Macbeth John Donne, \u201cNo Man is an Island\u201d  Charles Baudelaire, \u201c\u00c0 une passante\u201d William Shakespeare, The Tempest  George Herbert  Nicene Creed  Augustine, Confessions  Charles Williams Filippo Tommaso Marinetti  Franz Kafka, \u201cBefore the Law\u201d (from The Trial)  Freidrich Schlegel  Pascal, Pens\u00e9es  Michel de Montaigne  Plato, Republic    ","author_name":"The Ralston College Podcast","author_url":"https:\/\/www.ralston.ac\/conversations","html":"