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From the Lighthouse is a literary podcast published out of the Department of English at Macquarie University. Your hosts Dr Stephanie Russo and Dr Michelle Hamadache love to talk about anything to do with books, from the latest bestsellers and prize-winners, film and television adaptations of books to bookish news. Join us as we chat all things literary. For more information visit the MQ English Department webpage at www.engl.mq.edu.au
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Wednesday Nov 28, 2018
Wednesday Nov 28, 2018
To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein we will be releasing recordings from the FrankenReads event at Macquarie University in September.
This week's recording features the following presentations:
“’Yes Master, No Master’: The Cinematic Development of Igor in the Frankenstein Narrative” by Guy Webster
“Monstrous Scions: Frankenstein and Posthumanist Mythology” by Paul Sheehan
Wednesday Nov 14, 2018
Wednesday Nov 14, 2018
To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein we will be releasing recordings from the FrankenReads event at Macquarie University in September.
This week's recording features the following presentations:
“The Tangled World of Frankenstein and Conflict of Laws” by Harry Melkonian
“Frankenstein in Hyperspace: The Return of Twenty-first-century Digital Technologies to the Origins of Virtual Space in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” by Kirstin Mills
Wednesday Oct 31, 2018
Wednesday Oct 31, 2018
To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein we will be releasing recordings from the FrankenReads event at Macquarie University in September.
This week's recording features the following presentations:
“’My Beloved Sister’: The Other Family in Frankenstein” by Lee O’Brien
'Using “the living animal” to re-animate “lifeless clay”: The role of vivisection in the creation of Frankenstein's monster' by Libby King
“’The reflections of my hours of despondency and solitude’: Narrating Solitude in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein” by Geoffrey Payne
For more info and some bonus materials visit our website at: https://www.fromthelighthouse.org