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The Neurodiverse Family (Previously Recorded 2022 Conference Talk)
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- This is recording of a previous talk from Angelina Stanford as part of the 2022 Back to School Online Conference – “The Neurodiverse Family.” Runtime: 1 session, 249 minutes
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2027 Literary Life Conference
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- The Tower and the Ruin: Rebuilding the Literary Life Six Sessions for ONE LOW PRICE. Available live or later for recorded viewing. Once upon a time, a man inherited a field in which was an accumulation of old stone, part of which had been an old hall. He took some of the stones and built a tower. But his friends–without…
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Prisoners of Time: Why Reading Ghost Stories Matters (Webinar)
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- Join Addison Hornstra on October 29th for a discussion of the ghost story tradition and why it matters. Perhaps the ghost story gives us a vital insight into what it means to be human living in the prison of Time. Discover why it is that ghost stories are not told to scare us, but to give us courage. The Literary…
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Bunyan’s Progress: The Life and Genius of an English Puritan (Webinar)
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- In 1678 there appeared a book that told the remarkable story of an unremarkable man's journey to Paradise and the dangers he encountered along the way. Its author was a little-known Non-conformist evangelist who had more than once been jailed for unlicensed preaching. He was a veteran of the English Civil War and had grown up poor, with very little…
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A Look Back at the Future: 100 Years of Science Fiction (Webinar)
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- For close to a century Science Fiction has been one of the most popular—and one of the least critically respected—genres of fiction. This lecture follows the evolution of Science Fiction from its origins in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to its present-day pop-culture dominance, paying particular attention to the way the genre separated from its siblings Fantasy and Horror. We will trace…
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Tolkien’s Creation (16-Week Class)
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- Although J.R.R. Tolkien is one of the best-selling and most influential writers of the past 100 years, it took the massive popular-culture success of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films to get academia to begin to grudgingly recognize his literary achievement. Last century, when I was interviewing for my first academic job, I was advised to “tone down” my…
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What Became of the Weaving Maid’s Spindle? An Introduction to Chinese Folklore (Webinar)
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- We are familiar with the folktales, legends and myths that build the imaginative framework of Western literature. We know the answer to questions like: How did Red Riding Hood escape the great Wolf's belly? or Why does Demeter weep each winter? But we have no idea who shot down nine suns and saved the world from burning or what became…
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Players on a Cosmic Stage: The Grammar of Nature in Shakespeare (Mini-Class)
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- We all know of The Great Bard, Shakespeare. We are all at least vaguely familiar with the natural world that surrounds us. It may be the case, though, that a relationship with the one actually relies at least partially upon a relationship with the other. The plays of Shakespeare are full of a common language of the land: birds, flowers,…
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The Chronicles of Narnia: A Complete Transmutation (Mini-Class)
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- The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis offers readers a dazzling world full of Greek myth, medieval cosmology, modern philosophy, and an enduring love for story. While the series might appear to some as an apparent grab-bag of creative fixtures from time’s attic, the Chronicles in both genre and form weave together these disparate threads into an ordered tapestry which…
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Mary Poppins: Venus in a Blue Coat with Silver Buttons (Webinar)
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- P.L. Travers wrote, “Myths come, it is true, from the ancient past, but it is no less true that they, like the traditions round which they gather, are constantly being rediscovered, renewed and restated.” Enter Mary Poppins, part-Goddess, part-Celtic Warrior Fey, full-time nanny with a parrot umbrella. Like Venus pulling aside the veil to reveal the work of the gods…
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The Great Divide: Overcoming Modern Illiteracy (Previously Recorded 2026 Conference Talk)
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- This is recording of a previous talk from Angelina Stanford as part of the 2026 Literary Life Online Conference. Runtime: 1 session, 175 minutes
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Tell Me that Story Again: How The Pilgrim’s Regress Wrote C. S. Lewis (Webinar)
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- “As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.” This quotation from Proverbs 25:25 follows the title of C. S. Lewis’s The Pilgrim’s Regress, and it evokes the by now very Lewisian idea of sehnsucht, that sweet, painful longing for some unnamable thing just out of reach. Lewis, in his preface to the third…
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