Sacred and Profane Love
By Jennifer Frey
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Episodes: 90
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Sacred and Profane Love is a podcast in which philosophers, theologians, and literary critics discuss some of their favorite works of literature, and how these works have shaped their own ideas about love, happiness, and meaning in human life. Host Jennifer A. Frey is the inaugural dean of the Honors College at the University of Tulsa. The podcast is generously supported by The Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America and produced by Catholics for Hire.
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Episode 72: The 'Sacred' and the 'Profane' with Michael Foley
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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Episode 73: St. Bonaventure's "Journey of the Mind into God" with Carlos Eire
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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Episode 74: Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy" with John Marenbon
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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Episode 75: Ghali's "Beer in the Snooker Club" with Phil Klay
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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Episode 76: James's "The Portrait of a Lady" with Merve Emre
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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Episode 77: Rooney's "Beautiful World Where Are You?" with Rachel Wiseman and Anastasia Berg
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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Episode 78: Law and Literature with Donald Kochan
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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Episode 71: Dana Gioia on the Tragic Thought of Seneca
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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Episode 70: The Poetry of John Donne w/ Lars Engle
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Episode 69: Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian" w/ Aaron Gwyn
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May 24, 2024 |
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Episode 68: The Poetry of Jonathan Swift with Steve Karian
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May 03, 2024 |
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Episode 67: Poetry, Art, and Truth with Carl Phillips
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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Episode 66: Ovid's "The Art of Love" with Julia Hejduk
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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Episode 65: Boris Dralyuk on Nabokov's Pnin
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Episode 64: Patrick Deneen on DeLillo's White Noise
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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The Podcast Returns!
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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Re-run: Episode 43 - The Closing of the American Mind with Brad Carson
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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Re-run: Episode 50 - "Are the Humanities in Crisis" with Zena Hitz and Chad Wellmon
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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Re-run: Episode 45 - Roosevelt Montás on Great Books and Intellectual Transformation
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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Re-run: Episode 41 - James Baldwin is bringing the fire with Dr. Cornel West
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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Re-run: Episode 1 - Redemptive Love and Comic Mercy in the Short Stories of Flannery O'Connor with Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P.
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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Re-run: Episode 55 - Christopher Snyder on Tolkien and Virtue Ethics
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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Re-run: Episode 56 - Dana Gioia on Charles Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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Re-run: Episode 48 - Crime and Punishment with Thomas Hibbs
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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Re-run: Episode 51 - A Canticle for Leibowitz with Christopher Frey
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Jul 08, 2023 |
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Sacred and Profane Love Summer Update
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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Episode 63: St. Augustine's Confessions with Russell Hittinger, Part III
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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Episode 62: St. Augustine's Confessions with Russell Hittinger, Part II
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Episode 61: St. Augustine's Confessions with Russell Hittinger, Part I
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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Episode 60: Randy Boyagoda on Original Prin and Dante's Indiana
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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Episode 59: TS Eliot with Anthony Domestico
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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Episode 58: Justin E.H. Smith on Edgar Allan Poe
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Dec 30, 2022 |
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Episode 57: JM Coetzee on Philosophy, Fiction, and the Academy
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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Episode 56: Dana Gioia on Charles Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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Episode 55: Christopher Snyder on Tolkien and Virtue Ethics
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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Episode 54: Karen Swallow Prior on The Scarlet Letter
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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Episode 53: Paul Mariani on Robert Lowell
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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Episode 52: The Hillbilly Thomists
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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Episode 51: A Canticle for Leibowitz with Christopher Frey
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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Episode 50: "Are the Humanities in Crisis" with Zena Hitz and Chad Wellmon
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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Episode 49: Christopher Beha on Lucky Per
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May 20, 2022 |
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Episode 48: Crime and Punishment with Thomas Hibbs
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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Episode 47: Justin E.H. Smith on Suttree
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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Episode 46: Katy Carl
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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Episode 45: Roosevelt Montas on Great Books and Intellectual Transformation
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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Episode 44: The Tragic Abyss with Dr. Kevin Kambo
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Dec 31, 2021 |
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Episode 43: The Closing of the American Mind with Brad Carson
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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Episode 42: Graham Greene's The Heart of the Matter
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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Episode 41: James Baldwin is bringing the fire with Dr. Cornel West
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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Episode 40: The Tragic Vision of Eugene O'Neill
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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Episode 39: Gabriel Marcel's Thirst
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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Episode 38: The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Aug 29, 2021 |
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Bonus Episode: Matthew Mehan on Children's Literature
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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Episode 37: Boethius and John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces
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Aug 02, 2021 |
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Episode 36: The Realist Poetry of Czeslaw Milosz
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Jun 25, 2021 |
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Episode 35: Morten Hoi Jensen on Jens Peter Jacobsen
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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Episode 34: Dante's Paradiso
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May 17, 2021 |
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 33: Dante's Purgatorio
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 32: The Therapeutic Fiction of David Foster Wallace
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 31: The Hellish Desires of Dante's Inferno
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 30: The Seducer, Self-Creation and The Aesthete
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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Episode 29: Thomas Mann's Death in Venice with Agnes Mueller
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Jan 22, 2021 |
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 28: Agnes Callard on Antigone
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 27: Karen Swallow Prior on Reading Joseph Conrad Well
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 26: St. Augustine and the Index of Self-Destructive Acts
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 25: On Solitude with Rilke and Merton
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 24: On Reading The Plague in a Plague
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 23: Lost in Thought with Zena Hitz
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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Episode 22: Huxley on Love and Longing in the Dystopia
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 21: Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 20: Scruton's Wagner: Sex, Death, and the Sacred
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 19: Love and Lust in Lolita
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 18: Carrying the Flame
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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Episode 17: The Death of a Whisky Priest
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 16: King Lear's Vision
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 15 : Faustian Ambitions
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 14: Walker Percy on Being Lost in the Cosmos
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 13: Jane Austen on the Virtues of Social Life
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 12: Meaning, Murder, and Divine Madness
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 11: The Contemplative Realism of Marilynne Robinson
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 10: A Twitch Upon The Thread
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 9: Revelations of Love in John Steinbeck
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 8: Sophocles and Tragic Love
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 7: Boasts of Love in Troilus and Criseyde
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 6: Elena Ferrante on Friendship and the Intellectual Life
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 5: Eros and Ecstasy
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 4: Fantasy, Romance, and Self-destruction in Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary
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Jan 06, 2021 |
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 3: Walt Whitman on Hope and National Character
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Jan 06, 2021 |
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 2: Transfiguring Love in the Brothers Karamazov
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Jan 05, 2021 |
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 1: Redemptive Love and Comic Mercy in the Short Stories of Flannery O'Connor
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Jan 04, 2021 |