Podcasts about dan brown's inferno

On Thursday February 5th, 2015 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will present a discussion on the recent Dan Brown novel "Inferno" and the the cult of Transhumanism that it seems to advocate. This is a highly controversial subject and deals with issues that are deeply challenging from a moral and ethical position. We will also go back to an earlier novel by H.G. Wells "Men like Gods" which deals with the same issues and projects a genetically perfected future utopia that seems to be the goal of the transhumanists. We will compare this form of human elitism with the process of Hermetic self development and ask ourselves which way we would rather follow to become "more than human?" So tune in and find out what's coming in the next 100 years.  

In this episode Tom discusses Dan Brown's Book Inferno and how it may not be as much of a work of fiction as we think!  Tom discusses the history of how we came to this position to help enlighten healthcare's various myths.

‘Dante and Shakespeare divide the modern world between them: there is no third’ —T.S Elliot The most towering epic poem in Western literature, save perhaps the works of Homer, is Dante's Divine Comedy. In this episode we are going to talk about the history of the poem, how it was understood across the centuries, and what it has to say to 21st man today. And our guest is perhaps the most qualified person on the planet to do so. Anthony Esolen is a literature professor and Dante scholar who released an acclaimed translation of Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise. He has been praised for marrying sense with sound, poetry with meaning, capturing both the poem’s line-by-line vigor and its allegorically and philosophically exacting structure. In our interview we discuss Esolen's translation decision to ditch systematic line-by-line rhyming in favor of blank verse to retain the poem's original “meaning and music,” why Dan Brown's Inferno is so transcendentally terrible a book, and what Dante has to say to a modern world that has exchanged an authentic culture for mindless mass entertainment. ABOUT ANTHONY ESOLEN Anthony Esolen is a professor of English Renaissance and classical literature, a writer, social commentator, and translator of classical poetry. He has taught at the university level for decades and joined Thomas More College of Liberal Arts this fall. Besides Dante, he has translated Lucretius' On the Nature of Things, and Torquato Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered. Along with his academic work he has written more than 500 articles forThe Claremont Review of Books, First Things, and Touchstone magazine. RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE Anthony Esolen's translation of Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise “Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture” “Dan Brown's Infernal Fiction” TO HELP OUT THE SHOW Leave an honest review on iTunes. Your ratings and reviews really help and I read each one. Subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher

We talk Odd Man Out, the classic 1947 British thriller from Third Man director Carol Reed.  It stars James Mason as Johnny McQueen, the leader of an Irish revolutionary group who ends up running for his life after a botched robbery attempt.  His love interest is played by Kathleen Ryan and the eccentric artist he runs into on his journey is Robert Newton.  There's Hot Date talk of Irish accents, rich production design, the beauty of Robert Krasker's cinematography and the eccentric and eclectic acting.   We also catch up with where Dan and Vicky have been and what they've seen.  Vicky talks about her family trip to Florida and Dan his Halloween week adventures.  Horror gore-meister Lucio Fulci enters the discussion again as does the Showtime series Penny Dreadful.  Recent big screen talk veers to Dan Brown's Inferno, horror sequel Ouija: Origin of Evil, and the Emily Blunt starring The Girl on the Train.  And then there's the controversial Walking Dead season 7 premiere -- Dan and Vicky have definite thoughts on the show and the backlash.  Listen for some great 1947 tunes that play throughout the podcast. Don't be the Odd Man Out.  Listen now to Hot Date 39 and leave us some feedback on our iTunes page.  

This week, Rebecca and Jeff talk about a new ebook-only university library, Dan Brown's Inferno coming to the big screen, the onslaught of self-published titles, new books, and much more. This week's episode is sponsored by Squarespace, TryAudiobooks.com, and Bombay Blues by Tanuja Desai Hidier.

Jeff and Rebecca talk about finishing Dan Brown's Inferno, along with discussions Stephen King's new print-only novel, Amazon's foray into fan-fiction, turning unproduced movies into books, a hypothetical app to see what the people around you are reading, and the vagaries of airplane reading. This week's episode is sponsored by Nolet's Silver Dry Gin and Start Here, Volume 2.