Hello everyone! In today’s episode, I would like to explore a bit the two sides of translation and a bit of its history. All references can be found on my website https://annsannotations13.blogspot.com - where you could also read the written ve

Multilingual Poetry

Jul 28th, 2021 29m 46s

Hello everyone! Welcome back to another episode! Today I will be sharing with you my thoughts on the multilingual poetry scene, and how I feel that there could still be more of it in the anglophone world. If you have any questions/ thoughts, yo

Gods in Exiles: Paganism in Modern Literature

Mar 27th, 2021 28m 24s

Hello! Welcome back! In today’s episode, I will be discussing my thoughts on this theme of ‘Gods in Exile’ and how I feel paganism is being used in modern literature. I hope you guys enjoy it, and anything please do dm me on Instagram @annsanno

My rambling about Hades and Persephone

Feb 21st, 2021 38m 35s

Hello everyone! Welcome to another episode; it is a chaotic one. In this episode I would just like to share with you my thoughts on the Greek myth of Hades and Persephone and anything I was able to connect to it. Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy t

Medical Gothic

Jan 15th, 2021 23m 29s

Hello everyone, welcome back to another episode! Today, I will be talking to you about my thoughts on the idea of ‘Medical Gothic’ - the horror of our body and the ethics of medicine. I think this is a pretty interesting topic as it overlaps wi

‘Drive Your Plow’ and Ecocriticism

1 Jan 1st, 2021 20m 32s

Hello everyone! Welcome back to another episode! First one of the New Year. Today, I am going to talk about my thoughts on the novel ‘Drive Your Plow Over the bones of the Dead’ by Olga Tokarczuk, and how it relates to the literary theory of ec

Pleasure and Suffering in French Poetry

Dec 11th, 2020 19m

Hello everyone! Welcome back to another episode. Today I will be discussing my annotations of some French poems, in relations with the theme of pleasure and suffering. I hope you guys enjoy it and any feedbacks, please dm me on instagram @annsa

‘Paradise of the Blind’ - a review

Oct 30th, 2020 22m 10s

Hello everyone! In today’s episode I will be talking about a novel called ‘Paradise of the Blind’ by Vietnamese author Duong Thu Huong. (Do excuse me if I keep saying Paradise for the Blind) It takes place around late 19th century, a textile wo

Fiction and reality

Oct 18th, 2020 26m 14s

Hello everyone- welcome to another episode! I will try to do something at least once a month now - since I am getting busy with school. Anyway in today’s episode I will explore a bit of a big concept: fiction and reality. I hope you find it int

Amorality in French Literature

Sep 5th, 2020 27m 17s

Hello everyone! And welcome to another episode, sorry for the delay in schedule. Today, I will be discussing the aspect of ‘amorality’ in some 20th century French literature and a bit of its motif and some questions that these texts raise. Hope

A Literature for Consolation

Aug 14th, 2020 22m 58s

Hello everyone! In today’s episode I will be exploring something I call “Literature for consolation”, a sort of purposeful escapism. In order to discuss this, I will be talking about ‘Atonement’; ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf’; ‘Shutter Islan

Just two A-level Literature students talking

Jul 31st, 2020 1h 1m

Hello everyone! Welcome to this week’s special episode: I am recording it with a friend! This is going to be a chill discussion about literature and things - yeah, just two A-level literature students talking about...literature. Anyway, we hope

Children’s Gothic

Jul 17th, 2020 30m 51s

Hello everyone! In this week’s podcast episode, I will be discussing the genre of Children’s Gothic, and the role of children in gothic literature in general - that I have read so far. Hope you all enjoy it and let me know what you guys think!

An “acute consciousness”

Jul 3rd, 2020 29m 25s

Hello everyone! In today’s episode, I will be talking about the idea of “acute consciousness”. I will be discussing this through the novels of “Notes from the Underground”, “No Longer Human” and again...”Hamlet”. I hope you guys enjoy it and if

Bonus

[Re-]Appropriating words: The conundrum of stigmatised words

Jun 26th, 2020 31m 25s

Hello everyone... to this bonus episode? Today I would just like to share with you some of my thoughts on the discourse surrounding re/ appropriation of words - particularly stigmatised words. This is just a fruit for thought, so I would love i

An Immigrant Experience

Jun 18th, 2020 57m 40s

Hello everyone! Welcome back to another episode! Today I will be discussing about the immigrant literature. I will be looking at this topic through ‘Americanah’ by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, ‘The Kite Runner’ by Hosseini and two other novels tha

Revenge and avenge: utilitarian murders

Jun 5th, 2020 33m 5s

Hello everyone! In today’s episode. I will be sharing with you some of my thoughts on the idea of utilitarian murders, as explored through Hamlet, Raskolnikov and Light Yagami. Are utilitarian murders ever justified? What are the consequences?

Kingdom of Heaven: a short rant :)

May 23rd, 2020 23m 8s

Hello everyone! I hope you are all doing well. Today’s episode is going to sound a bit like a rant about the movie ‘Kingdom of Heaven’. But do hear me out! I am going to talk about my issues with the revisionist interpretation of this movie. So

Story as a valuable currency

May 17th, 2020 16m 26s

Hello everyone! Welcome back to another episode. Today, I would like to share with you my thoughts on ideas surrounding narratives and stories. I took inspiration from what I have read in ‘Arabian Nights’ by Andrew Lang, and the reimagined work

Howl’s Moving Castle: a short analysis

May 4th, 2020 18m 33s

Hello! Today, I would like to share with you all a favourite story of mine: Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Jones. I also love this story thanks to the movie adaptation made by Studio Ghibli. In this episode, I intend to talk about what I find qu

Female ghosts in Asian narratives

Apr 19th, 2020 38m 45s

Today, I am going to expand on what I have said previously about female ghosts in Asian Gothic. I hope you guys don’t mind a few grammar mistakes, since English is not my first language, and I was rambling on at some points and had a few slip o

Asian Gothic - an overview

Apr 4th, 2020 18m 18s

Hi! Welcome to the first episode! Today I will be talking about my thoughts on Asian Gothic, after I felt inspired by an essay about it. The content is more like an overview, but if you guys would like me to go into details, please do let me kn