{"id":14282,"date":"2021-02-23T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T14:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=14282"},"modified":"2021-02-23T10:18:35","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T15:18:35","slug":"episode-422-anahid-nersessian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-422-anahid-nersessian","title":{"rendered":"Episode 422 – Anahid Nersessian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 422:
\nAnahid Nersessian<\/a><\/p>\n

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“I’ve never had a period of separation from Keats, like I’ve had with other authors (or bands) that I love.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Let’s commemorate the 200th anniversary of John Keats’ untimely death with a conversation with Anahid Nersessian<\/a>, author of Keats’ Odes: A Lover’s Discourse<\/a> (University of Chicago). We get into how she read Keats’ letters to Fanny Brawne at WAY<\/em> too young an age, how she’s lived with his poems since childhood and how they’ve changed for her over the years, and why it kills her that no one has disinterred Fanny’s final letters to Keats (which he never read and are buried with him). We talk about her relationship to the western canon, the implicit (and explicit) sexual violence of Ode on a Grecian Urn<\/em><\/a>, her harassment by a Latin teacher in high school and how it affected her career path, Keats’ radicalist, proto-Marxist tones and the benefits of reading The Communist Manifesto<\/a> in funny voices as a 7th grader. We also discuss what it’s like to have a couple of strict old-school Freudians for parents, why she doesn’t have time for social media (and why she didn’t go overboard integrating her personal experiences into the book), the thread of Keats’ Odes that has led to her next book on the Cato Street Conspiracy<\/a>, and more. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go read Keats’ Odes: A Lover’s Discourse<\/a>!<\/p>\n

“Keats and Marx share a horizon or an ambition for human beings, a horizon of freedom realized in social life.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n