It's Lit! - Season 1

It's Lit! - Season 1

Season 1

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Datesjuin 4, 2018 - avr. 18, 2019
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Episodes

When the Book is Better than the Movie
Season 1Episode 1

When the Book is Better than the Movie

Which is better, the book or the movie? Explore the question with host Lindsay Ellis.
juin 4, 2018
The Evolution of YA: Young Adult Fiction, Explained
Season 1Episode 2

The Evolution of YA: Young Adult Fiction, Explained

Young Adult Fiction (YA) is dominating literature, and more young people are reading now than ever before. Lindsay Ellis explores how YA carved a place in publishing.
juin 25, 2018
The Evolution of Science Fiction
Season 1Episode 3

The Evolution of Science Fiction

juil. 16, 2018
An Ode to the Romance Novel
Season 1Episode 4

An Ode to the Romance Novel

Love it or hate it, the romance novel is the highest grossing literary genre. Its history is long and winding (like your favorite romance novel), and romance novels are full of tropes reflected upon its history. It has been the subject of intrigue, derision, and shame in literary discourse long before the modern genre as we know it existed.
juil. 30, 2018
How Fantasy Reflects our World
Season 1Episode 5

How Fantasy Reflects our World

Fantasy novels are more than just hundreds of pages worth of swords and magic! Okay, there's some of that. But it's also a lens to what our society finds important to our pasts, our presents, and future.
août 13, 2018
Why Did They Make Me Read This in High School?
Season 1Episode 6

Why Did They Make Me Read This in High School?

What makes a book important? Why are some books required reading in high school, while others are lost to history?
sept. 4, 2018
Can You Judge a Book by Its Cover?
Season 1Episode 7

Can You Judge a Book by Its Cover?

Despite the adage of not judging a book by its cover, there’s a lot of time, intent, and money spent creating memorable book covers. Get to know the story behind some of literature’s most iconic book covers.
nov. 21, 2018
Fear of GhostWriting
Season 1Episode 8

Fear of GhostWriting

You might being asking yourself-- Why do ghostwriters even exist? Isn’t that cheating? Isn’t literature supposed to be the result of one person’s agonizing need to create? Aren’t books supposed to be the blood, sweat, and tears of the tortured auteur? Well, the answer is more complicated than you think!
déc. 7, 2018
Who Can You Trust? Unreliable Narrators
Season 1Episode 9

Who Can You Trust? Unreliable Narrators

Who is the most powerful character in fiction? Villains may doom the world, heroes may save it, but no one has more control over the plot than the narrator - expositing the who, what, where, when and how directly into the reader’s mind. But how can you tell that the person telling you the story is telling you the whole story?
déc. 17, 2018
Food & Fiction: Memorable Meals in Literature
Season 1Episode 10

Food & Fiction: Memorable Meals in Literature

Food varies wildly from place to place and from culture to culture; since humans are such sensory creatures, using words to evoke the experience of eating is an excellent way to bring a text to life.
janv. 11, 2019
Death, Personified
Season 1Episode 11

Death, Personified

Death as a character reveals how we process one of life’s greatest mysteries, and there’s a lot more breadth to how the grim reaper is depicted than you might think.
janv. 24, 2019
How Greek Mythology Inspires Us
Season 1Episode 12

How Greek Mythology Inspires Us

Ancient Greek Mythology has worked its way into modern pop culture so deeply that it would be an almost Sisyphean task to compile every way it’s manifested!
févr. 7, 2019
The Beauty and Anguish of Les Misérables!
Season 1Episode 13

The Beauty and Anguish of Les Misérables!

Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables is one of history’s most famous novels and one of the longest-running musicals in Broadway history. On this special episode of It’s Lit! we explore how Les Miserable became both a national and revolutionary anthem, and so publicly adored that all 1,900 pages never went out of print.
avr. 18, 2019

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