Lol. Tempest studies is a mine-field, impossible to get a survey of it from diverse perspectives--here just the esotericists, anti-colonialists, and philosophers--without a lot of compiling. Also, it's the only way to condense weeks of fascinating reading into a few hours that students can absorb. Lastly, all the excellent Tempest lectures I found on youtube.com tend to be about fewer aspects, and don't zoom out into the breadth of the secondary lit, so figured a time-stamped overview of (admittedly a fraction of the interesting stuff on Tempest out there) would be useful to some.
@@mathiaswarnes6350 are these covertly material for students in a class you actually teach? these are interesting as it is, the colonial studies stuff gets repetitive (i still cant persuade myself its anything valuable, though youre the only person ive seen give it equal credence to philosophy and esoterica). i don't recall if you mention this, but upon first watch i immediately got the impression that the clear pattern of the narrative was numerologically neoplatonic: Alonso-Sebastian-Antonio-Gonzalo / Caliban-Trinculo-Stephano / Ferdinand-Miranda / Prospero = 4 / 3 / 2 / 1 = the descent from politics to comedy to romance then Wisdom (i only recall you slightly intimate this with a casual calling of ferdinand-miranda as a 'dyad')
@@avoidbeing Yes, all the lectures I've posted here are for my CSU Sacramento and Folsom Lake College classes, this series for Phil in Lit, hence this one has introduction plus 3 parts (supposed to be for 3 weeks of classes). Most of the top scholars within academia would give more credence to the anti-colonialist readings these days. I thought Julia Lupton's take on this was really interesting, but also really liked David Green's approach (on youtube). That's a neat observation about Platonic numerology (only issue is it leaves out Adrian and Francisco). Given Neoplatonic interests, you'd probably like Peter Dawkins Tempest book, I recall him covering the numerology side a lot.
😂you mean the long part on postcolonial interpretations of Tempest? Geesh! It’s an established part of Tempest studies and makes good points is why. I don’t think it’s possible to teach Tempest and ignore that whole field, but I guess you find the topic irritating? Which parts? Why?
@@mathiaswarnes6350 I just find being reminded of the current political climate while watching far more engaging topics distracting Compliments on your thoroughly well presented content and your quite obvious depth of knowledge displayed
@@collegesynewave Thanks! Good thing the timestamps make skipping that part easier I guess. But you might miss Lupton’s political theology reading then, which is harder to dismiss as washy tripe I’d say.
