Pride and Prejudice - Literacy

About this episode

This episode kicks off a series on Pride and Prejudice, exploring literary literacy and the deeper themes of the novel.

Welcome to Academia Unlocked, our new literary deep-dive series on Book Talk for BookTok! In this episode, we kick off our Pride and Prejudice series and discuss literary literacy. With over 13 years of combined academic training in literature and creative writing, we walk listeners through the foundational tools of reading beyond the surface. The book community talks about the “decline of literacy” constantly, but almost no one stops to define what literary literacy actually is, or how to build it. This series exists to change that. We start by pushing back on the most common read of Pride and Prejudice: that it’s a charming romance about a witty woman who ends up with a brooding rich man. We explore how the novel is doing something far more precise, functioning as a social satire with surgical irony, a study in the performance of class and gender, and a text that rewards close reading on nearly every page. Whether you’ve read Pride and Prejudice five times or are coming to it fresh, this episode will give you the critical lens to engage with it (and any book) with more depth, more confidence, and a lot more to say. The Subtext Society Journal…

People in this episode

Host: Cloud10

Topics covered

• literary literacy
• Pride and Prejudice
• social satire
• class and gender
• close reading

Keywords

• literary literacy
• Pride and Prejudice
• social satire
• class
• gender
• close reading
• academic training

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Subtext Society Journal

Books & works: Pride and Prejudice

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