Literary Autopsy

About Literary Autopsy

A production that performs structural, historical, and critical dissections of public domain literature to determine its modern relevance and artistic integrity.

Publisher

Grant Halvick

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

31 Dec 2025

Latest episode

20 May 2026

Latest episodes

21 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   20 May 2026

   Literary Autopsy: 140 Paradise Lost — Toxicology & Verdict

   Toxicology and final verdict on John Milton's Paradise Lost (1674), assembling three toxicological findings — the gender argument, the theodicy, and the closing books — and rendering the determination: living, and formally inexhaustible.

2. 

   19 May 2026

   Literary Autopsy: 139 Paradise Lost — Internal Dissection

   Internal Dissection of John Milton's Paradise Lost (1674) — examining Satan as the poem's formal problem, the epic simile as its primary rhetorical device, Adam and Eve as its formal challenge, and God's speech in Book III as the theological center the poem may not sustain.

3. 

   18 May 2026

   Literary Autopsy: 138 Paradise Lost — External Examination

   External Examination of John Milton's Paradise Lost (1674 twelve-book text) — the opening installment of a three-episode Cold Case arc establishing the poem's biographical circumstances, narrative surface, formal architecture, relationship to the epic tradition, and historical placement.

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