Ch 22-25: Busting Cliffs and Smashing Ceilings

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Lit On Fiction

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The podcast where Eve and Sam peel back the layers of popular fiction then put it all back together season by season. They dive into the social commentary, the literary devices and the tricks we notice that authors employ to create stories that have captured the hearts and imaginations of readers everywhere, while having a great time together talking about the books we love and characters we all love to hate.

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Ch 22-25: Busting Cliffs and Smashing Ceilings

Lit On Fiction

1 hour 28 minutes 36 seconds

1 year ago

Ch 22-25: Busting Cliffs and Smashing Ceilings

Welcome to the World of Crescent City! Eve and Sam discuss Chapters 22, 23, 24 and 25 of Sarah J Maas’ Urban Fantasy series. Spoilers abound so listener beware! Have things to say? Tell us by email at info@litonfiction.com

In this episode we discuss funeral rites and grieving in the Maasiverse, Matriarchial societies, shattering the glass ceiling, the glass cliff, gender roles and power dynamics within the mate bonds across the works of Sarah J Maas, as well as the role of empathy in manipulation as it pertains to power.

Further links discussed in this episode:

On power and empathy:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/power-causes-brain-damage/528711/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/neuroscience-in-everyday-life/202006/the-brain-under-the-influence-power

The Statue in the Cathedral of St. Paul

https://theophanesavery.com/adventures-in-gender-fuckery/2019/05/17/you-sexy-devil-the-story-of-the-genie-du-maal/

On Matriarchy

https://www.amazon.ca/Matriarchal-Societies-Studies-Indigenous-Cultures/dp/1433125129

Not Past it Podcast

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0TQyhslv1MVP31OJZToIFs?si=008ba55be9984009

Books and shows mentioned:

Political Animals (TV series)