Episode 45: Jim Phelan & Kent Puckett — Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

In this episode of the Project Narrative Podcast, Jim Phelan and Kent Puckett discuss the 1817 edition of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” Kent Puckett is Professor and Ida May and William J. Eggers Jr. Chair in the Department of English at the University of California at Berkeley. Puckett’s areas of expertise include narrative theory, the novel, critical theory, film, and 19th century British literature and culture. Puckett’s books include Bad Form: Social Mistakes and the Nineteenth-Century Novel and Narrative Theory: A Critical Introduction, which won the Perkins Prize from the International Society for the Study of Narrative for the best book published in 2016. Puckett is also the author of War Pictures: Cinema, Violence, and Style in Britain, 1939-1945, and The Electoral Imagination: Literature, Legitimacy, and Other Rigged Systems. Jim Phelan has also now passed the editorial torch for the journal, Narrative, to Kent Puckett and Marta Figlerowicz.