Literary Autopsy

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.

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.

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.

A standalone Cold Case examination of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922) — External Examination, Internal Dissection, Toxicology, and Verdict — to determine whether the poem still makes demands on a reader willing to meet it without the century of critical scaffolding that has grown around it.

Toxicological examination and final verdict on Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse — the third and final episode of a three-episode Cold Case arc, assembling findings on formal inaccessibility, the contested treatment of Mr Ramsay, and the cultural monument problem before rendering a living...

Internal Dissection of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse — examining the stream of consciousness as Woolf practices it, three key passages, and the novel's central formal problem: that method and argument are inseparable.

External Examination of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse (1927) — mapping the novel's tripartite structure, its cast as structural functions, its autobiographical origins, and its historical placement at the height of Woolf's formal ambition.

Internal Dissection and Verdict for Henry James's The Turn of the Screw (1898) — examining the prose mechanism of the novella's governing ambiguity at the sentence level, then opening to three callers representing the ghost reading, the psychological reading, and the formal-ambiguity reading,...

External Examination of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw (1898): frame structure, narrative surface, the architecture of the novella's governing ambiguity, and historical placement within the late Victorian ghost story tradition.

Whether Chopin's novel was simply ahead of its time — or whether being ahead of one's time is a more complicated finding than it sounds.

Whether Conrad's novella is a diagnosis of imperialism or a symptom of it — and whether that question has a clean answer.

Whether Conrad's novella is a diagnosis of imperialism or a symptom of it — and whether that question has a clean answer.

Whether Conrad's novella is a diagnosis of imperialism or a symptom of it — and whether that question has a clean answer.

Toxicological examination and final verdict on Shakespeare's Hamlet — assembling three findings on Ophelia's structural erasure, the decay of the revenge framework, and the critical apparatus problem, then rendering the determination: living, on conditions.

Internal Dissection of Shakespeare's Hamlet — examining the verse at the level of the line across three key passages, surfacing The Mousetrap as structural mirror, and establishing the finding that in Hamlet the language is the action.

External Examination of Shakespeare's Hamlet — textual plurality, narrative architecture, structural function of principal figures, historical placement, and preliminary finding on the play's central paralysis.

A standalone forensic examination of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) through the complete Cold Case arc — External Examination, Internal Dissection, Toxicology, and Verdict — to determine whether the novel is still alive or whether two centuries of adaptation have consumed the original.

What Genthos Media is, what Literary Autopsy is, and how to listen to it.