Desecrating the Canon

A group of canonized, dead authors hang out in the afterlife.

Desecrating the Canon is tragicomedy that offers myriad meanings and commentary. Strictly
speaking, it is a procedural literary satire set in the afterlife, a strange world populated with the deceased canonized authors who fill our academic literature and philosophy anthologies today.

Structurally, each episode of Desecrating the Canon exists as a stand-alone journey. Some
characters progress to the following episodes for continuity; most others have their stories resolved in a single episode (allowing for greater latitude in satirical subject matter).

Each story arc ultimately gravitates toward one common feature, a prolonged attempt to cope with the eternity of contemplation that comes with the afterlife. This is a world in which knowledge and
immortality form a double-edged sword, the upshot being a sort of intellectual
purgatory.

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SEASON ONE EPISODE LIST

Episode One: Samuel Beckett Learns to Love
Themes – Authority, Love, Authenticity, Creativity

Episode Two: Jean-Paul Sartre Goes too Hard
Themes – Freedom, Authenticity

Episode Three: Sigmund Freud Takes a Nap
Themes – Dreams, Reality, Desire

Episode Four: Ernest Hemingway Buys a New Car
Themes – Gender, Masculinity

Episode Five: Aldous Huxley Goes to Disneyland
Themes – Comedy, Drama, Happiness, Authenticity

Episode Six: Emily Dickinson Is Such a Babe
Themes – Creativity, Death, Negativity, Femininity

Episode Seven: Charles Bukowski Gets a 401K
Themes – Materialism, Solidarity

Episode Eight: Friedrich Nietzsche Finds Religion
Themes – Faith, Skepticism, Divinity, Profanity

Episode Nine: Edgar Allan Poe Develops a Green Thumb
Themes – Nature, The Supernatural

Episode Ten: Kurt Vonnegut Opens an Aviary
Themes – Peace, Authority