Waywords Podcast
Education Podcasts
Join me, Steve Chisnell, as we find and lose meaning across modern and classic tales, through ancient and distant verse, atop everything in our many cultures which might be read. A great podcast for teachers, students, and lovers of reading!
Location:
United States
Genres:
Education Podcasts
Description:
Join me, Steve Chisnell, as we find and lose meaning across modern and classic tales, through ancient and distant verse, atop everything in our many cultures which might be read. A great podcast for teachers, students, and lovers of reading!
Twitter:
@WaywordsStudio
Language:
English
Contact:
2483468166
Website:
https://waywordsstudio.com/
Email:
steve.chisnell@gmail.com
Episodes
Waypoint – “The Doll” by Daphne du Maurier
12/21/2022
A Winter Solstice tale of a peculiar kind of terror, this story was recently discovered (2011) among a collection of du Maurier's works completed around the age of 21. This story has mature themes.
Duration:00:38:03
Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” – Part 2
10/16/2022
We accuse Marvell of verbal assault and find that he was hardly alone.
Duration:00:35:23
Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” – Part 1
10/7/2022
What do we do with--how do we read--can we make us of--a classic and famous metaphysical poem which is also misogynistic?
Duration:00:33:09
Waywords Podcast Update – Sept 30
9/30/2022
The Waywords Podcast is back with new episodes beginning next week!
Duration:00:01:06
Irony and Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”
7/12/2022
An introduction or review to the concept of irony in literature, helpful to those who want to better understand the "twist" ending to the story.
Duration:00:11:35
Reading of Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”
6/20/2022
A reading of the short story in anticipation of our first full episode on the Kate Chopin short. story. “There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully.”
Duration:00:08:27
Pearson’s Archetypes
1/15/2022
Carol Pearson's work following Carl Jung offers us a way to transform our understanding of our own lives, and also how we read the narratives we have so long been taught. I review her strategies for using the archetypes and review her online assessment tool, the Pearson-Marr Archetype Indicator.
Duration:00:24:57
Waypoint: Theophile Gautier’s “Clarimonde”
12/23/2021
A reading of "Clarimonde," an appropriately creepy story befitting the tradition of Winter Solstice ghost stories. This story in French is titled "La Morte Amoureuse."
Duration:01:25:29
Irony and Narrative Distance
12/11/2021
Are writers responsible or accountable for what they write? What about readers for what we interpret? How a writer's use of narration can create irony.
Duration:00:23:08
Van Gogh – Immersive Exhibits – Episode 4
12/4/2021
How do digital art experiences change our reading of original works? Should they be considered a new genre to read?
Duration:01:06:51
The Original
11/26/2021
Why do we defend a canonical "original?" Where does such an idea come from? We discuss what we mean to place a text with authority and visit The Lord of the Rings and "Fur Elise" along the way.
Duration:00:14:07
Adichie – “Tomorrow is Too Far” – Episode 3
11/19/2021
How does one read a story which creates its own rules? What else should we ever do? A sociological look at Adichie's intersectionality.
Duration:00:57:47
False Consciousness – Authoring Good and Evil
11/12/2021
A discussion of our urge to simplify our thinking and reading, including its impact of misinterpretation and loss of compassion.
Duration:00:16:07
False Consciousness – Authoring Good and Evil
11/12/2021
A discussion of our urge to simplify our thinking and reading, including its impact of misinterpretation and loss of compassion.
Duration:00:16:08
Anonymous – “Fowles in the Frith” – Episode 2
11/5/2021
How do we determine the meaning of a work which has no author? And what responsibility is there in authoring our own interpretation? We examine the potential meanings of this poem, dig at length into the different ideas of medieval authorship, and find we may have not have wandered yet that far, at all.
Duration:01:00:40
Anonymous – “Fowles in the Frith” – Episode 2
11/5/2021
How do we determine the meaning of a work which has no author? And what responsibility is there in authoring our own interpretation? We examine the potential meanings of this poem, dig at length into the different ideas of medieval authorship, and find we may have not have wandered yet that far, at all.
Duration:01:00:38
Intentional Fowls and Fallacies
10/29/2021
A discussion of the Intentional Fallacy in determining meaning. Are the early theorists right that all of the meaning is in the text alone? Is the author irrelevant? What does that mean for me as a reader?
Duration:00:23:02
Intentional Fowls and Fallacies
10/29/2021
A discussion of the Intentional Fallacy in determining meaning. Are the early theorists right that all of the meaning is in the text alone? Is the author irrelevant? What does that mean for me as a reader?
Duration:00:23:02
WayPoint: Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market”
10/22/2021
WayPoint: A reading of Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market." wondering how her work might respond to Chopin, how she anticipates the role of author and reader.
Duration:00:26:54
Kate Chopin’s “The Story of An Hour” – Episode 1
10/15/2021
Where do we place the tragedy in Kate Chopin's short story? Is it in the protagonist's failure to escape or her failure to believe she can?
Duration:00:57:48