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Literary Nomads
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. For teachers, students, and lovers of reading, we will discover new paths to understanding!
Episodes
Literary NomadsBellow Seizes Our Day
Sure we can philosophize, but what happens when we put carpe diem to the test in the modern world of capital?
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Rilke and Carpe Don’t Rhyme
What is required of us to find the power and meaning in art? in poetry? Is it related to carpe diem? And does it give us any guidance in how to approach…
Literary NomadsCarpe All Over the Place
How far away are we from the original meaning of carpe diem? And does it matter?
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Star Trek: “World Enough and Time”
Can some fan-fiction teach us more about carpe diem than a classic Roman poet?
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Not Horacing Around: Ode 1.11
Can an ancient Roman poet illuminate the concept of carpe diem? Perhaps, but then again . . .
Literary NomadsWriting Back: Answering Marvell
Writing back to authors and their works is essential to the literary culture; it also helps us answer our essential questions. Let's do some of that, then!
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Kipling’s “If” and Irony-Hunting
Where do we find irony, anyway? And how? An answer in an offer of cheese.
Literary NomadsDorian Gray and Difficult Conversations
Where do we find people to talk to about our reading? And what do we say when we find them?
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Reading and Living in Uncertainty
What do we mean by uncertainty in reading? And why do we have to look for it?
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What I Carry With Me
What questions do we carry with us as we leave Marvell's famous poem?
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Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” – Part 4
Who is the speaker in this poem? Who the audience? Who the Marvell?
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Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” – Part 3
We trace Marvell's poetry back to its perhaps distressing roots.
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Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” – Part 2
What did Marvell know and how did he use it? We look at the sexism in the poem and discover how this provocation is hardly unique in the carpe diem tradition.
Literary NomadsMarvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” – Part 1
What do we do with--how do we read--can we make us of--a classic and famous metaphysical poem which is also misogynistic?
Literary NomadsNot My Text! Irony and Ducking Accountability
We consider who is accountable for the text: author, character, or reader, and how writers build a narrative distance in texts to allow irony and meaning to…
Literary NomadsAn Introduction and Irony
What is Literary Nomads, anyway? And what does that have to do with Radiohead, Godzilla, professorial assault, and irony?
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Unwoven Interview #3: Poet Kelly Porter
The final of three full interviews from the book launch of my poetry book Unwoven. Here, poet Kelly Porter and I discuss how consciously writers might think…
Literary NomadsUnwoven Interview #2: Teacher Sarah Rusinowski
The second of three full interviews from the book launch of my poetry book Unwoven. Here, teacher Sarah Rusinowski considers classroom applications for the…
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Unwoven Interview #1: Dr. Jessica Manuel
The first of three full interviews from the book launch of my poetry book Unwoven. Here, Dr. Jessica Manuel digs at some of the themes and motivations for the…
Literary NomadsTrailer: Literary Nomads
The Waywords Podcast is reborn as Literary Nomads: Wider explorations, broader embraces of reading, and (im)practical thinking!
Literary NomadsWaypoint – The Shadow
A Winter Solstice story of 1907, when four women begin to tell stories around the fire. . . .
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Waypoint – The Ghost and the Bone-Setter
A Winter Solstice tale by an old Irish storyteller, maybe even believable . . .
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Waypoint – “The Doll” by Daphne du Maurier
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…
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Pearson’s Archetypes
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…
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Waypoint: Theophile Gautier’s “Clarimonde”
A reading of "Clarimonde," an appropriately creepy story befitting the tradition of Winter Solstice ghost stories. This story in French is titled "La Morte…
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Van Gogh – Immersive Exhibits – Episode 4
How do digital art experiences change our reading of original works? Should they be considered a new genre to read?
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The Original
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…
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Adichie – “Tomorrow is Too Far” – Episode 3
How does one read a story which creates its own rules? What else should we ever do? A sociological look at Adichie's intersectionality.
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False Consciousness – Authoring Good and Evil
A discussion of our urge to simplify our thinking and reading, including its impact of misinterpretation and loss of compassion.
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Anonymous – “Fowles in the Frith” – Episode 2
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…
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Intentional Fowls and Fallacies
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…
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WayPoint: Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market”
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.
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Kate Chopin’s “The Story of An Hour” – Episode 1
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?
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Irony and Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”
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.
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Reading of Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”
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…
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The Waywords Podcast Trailer
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…