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Join us 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. Explore familiar and unfamiliar reads, discovering ways to read, ways to know, and ways to ma

Waterford, Michigan, USA


    • Jan 15, 2022 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 34m AVG DURATION
    • 14 EPISODES


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    Pearson’s Archetypes

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2022 24:57


    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.

    Waypoint: Theophile Gautier’s “Clarimonde”

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2021 85:31


    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."

    Irony and Narrative Distance

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 11, 2021 23:10


    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.

    Van Gogh – Immersive Exhibits – Episode 4

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 4, 2021 66:53


    How do digital art experiences change our reading of original works? Should they be considered a new genre to read?

    The Original

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2021 14:08


    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.

    Adichie – “Tomorrow is Too Far” – Episode 3

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 19, 2021 57:49


    How does one read a story which creates its own rules? What else should we ever do? A sociological look at Adichie's intersectionality.

    False Consciousness – Authoring Good and Evil

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 12, 2021 16:10


     A discussion of our urge to simplify our thinking and reading, including its impact of misinterpretation and loss of compassion.

    Anonymous – “Fowles in the Frith” – Episode 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 5, 2021 60:42


    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.

    Intentional Fowls and Fallacies

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2021 23:04


     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? 

    WayPoint: Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market”

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2021 26:56


    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.

    Kate Chopin’s “The Story of An Hour” – Episode 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 15, 2021 57:52


    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?

    Irony and Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2021 11:39


    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.

    Reading of Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2021 8:28


    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.”

    The Waywords Podcast Trailer

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2021 0:55


    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.

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