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5 November 2021 Episode 2+ BONUS – Fowles in the Frith    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.   Foweles in the frith,...

  28 October 2021 Supplement – 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 irrelevant? What does that mean for me as a reader?    https://waywordsstudio.com   Complete Resources:     https://waywordsstudio.com/project/anonymous-fowls-in-the-frit...

  22 October 2021 WayPoint – Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market”   A reading of “Goblin Market” along with some thinking on Chopin and the forthcoming episode on “Fowls in the Frith.” Does Rossetti’s poem offer a way in to Chopin’s question of ‘freedom from’ men? What can we say of her assertion that this tale “does not mean anything profound”?   https://waywordsstudio.com   Complete R...

  15 October 2021 Episode 1 – Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” https://waywordsstudio.com We begin our wandering with the famous Chopin short story, exploring topics of reading aesthetically, freedom, tragic hamartia , female silencing, and some missteps in reading Victory. “If freedom is not an absolute, then are alienation (Otherness) and ‘monstrous ideas’ always a ‘suspensi...

1 October 2021 Episode 1.2 – Irony and “The Story of an Hour” https://waywordsstudio.com Complete Resources: https://waywordsstudio.com/project/chopin-story-of-an-hour/ CHAPTERS Title 00:15   Introduction to Irony: Definitions 01:47   Verbal Irony 03:58   Situational Irony 05:47   Dramatic Irony 08:26   Epiphany 11:24   Outro The Waywords Podcast is the primary program of Waywords Studio ( h...

20 September 2021 Episode 1.1 – Reading of “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 for it, fearfully.” === Chapters 00:00   Introduction 00:22   Reading 08:03   Outro   https://waywordsstudio.com Complete Resources:   https://waywordsstudio...

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    11 August 2021 Episode 0.1 – 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 which might be read.  I can’t promise what we’ll find along our paths each time, only that you and I will meet it together.    “Not all those who wander are lost.” &#16...