Waywords Podcast

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!

Episodes

Waypoint – The Ghost and the Bone-Setter

December 21, 2023 • 21 mins

A Winter Solstice tale by an old Irish storyteller, maybe even believable . . .

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Waypoint – “The Doll” by Daphne du Maurier

December 21, 2022 • 38 mins

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.

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Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” – Part 2

October 16, 2022 • 35 mins

We accuse Marvell of verbal assault and find that he was hardly alone.

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Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” – Part 1

October 7, 2022 • 33 mins

What do we do with--how do we read--can we make us of--a classic and famous metaphysical poem which is also misogynistic?

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Waywords Podcast Update – Sept 30

September 30, 2022 • 1 min

The Waywords Podcast is back with new episodes beginning next week!

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Pearson’s Archetypes

January 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.

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Waypoint: Theophile Gautier’s “Clarimonde”

December 23, 2021 • 85 mins

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."

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Irony and Narrative Distance

December 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.

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Van Gogh – Immersive Exhibits – Episode 4

December 4, 2021

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

November 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.

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Adichie – “Tomorrow is Too Far” – Episode 3

November 19, 2021 • 57 mins

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

November 12, 2021 • 16 mins

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

November 5, 2021 • 60 mins

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.

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Intentional Fowls and Fallacies

October 29, 2021 • 23 mins

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?

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WayPoint: Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market”

October 22, 2021 • 26 mins

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

October 15, 2021 • 57 mins

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”

October 1, 2021 • 11 mins

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”

September 20, 2021 • 8 mins

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.”

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The Waywords Podcast Trailer

August 11, 2021 • 55 secs

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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Waywords Podcast

Episodes

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Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” – Part 2

Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” – Part 1

Waywords Podcast Update – Sept 30

Pearson’s Archetypes

Waypoint: Theophile Gautier’s “Clarimonde”

Irony and Narrative Distance

Van Gogh – Immersive Exhibits – Episode 4

The Original

Adichie – “Tomorrow is Too Far” – Episode 3

False Consciousness – Authoring Good and Evil

Anonymous – “Fowles in the Frith” – Episode 2

Intentional Fowls and Fallacies

WayPoint: Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market”

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

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

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

The Waywords Podcast Trailer

Popular Podcasts

Waypoint – The Ghost and the Bone-Setter

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