Waywords Podcast

  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 ‘suspension of intelligent thought’?”   Complete Resources: https://waywordsstudio.com/project/chopin-story-of-an-hour/ CHAPTERS 00:00      1. Introduction: Chopin & "The Story of An Hour" 04:30      2. Reader-Response: Reading "aesthetically" 09:11      3. Historicism: Train Wrecks and Contexts 14:02      4. Historicism: Published Versions and Original Texts 24:32      5. Modernism: Joyful Irony and Foolishness; Containers 35:31      6. Close Analysis: The "It" from the Window 42:33      7. Classical Thought: Tragedy; Hamartia 46:22      25. Related Works: A Quick List 47:37      26. New Historicism: Authoring Chopin 49:06      27. Literary Mis-Allusions: Victory 52:00      28. Personal Reflection 57:27      29. Closing Credits * *8. Feminism: Thinking on Violence and Silence * *9. Psych Theory: “Freedom from” and Alienation * *10. Sociological Theory: Public & Private Grief; Privilege to Reflect * *11. Structuralism: Semantic intensionality; the Hourglass Structure * *12. Marxism: Traps of Privilege; Bird in a Gilded Cage * *13. Queer Theory: “Heart Trouble” and Silences * *14. Deconstruction: Freedom in the Wild * *15. Dialogics: Voices, Texts, and Readers * *16. Poetry Link: De Maupassant: “Nuit de Neige” * *17. New Sentiment: Our “possession of self-assertion” * *18. Minority Criticism: Absence and Consequence * *19. Philosophy Connections: Existentialism’s “Pour soi” * *20. Post-Colonialism: Mitsein and Self-Determination * *21. Critical Review: Karami and Zohdi’s Feminism * *22. In Pop Culture: 1984’s Film * *23. In the Classroom: Student Bodies and Silences * *24. ToK: Mapping Intensionality *Available to our members on Episode 1+ (the full bonus episode) === The Waywords Podcast is the primary program of Waywords Studio (https://waywordsstudio.com). The podcast posts new material each week, with deep-dive examinations of literature around some common questions or themes and 1-3 smaller supplemental episodes in between the larger programs. Visit us for expanded resources for guests and the Waywords community, for other programs and writing, and for opportunities to support our goal to expand reading. Resources available can include full bibliographies of material referenced, full and partial texts, annotated editions, supplemental and expanded episodes, fictional explorations, teaching and learning resources, additional essays, and online courses. Website:  https://waywordsstudio.com Twitter: @WaywordsStudio Instagram: @WaywordsStudio Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Waywords-Studio-107310977755912 CREDITS: Original music by Randon Myles (https://randonmyles.com/)

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 (https://waywordsstudio.com). The podcast posts new material each week, with deep-dive examinations of literature around some common questions or themes and 1-3 smaller supplemental episodes in between the larger programs. Visit us for expanded resources for guests and the Waywords community, for other programs and writing, and for opportunities to support our goal to expand reading. Resources available can include full bibliographies of material referenced, full and partial texts, annotated editions, supplemental and expanded episodes, fictional explorations, teaching and learning resources, additional essays, and online courses. Website:  https://waywordsstudio.com Twitter: @WaywordsStudio Instagram: @WaywordsStudio Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Waywords-Studio-107310977755912 CREDITS: Original music by Randon Myles (https://randonmyles.com/) USING THIS WORK: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. It is open to be used and adapted for all not-for-profit uses with proper attribution. MLA CITATION: Chisnell, Steve. “Kate Chopin’s ‘The Story of an Hour.’” Waywords Studio, 15 Oct. 2021, https://waywordsstudio.com/project/chopin-story-of-an-hour/.

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.com/project/chopin-story-of-an-hour/  === The Waywords Podcast is the primary program of Waywords Studio (https://waywordsstudio.com). The podcast posts new material each week, with deep-dive examinations of literature around some common questions or themes and 1-3 smaller supplemental episodes in between the larger programs.  Visit us for expanded resources for guests and the Waywords community, for other programs and writing, and for opportunities to support our goal to expand reading. Resources available can include full bibliographies of material referenced, full and partial texts, annotated editions, supplemental and expanded episodes, fictional explorations, teaching and learning resources, additional essays, and online courses.  Website:  https://waywordsstudio.com  Twitter: @WaywordsStudio Instagram: @WaywordsStudio   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Waywords-Studio-107310977755912  CREDITS: Original music by Randon Myles (https://randonmyles.com/) USING THIS WORK: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. It is open to be used and adapted for all not-for-profit uses with proper attribution.  MLA CITATION: Chisnell, Steve. “Reading of Chopin's 'The Story of an Hour.'” Waywords Studio, 20 Sept 2021, https://waywordsstudio.com/general/reading-chopin-story-of-an-hour/ 

    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."   === The Waywords Podcast is the primary program of Waywords Studio (https://waywordsstudio.com). The podcast posts new material each week, with deep-dive examinations of literature around some common questions or themes and 1-3 smaller supplemental episodes in between the larger programs.  Visit us for expanded resources for guests and the Waywords community, for other programs and writing, and for opportunities to support our goal to expand reading. Resources available can include full bibliographies of material referenced, full and partial texts, annotated editions, supplemental and expanded episodes, fictional explorations, teaching and learning resources, additional essays, and online courses.  Website:  https://waywordsstudio.com  Twitter: @WaywordsStudio Instagram: @WaywordsStudio   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Waywords-Studio-107310977755912  CREDITS: Original music by Randon Myles (https://randonmyles.com/) USING THIS WORK: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. It is open to be used and adapted for all not-for-profit uses with proper attribution.