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  What’s the difference between being a passive tourist and a wayfarer? Follow the 17th-century footsteps of Matsuo Basho to interrogate the gap between curated tourist destinations  and the open-ended, ego-stripping realities of true travel. By contrasting the lush, internal landscapes of L.M. Montgomery with the skeletal prose of classical Japanese travel sketches, we ask: Can we ever truly encounter a sovereign landscape, or do our books merely wrap the earth in a comforting postcard illusion? Along the way, we look at the haiku in its haibun form and use Martin Heidegger’s classic distinction between ‘Earth’ and ‘World.’ Can Basho’s haiku lessons rescue us from our egos. Maybe, but 400 years later, other writers have their own responses to him! Episode 7.02 – Grand Tours Pt 2: Bat on the Narrow Road Readings & Resources: Bashō, Matsuo. The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches. Translated by Nobuyuki Yuasa. Montgomery, L. M. The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career. 1917. Montgomery, L. M. The Blue Castle. 1926. Downer, Lesley. On the Narrow Road to the Deep North: Journey into a Lost Japan, 1989 Flanagan, Richard. The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Knopf, 2014. Goldberg, Natalie. Three Simple Lines: A Writer’s Pilgrimage into the Heart and Homeland of Haiku, 2020. Merton, Thomas. The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton, 1973. Glossary: Wayfaring: A mode of travel in which the journey itself becomes the destination and concept of home, characterized by a constant, open-ended wandering rather than arriving at a fixed point.  Haibun: A traditional Japanese literary form that intricately blends prose and haiku poetry so that the two distinct modes of writing interact and illuminate each other.  Noncompletion: An ongoing, unresolved state of existing “between” spaces or ideas, embraced by the wayfarer as the permanent, true condition of a journey that has no final destination.  Listener’s Guide Reflection Questions When you observe a natural setting, how have books influenced your conception of it? Consider the difference between a destination that promises modern amenities and an open-ended un-curated route with no final stop: how does the presence or absence of structural comforts affect your attitude? In tracking your own neighborhood’s daily life, how might an ordinary object to become a site of specific poetic meaning rather than clutter? How does treading a travel guide affect your ability to sit with the silent, un-responding aspects of a foreign town? If you strip your travel history of its status landmarks and souvenirs, what remains? Skeptical Pilgrim Challenges 1:  The Grand Tour – PDF Download   Complete Resources: https://waywordsstudio.com/project/literary-tourism/   CHAPTERS 00:00    Where We’ve Been 01:12     Field Notes and the East 07:20     Intro Theme 07:55     Wayfaring and The Bat 15:26     Earth vs World in the Haibun 23:41     Reversing the Narrow Road 28:11     Closing Credits   === Transcript and Full Bibliography:  https://waywordsstudio.com/general/transcript/7-02-Grand-Tours-2   New to Literary Nomads? Check out my introductory episodes (0.1-0.3) to find out what’s going on here! I’ve got an episode for readers, for teachers, and for students: https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords-podcast/   Have a Question? Want to Comment? Literary Nomads Mailbag   === Literary Nomads is the main program of Waywords Studio (https://waywordsstudio.com). The podcast posts new material each week, with thought-provoking examinations of literature around selected questions or themes and several smaller supplemental episodes in between the larger programs: history, writing, and contemporary applications of ideas. 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 Newsletter: https://waywordsstudio.kit.com/ Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Tumblr, LinkedIn, and BlueSky:  @WaywordsStudio === CREDITS: Original music by Randon Myles (https://randonmyles.com/) Chapter headings by Natalie Harrison and Sarah Skaleski   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. “7.02: Grand Tours Pt 2: Bat on the Narrow Road,” Literary Nomads. Waywords Studio, 26 June 2026, https://waywordsstudio.com/project/literary-tourism/

  Are we consuming an authentic place, or are we willingly participating in a beautifully staged performance designed around our own expectations? In this opening episode of Journey 7, we begin our exploration of literary tourism. When we travel to the places that inspired our favorite books, whose landscape are we actually stepping into? Today. we cross the eight-mile concrete expanse onto Prince Edward Island to investigate the massive, multi-million dollar infrastructure designed to capitalize on Anne of Green Gables. Along the way, we unpack our collective urge to buy raspberry cordials and straw hats. Along the way, we discover the strange history of the historical Grand Tour, and we investigate the “tourist gaze” and how the global tourism industry packages our favorite books into easily consumed souvenirs. If you love travelogues, literary history, or exploring the real-world histories behind famous books like Anne of Green Gables, this episode will challenge the way we view our next vacation destination. Episode 7.01 – Grand Tours Pt 1: The Postcard Illusion Readings & Resources: Montgomery, Lucy Maud. Anne of Green Gables. 1908 Montgomery, Lucy Maud. Anne of the Island. 1915 Montgomery, Lucy Maud. Anne’s House of Dreams. 1917 Montgomery, Lucy Maud. The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery. Edited by Mary Rubio and Elizabeth Waterston Montgomery, Lucy Maud. The Story Girl. 1911 MacLeod, Nicola E. Literary Fiction Tourism: Understanding the Practice of Fiction-Inspired Travel. Routledge, 2024 Glossary: Grand Tour: A traditional, multi-year journey across continental Europe that served as a mandatory educational rite of passage for upper-class, wealthy young men from the 17th to the mid-19th centuries. Officially intended to complete a gentleman’s classical education by exposing him to the art, architecture, and polite society of the Old World, it also provided a socially acceptable escape from parental control to pursue worldly pleasures and construct an elite “martial masculinity.” Tourist Gaze: How travelers view and consume a destination, shaped by what guidebooks and the tourism industry have conditioned them to expect to see.  Skeptical Pilgrim: A traveler who deeply loves a literary work or historical destination but adopts a critical, questioning posture, refusing to passively accept the fictionalized, manufactured reality that a tourist destination attempts to sell them.  Listener’s Guide Reflection Questions When you select a specific souvenir from a location, how does that physical object alter or secure the memory of the real space you left behind? Consider the texts you choose to read versus the places you choose to visit; what makes a comforting historical fiction preferable to a reality of contemporary labor? In analyzing your own home, what is the process of selection behind the display pieces on your shelves, and how do they perform an identity for visitors? How does the presence of a guidebook or a digital travel route affect your ability to notice the un-curated, raw elements of a new place? If you map your immediate neighborhood purely through your senses rather than visual landmarks, how does that shift your understanding of who owns and occupies that space? Skeptical Pilgrim Challenges 1:  The Grand Tour – PDF Download Complete Resources: https://waywordsstudio.com/project/literary-tourism/ CHAPTERS 00:00     Field Notes & Trailhead 0:00:0.000000 05:35     Intro Theme 06:11     Montgomery and Two Worlds 10:53     The Grand Tour and the Invention of the Gaze 17:57     Tourist Gazing 25:40     Skeptic Pilgrim Challenges 28:28     Screens and Modern Escapes 32:54     Closing Credits   === Transcript and Full Bibliography:  https://waywordsstudio.com/general/transcript/7-01-Grand-Tours-1 New to Literary Nomads? Check out my introductory episodes (0.1-0.3) to find out what’s going on here! I’ve got an episode for readers, for teachers, and for students: https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords-podcast/ Have a Question? Want to Comment? Literary Nomads Mailbag === Literary Nomads is the main program of Waywords Studio (https://waywordsstudio.com). The podcast posts new material each week, with thought-provoking examinations of literature around selected questions or themes and several smaller supplemental episodes in between the larger programs: history, writing, and contemporary applications of ideas. 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 Newsletter: https://waywordsstudio.kit.com/ Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Tumblr, LinkedIn, and BlueSky:  @WaywordsStudio === CREDITS: Original music by Randon Myles (https://randonmyles.com/) Chapter headings by Natalie Harrison and Sarah Skaleski 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. “7.01: Grand Tours Pt 1: The Postcard Illusion,” Literary Nomads. Waywords Studio, 19 June 2026, https://waywordsstudio.com/project/le-guin-omelas/.

  Is your reading just an “escape”?? Your favorite “escape” read might be a gated community for your conscience. Today, we interrogate the “Catharsis Commodity” and ask if our reading habits are just another layer of the Hideous Bargain. Explore the ethics of reading and the “Empathy Trap” in this look at the arguments of Suzanne Keen and Louise Rosenblatt. We expand the “Hideous Bargain” to include the very act of consuming this podcast and the literature it discusses. We ask if we are truly “walking away” from the bargain, or if we are merely co-authoring the child’s abuse through passive, frictionless consumption. Episode 6.34 – The Ethics of Reading: Frictional Thoughts Readings & Resources: Felski, Rita. The Limits of Critique, 2015. Keen, Suzanne. Empathy and the Novel, 2007. Nussbaum, Martha C. Love’s Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature, 1992. Rosenblatt, Louise M. The Reader, The Text, The Poem: The Transactional Theory of the Literary Work, 1978. Achebe, Chinua. Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays, 1989. Kutz, Eleanor, and Hephzibah Roskelly. An Unquiet Pedagogy: Transforming Practice in the English Classroom, 1991. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. Writers in Politics: Essays, 1981. Suvin, Darko. “Estrangement and Cognition.” Strange Horizons, 2014. https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/non-fiction/articles/estrangement-and-cognition/ Some Key Terms from this episode: Cognitive Estrangement: Intellectualizing emotional experience using new or unfamiliar concepts to force readers to critically examine and make connections to their lived reality.  Unquiet Pedagogy: An educational philosophy and practice that deliberately disrupts reader comfort by compelling learners to engage difference and to recognize the non-neutral nature of their learning. Transaction (Aesthetic Transaction): For Rosenblatt, the messy, active dialogue between the reader and the text where meaning is not passively received, but frictionally constructed by the reader. Frictional Reading: From Steve Chisnell, the act of slowing our reading to examine difference, to consider significance, and to carry that meaning-making to the larger world.  Listener’s Guide Reflection Questions The Nature of the Escape: When you reach for a book to “hide from the world,” what specific “outside” noise or responsibility are you most afraid will follow you into the garden? The Transaction of Tears: If you could no longer use a character’s suffering as a “pressure-release valve” for your own emotions, how would your choice of what to read change? The Cognitive Friction: Why does the prospect of “not thinking”—even for a moment during a leisure activity—feel like a luxury rather than a surrender of your humanity? The Path to Praxis: If the energy from your next “frictional” read had to be used to “Write Back” to the world, what is the first letter, essay, or conversation you would be compelled to start? Complete Resources: https://waywordsstudio.com/project/le-guin-omelas/ CHAPTERS 00:00    The Walled Garden of Consumption 08:28     Intro Theme 09:05     The Empathy Trap 19:14     Empathy Traps Undone 22:44     Social Action? 27:04     Educators and Narrative Complicity 32:18     Civic Acts 37:15     Closing Credits   === Transcript and Bibliography:  https://waywordsstudio.com/general/transcript/6-34-ethics-of-reading New to Literary Nomads? Check out my introductory episodes (0.1-0.3) to find out what’s going on here! I’ve got an episode for readers, for teachers, and for students: https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords-podcast/ Have a Question? Want to Comment? Literary Nomads Mailbag === Literary Nomads is the main program of Waywords Studio (https://waywordsstudio.com). The podcast posts new material each week, with thought-provoking examinations of literature around selected questions or themes and several smaller supplemental episodes in between the larger programs: history, writing, and contemporary applications of ideas. 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 Newsletter: https://waywordsstudio.kit.com/ Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Tumblr, LinkedIn, and BlueSky:  @WaywordsStudio === CREDITS: Original music by Randon Myles (https://randonmyles.com/) Chapter headings by Natalie Harrison and Sarah Skaleski 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. “6.34: The Ethics of Reading: Frictional Thoughts,” Literary Nomads. Waywords Studio, 8 May 2026, https://waywordsstudio.com/project/le-guin-omelas/.

  Can Stoicism answer our dilemma? Is the suffering child a product of a world that demands every second and every soul be “useful”  to the state? By comparing the “Roman Plow” of duty to the “Sovereign Tree” of uselessness, we ask if our participation in the “Achievement Society” is actually what pays for global injustice and inequity. Compare Seneca’s On the Shortness of Life with the Zhuangzi in this reflection on Stoicism vs. Daoism. Learn why “uselessness” is a survival strategy against the “Extraction Economy” and how Cincinnatus’s Roman Plow creates a utilitarian trap. Oh, and how The Expendables does, too. Episode 6.33 – Roman Plow, Sovereign Tree: Seneca and Zhuangzi Readings & Resources: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. “On the Shortness of Life.” Gareth Williams, trans., 2003. Zhuangzi. The Zhuangzi. Martin Palmer et. al., trans. 2020. Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De Officiis (On Duties). Walter Miller, trans., 1913.   Han, Byung-Chul. The Burnout Society. Stanford University Press, 2015. Levinas, Emmanuel. Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority. Translated by Alphonso Lingis, Duquesne University Press, 1969. Some Key Terms from this episode: Otium honestum:  “Honest Leisure.” Tactical rest that must still serve the state—for Cicero, a productive leisure Wuwei: (woo-way) – “Actionless action” that uses radical uselessness as a survival strategy against the empire. Budeyi: (boo-day-yee) – Acting only when compelled by necessity, without ego or the desire to “fix” the world. Listener’s Guide Reflection Questions The Price of Being Useful: If you were only valued for what you could do for your community, what parts of your “inner calm” would you have to sacrifice? The Survival of the Gnarled: Zhuangzi’s tree survives because it is too twisted to be turned into a boat or a coffin. What “useless” traits have protected you from being used by others? The Chisel of Kindness: The emperors killed Hundun by trying to give him a “normal” face. Where have we tried to “fix” someone else’s life using our own standards, only to realize we were ignoring who they actually were? The Stolen Leisure: Seneca says we don’t have a short life, we just waste a lot of it. In a world where even our relaxation is “bought and sold,” how do you find time that truly belongs to you?. The Fluid Response: If you stopped acting out of “duty” and started acting out of “fluid response,” would you still work to end injustice? How differently? Complete Resources: https://waywordsstudio.com/project/le-guin-omelas/ CHAPTERS 00:00     The Beach, The Ships, The Trap of Time 08:42     Intro Theme 09:18     Seneca: “On the Shortness of Life” 15:14     Negotium and Utilitarian Traps 23:30     The Garden Wrecker: Zhuangzi 31:44     The Emperor’s Chisel 37:47     I’ll Exploit Myself, Thank You 41:45     Closing Credits   === Transcript and Bibliography:  https://waywordsstudio.com/general/transcript/6-33-seneca-and-zhuangzi New to Literary Nomads? Check out my introductory episodes (0.1-0.3) to find out what’s going on here! I’ve got an episode for readers, for teachers, and for students: https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords-podcast/ Have a Question? Want to Comment? Literary Nomads Mailbag === Literary Nomads is the main program of Waywords Studio (https://waywordsstudio.com). The podcast posts new material each week, with thought-provoking examinations of literature around selected questions or themes and several smaller supplemental episodes in between the larger programs: history, writing, and contemporary applications of ideas. 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 Newsletter: https://waywordsstudio.kit.com/ Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Tumblr, LinkedIn, and BlueSky:  @WaywordsStudio === CREDITS: Original music by Randon Myles (https://randonmyles.com/) Chapter headings by Natalie Harrison and Sarah Skaleski 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. “6.33: Roman Plow, Sovereign Tree: Seneca and Zhuangzi,” Literary Nomads. Waywords Studio, 1 May 2026, https://waywordsstudio.com/project/le-guin-omelas/.

4 December 2021   Episode 4+ Bonus – Van Gogh – Immersive Exhibits   Does Immersive Van Gogh enlighten and educate through a new genre of art, or is it a dangerous profit-mongering exploitation which keeps us in ignorance? How should one understand or read a painting, anyway? Is this the path for the future and for education?   —   https://waywordsstudio.com   Complete Resources: https://waywordsstudio.com/project/van-gogh/    ===   CHAPTERS 00:00:00     Intro 00:01:04     Costs, Critics, and Questions 00:06:54     Intentional Objections and Art Displacement 00:12:17     Meaning in the Absence of Paint 00:14:11     *Art Under Capitalism 00:15:59     Immersion and Mental Illness 00:20:31     Ekphrasis: The Response to Art 00:26:52     Reading: Anne Sexton’s “The Starry Night” 00:28:56     Traditional Criticisms in Paint; Meaning in the Non-Verbal 00:38:23     The Olive Trees 00:49:13     The Nature of Ekphrastic Dialogue and Fear 00:54:36     *Van Gogh Transformations 00:57:07     New Genres and Installations 01:02:41     *Kurosawa, Chopin, and Emily 01:06:22     *Some ToK Considerations 01:07:46     Pedagogy and the Sesame Street Effect 01:11:52     *Reading: “Van Gogh in the Olive Garden” by Whiteman 01:14:51     Choosing Response 01:18:06     Outro *Chapters which are part of Bonus episode only. ===   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/) Chapter headings by Natalie Harrison and Sarah Skaleski   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. “Van Gogh: Immersive Exhibits.” Waywords Studio, 4 Dec. 2021, https://waywordsstudio.com/project/van-gogh/   

19 November 2021 Episode 3+ BONUS – Adichie’s “Tomorrow Is Too Far”   How does one read a story which creates its own rules? What else should we ever do? A sociological look at Adichie’s intersectionality, including a discussion of difference, second person narrative, linguistic compounding and kennings, feminism, and sociological theory for African writers and readers of African literature. Finally, we connect Adichie’s short story to works discussed earlier in the season. One passage considered: — At Nonso’s funeral in a cold cemetery in Virginia with tombstones jutting out obscenely, your mother was in faded black from head to toe, even a veil, and it made her cinnamon skin glow, like placing a very ripe corn against a blackboard. Your father stood away from the both of you, in his usual dashiki, milk-coloured cowries coiled round his neck. He looked as if he was not family, as if he was one of the guests who sniffled loudly and later asked your mother in hushed tones exactly how Nonso had died, exactly how he had fallen from one of the trees he had climbed since he was a toddler. —   https://waywordsstudio.com   Complete Resources: https://waywordsstudio.com/project/adichie-tomorrow-is-too-far/    ===   CHAPTERS 00:00:00     Intro 00:01:05     Adichie & Difference 00:05:26     No Clean Lines; Filling the Gaps 00:08:03     Snakes & Epistemic Shifts 00:12:33     **Linguistics: Compounding & Kennings 00:25:14     Deconstructing “You” 00:30:37     Bigger Than the Story 00:31:24     Feminism’s Epistemologies 00:44:57     Bakhtin: Intersections and Bad Binaries 00:47:36     A Closer Reading: Layers in the Details 00:51:51     Sociological Theory: Ill-Fitting Frames 01:04:35     Reflection: Juxtaposing Authors 01:07:28     Closing: One More Moment 01:09:13     Outro **Added segment for the 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/) Chapter headings by Natalie Harrison and Sarah Skaleski   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. “Adichie: ‘Tomorrow is Too Far.’” Waywords Studio, 19 Nov. 2021, https://waywordsstudio.com/project/adichie-tomorrow-is-too-far/.   

11 November 2021 Episode 2.1 A Memoir of Sorts   A reading of “L’Art” by Theophile Gautier; translation by George Santayana.   === https://waywordsstudio.com Show Home Page: https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/legacy-podcast/  Legacy is a production of Waywords Studio (https://waywordsstudio.com). The podcast publishes two micro-episodes per week until the season story completes. This same feed will also host the short audio fiction program “Scenes and Moments” in alternative seasons. Visit us for additional materials and clues for guests and the Waywords community, for other programs and writing, and for opportunities to support our goal to expand reading.  Website:  https://waywordsstudio.com  Twitter: @WaywordsStudio Instagram: @WaywordsStudio   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Waywords-Studio-107310977755912    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. “Legacy, A Reading of Theophile Gautier’s ‘Art’.” Waywords Studio, 11 Nov. 2021, https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/legacy-podcast/     

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, The fisses in the flod, And I mon waxe wod. Sulch sorw I walke with For beste of bon and blod.   https://waywordsstudio.com   Complete Resources: https://waywordsstudio.com/project/anonymous-fowls-in-the-frith/   ===   CHAPTERS   00:00:00 Ch1 – Intro 00:03:00 Ch2 – The Challenge of the Text 00:05:10 Ch3 – A Close Reading 00:10:19 Ch4 – Some Ways to Meaning 00:18:31 Ch5 – Essence of the Short Poem – Emily Dickinson 00:21:51 Ch6 – Medieval Songs and Philosophy 00:30:42 Ch7 – A History of Authorship 00:40:23 Ch8 – 99% Perspiration 00:43:09 **Ch9 – Related Works 00:44:55 **Ch10 – Who’s Your Daddy? 00:46:37 **Ch11 – Authorship and Ego 00:49:07 **Ch12 – Poetry Challenges the Sacred 00:52:57 Ch13 – Romantic Ego, Disintegration, and the Book 01:00:28 **Ch14 – Authors Absent and Present 01:02:31 Ch15 – BeFowling the Canon 01:06:25 Ch16 – Reason in the Frith 01:10:52 Ch 17 – Outro **Added segment for the 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/) Chapter headings by Natalie Harrison and Sarah Skaleski   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. “Anonymous: Fowles in the Frith.’” Waywords Studio, 5 Nov. 2021, https://waywordsstudio.com/project/anonymous-fowls-in-the-frith/.