Not My Text! Irony and Ducking Accountability

  31 January 2025 5.01 Not My Text! Irony and Ducking Accountability https://waywordsstudio.com An application or two of that dramatic irony we talked about. Along the way, we consider who is accountable for the text: author, character, or reader, and how writers build a narrative distance in texts to allow irony and meaning to operate (and shirking a bit of accountability). Andrew Marvell’s poem “To His Coy Mistress”: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44688/to-his-coy-mistress  Chapters 00:00    Intro, Irony, and Assault Accountability 02:41    Literary Nomads Theme 03:14    A Little Oedipus: Responsible or Accountable? 09:38    Barbeques and Reader Accountability 18:00    Ducking responsibility 23:10    Irony in Narrative Distance 30:45    Closing Transcript:  https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/transcript-5-01-irony-and-ducking-accountability/ Literary Nomads is the primary 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: @WaywordsStudio Facebook: Waywords.Studio YouTube: Waywords Studio LinkedIn: Waywords-Studio CREDITS: Original music by Randon Myles (https://randonmyles.com/) Transitions 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. “Not My Text! Irony and Ducking Accountability.” Literary Nomads, Waywords Studio, 24 Jan. 2025, https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/not-my-text-irony-and-ducking-accountability.