Literary Nomads | Waywords Studio

Wanderings On Literature and Language

Literary Nomads | Waywords Studio is a education podcast hosted by Steve Chisnell, with 6 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Steve Chisnell hosts Literary Nomads | Waywords Studio, a education show with 6 episodes published.

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  Waypoint – “The Fortune Teller”

  Apr 10, 202626 minS0

  <p> </p> <p>10 April 2026</p> <h3>Waypoint - “The Fortune Teller” by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis</h3> <p>Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis is perhaps the greatest writer of Brazil. In “The Fortune-Teller,” a secret affair driven by anonymous threats pushes a committed skeptic toward a dingy attic and a deck of cards. It is a study in how easily we trade our reason for a comfortable prophecy, and a reminder that the future rarely negotiates with the stories we tell ourselves. As a setting for our discussion on the role of chance, fate, and destiny against moral accountability, we might...

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  Waypoint – “The Imp of Perversity”

  Oct 31, 202521 minS0

  <p> </p> <p>31 October 2025</p> <h3>Waypoint - “The Imp of Perversity” (1845) by Edgar Allan Poe</h3> <p>https://waywordsstudio.com</p> <p>Complete Resources: https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords-podcast/</p> <p>Another Halloween treat from Poe, a reading of this lesser-known tale which bears some comparison to “The Tell-Tale Heart.”</p> <p>American pioneer of many literary traditions including the Gothic tradition, detective fiction, and science fiction, Poe was also a literary critic who well understood the goals of his art, to articulate the truth of beauty, focused on a single particular notion or idea.</p> <p>Chapters</p> <p>00:00 ...

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  Waypoint – “The Tell-Tale Heart”

  Oct 28, 202519 minS0

  <p> </p> <p>28 October 2025</p> <h3>Waypoint - “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe</h3> <p>https://waywordsstudio.com</p> <p>Complete Resources: https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords-podcast/</p> <p>American pioneer of many literary traditions including the Gothic tradition, detective fiction, and science fiction, Poe was also a literary critic who well understood the goals of his art, to articulate the truth of beauty, focused on a single particular notion or idea. This story, a quintessential Poe classic, is perfect not only for its conception of the psychology of horror, but for our larger discussion in Le Guin’s Journ...

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  Not My Text! Irony and Ducking Accountability

  Jan 31, 202532 minS0

  <p> </p> <p>31 January 2025</p> <h3>5.01 Not My Text! Irony and Ducking Accountability</h3> <p>https://waywordsstudio.com</p> <p>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).</p> <p>Andrew Marvell’s poem “To His Coy Mistress”: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44688/to-his-coy-mistress </p> <p>Chapters</p> <p>00:00    Intro, Irony, and Assault Accountability<br /> 02:41    Literary Nomads Theme<br /> 03:14    A Little Oedipus...

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  An Introduction and Irony

  Jan 24, 202527 minS0

  <p> </p> <p>24 January 2025</p> <h3>An Introduction and Irony</h3> <p>https://waywordsstudio.com</p> <p>What is Literary Nomads, anyway? And what does that have to do with Radiohead, Godzilla, professorial assault, and irony?</p> <p>Here is the “reboot” of the main podcast from Waywords Studio. I talk about what it’s all about, but via Johannes Brahms, Godzilla, Clair de Lune, Steve Hackman, Matthew Arnold, irony, and a few other odds and ends. We’re setting up the first main reading for the podcast, Matthew Arnold’s “To His Coy Mistress.”  And a definition: Irony is a mode of percep...

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