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31 January 2025
5.01 Not My Text! Irony and Ducking Accountability
An application or two of that dramatic ironyA "deflection of expectation," where words, situation, or pe... More we talked about. Along the way, we consider who is accountable for the text: author, character, or reader, and how writers build a narrative distanceWhere the author distances herself from the speaker or narra... More in texts to allow ironyA "deflection of expectation," where words, situation, or pe... More and meaning to operate (and shirking a bit of accountabilityAccountability is a claim on our actions, but it is external... More).
Andrew Marvell’s poem “To His Coy Mistress”: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44688/to-his-coy-mistress
Chapters
00:00 Intro, IronyA "deflection of expectation," where words, situation, or pe... More, and Assault AccountabilityAccountability is a claim on our actions, but it is external... More
02:41 Literary Nomads Theme
03:14 A Little Oedipus: Responsible or Accountable?
09:38 Barbeques and Reader AccountabilityAccountability is a claim on our actions, but it is external... More
18:00 Ducking responsibility
23:10 IronyA "deflection of expectation," where words, situation, or pe... More in Narrative DistanceWhere the author distances herself from the speaker or narra... More
30:45 Closing
Transcript: https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/transcript-5-01-irony-and-ducking-accountability/
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Original music by Randon Myles (https://randonmyles.com/)
Transitions by Natalie Harrison and Sarah Skaleski
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Chisnell, Steve. “Not My Text! IronyA "deflection of expectation," where words, situation, or pe... More and Ducking AccountabilityAccountability is a claim on our actions, but it is external... More.” Literary Nomads, Waywords Studio, 24 Jan. 2025, https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/not-my-text-irony-and-ducking-accountability.