Not My Text! Irony and Ducking Accountability

 

31 January 2025

5.01 Not My Text! Irony and Ducking Accountability

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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/

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CREDITS:

Original music by Randon Myles (https://randonmyles.com/)

Transitions by Natalie Harrison and Sarah Skaleski

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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.