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

 A discussion of the Intentional Fallacy in determining meaning. Are the early theorists right that all of the meaning is in the text alone? Is the author irrelevant? What does that mean for me as a r

WayPoint: A reading of Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market." wondering how her work might respond to Chopin, how she anticipates the role of author and reader.

Where do we place the tragedy in Kate Chopin's short story? Is it in the protagonist's failure to escape or her failure to believe she can?

Full Members Bonus Episode: Digging further into post-structural questions offered by the story.

An introduction or review to the concept of irony in literature, helpful to those who want to better understand the "twist" ending to the story.

A supplemental episode, a reading of Chopin's short story. "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully."

Le buste / Survit à la cité.

Join me, Steve Chisnell, as we find and lose meaning across modern and classic tales, through ancient and distant verse, atop everything in our many cultures which might be read.

Today in the studio we had a special episode with a player on the tennis team to get an inside experience on what the season was like. This player was Jack Merten and we got to here a lot about his season and the team as a whole.