5 November 2021

Episode 2 - Fowles in the Frith 

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 the different ideas of medieval authorship, and find we may have not have wandered yet that far, at all.

 

Foweles in the frith,

The fisses in the flod,

And I mon waxe wod.

Sulch sorw I walke with

For beste of bon and blod.

 

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CHAPTERS

 

00:00 Ch1 - Intro

03:00 Ch2 - The Challenge of the Text

05:10 Ch3 - A Close Reading

10:19 Ch4 - Some Ways to Meaning

18:31 Ch5 - Essence of the Short Poem - Emily Dickinson

21:51 Ch6 - Medieval Songs and Philosophy

30:42 Ch7 - A History of Authorship

40:23 Ch8 - 99% Perspiration

43:09 Ch13 - Romantic Ego, Disintegration, and the Book

50:39 Ch 15 - BeFowling the Canon

54:33 Ch16 - Reason in the Frith

59:01 Ch17 - Outro

 

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**Ch9 - Related Works

**Ch10 - Who's Your Daddy?

**Ch11 - Authorship and Ego

**Ch12 - Poetry Challenges the Sacred

**Ch14 - Authors Absent and Present

 

**Available to our members on Episode 2+ (the full bonus episode)

  

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CREDITS:

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

Chapter headings by Natalie Harrison and Sarah Skaleski

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MLA CITATION:

Chisnell, Steve. “Anonymous: Fowles in the Frith.’” Waywords Studio, 5 Nov. 2021, https...