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Back to SearchStephen King Meets Shel Silverstein: Formalism and Trope in Story
25 July 2025
Episode 6.06 - Stephen King Meets Shel Silverstein: Formalism and Trope in Story
What do a children’s story and horror film have in com…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Negotiating for Space: Compromise and Flag-Planting
18 July 2025
Episode 6.05 - Negotiating for Space: Compromise and Flag-Planting
This is getting challenging. What are we to do with the Suffering Ch…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Reading: “Rebellion” from Dostoevsky’s ‘The Brothers Karamazov’
11 July 2025
Episode 6.04 - Reading: “Rebellion” from Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov
Still another famous writer has posed the Le Guin question…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
Otium and The Moral Philosopher – William James
4 July 2025
Episode 6.03 - Otium and The Moral Philosopher - William James
Le Guin leans on an essay by William James, but what does that have to do…
9 months ago
Marvell’s Garden and Ours – Otium
27 June 2025
Episode 5.18 Marvell’s Garden and Ours: Otium
Speaking of links back to Andrew Marvell’s poetry–weren’t we?–we add a new concept into o…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Vaster Than Empires – Le Guin
20 June 2025
Episode 6.02 - “Vaster Than Empires” - Le Guin
What does it mean to embrace “Other”? And how might we understand carpe diem if we truly…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Signpost – Pretty Gardens in Paint
13 June 2025
Episode 6.01 - Signpost: Pretty Gardens in Paint
Where we’ve been and where we’re going, and we take a pause in a museum gallery, too!
…9 months, 4 weeks ago
Trailer: Journey 6
30 May 2025
Episode 6.00 - Trailer
Looking ahead at Season 6: Ursula K. Le Guin’s story, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” and all the wrestling…
10 months, 1 week ago
What I Get Wrong
23 May 2025
Episode 5.17 - What I Get Wrong
We close out the journey with a needed reflection, a look at what I’ve been doing, how it fits our colle…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Writing Back 2: Getting Over Our Essay Anxiety
16 May 2025
Episode 5.16 - Writing Back 2: Getting Over Our Essay Anxiety
It’s time for the end of our carpe diem journey, and we celebrate with a c…
10 months, 3 weeks ago