Thank you to everyone who has commented or emailed me in the um, almost year that it's been since my last podcast. I'm really sorry I've been away from the project for so long. I'm amazed that there's still an audience for my meager, sporadically-updated content - thank you!
Unfortunately, I don't have a new podcast to post today, but I did want to let everyone know that I haven't fallen off a cliff or been the victim of a giant earthquake or anything else of the sort.
I don't know when the next episode of litGEEK will be up. Episodes six through nine are outlined, but not completed. I can promise that I will return to this project, but I can't promise when. I'm in the final stretch of my undergrad and it's a mad scramble to finish 17 credits worth of school stuff while starting a new job in a new industry. (I get to learn new terms and be geeky about non-lit things. Sweet.) I'm still trying to figure out where the sweet-spot is in terms of work-school-life balance because I will likely be enrolled in some form of formalized education for the rest of my life.
I'm not whining, or trying not to - I am very, very lucky to have the support necessary to finish an undergraduate degree as an adult. But the choices I made in 2007 ultimately resulted in a lot less free time for fun projects.
Please, keep emailing and commenting. And I'll try to do a little better about keeping up my end of the bargain once I can get things rolling, again. (And, if I actually get into an MAT program, I'll try not to pull another disappearing act.)
Fair enough?
Feedback? Comment here or email me at litcast@gmail.com.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Sunday, January 7, 2007
Episode 5 - Lit Theory: Post-structuralism, Deconstruction, & Postmodernism
litGEEK is back after an unplanned hiatus! Happy New Year!
Feedback? Comment here or email me at litcast@gmail.com.
Today's episode features Post-structuralism, Deconstruction, and Postmodernism, Dr. Dino Felluga's Introductory Guide to Literary Theory and music from Martin Ekman and Matt Pond PA.
While these podcasts are not comprehensive, I do go over a lot of names and terms in a pretty short period of time. Here are the names and terms included in today’s episode:
Important Critics:
Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Julia Kristeva.
Important Terms
aporia, difference, trace, ecriture, hymen and phallocentrism, and pharmakon
Featured site: Dr. Dino Felluga's Introductory Guide to Literary Theory.
Today’s featured artist, Matt Pond PA, appears courtesy of both the band and their label, Altitude Records. The featured track is Matt Pond PA's Halloween, from "Several Arrows Later." Bumper music is from Martin Ekman's Hanging On. The LitGeek theme music is Saffron Steps by Cagey House, courtesy of podsafeaudio.com. Podcast inspired by Vade Mecum.
Want to know more about Post-structuralism, Deconstruction, and Postmodernism?
Siegel, Kristi. Intro to Literary Theory.
Wikipedia. "Post-structuralism"
Wikipedia. "Deconstruction"
Wikipedia. "Postmodernism"
Feedback? Comment here or email me at litcast@gmail.com.
Monday, December 25, 2006
Episode 4 - Lit Theory: Structuralism & Semiotics
Today's episode features Structuralism and Semiotics, SWIRL, and music from Cagey House.
While these podcasts are not comprehensive, I do go over a lot of names and terms in a pretty short period of time. Here are the names and terms included in today’s episode:
Important Structuralists
Claude Lévi-Strauss, A. J. Greimas, Jonathan Culler, Roland Barthes, Ferdinand de Saussure, Roman Jakobson, Vladimir Propp, and Terence Hawkes
Important Semiologists
Charles Peirce, Ferdinand de Saussure, Michel Foucault, Umberto Eco, Gérard Genette, and Roland Barthes
Important Terms (both schools)
binary opposition, mythemes, sign versus symbol (sign and signified), and structuralist narratology
Featured site: SWIRL: Your Guide to Post-Millennial Paradigms.
Today’s featured artist, Cagey House, appears courtesy of podsafeaudio.com. Three Cagey House songs were featured: Saffron Steps, which I use as my theme music, The Ming Thing, as bumper music, and That Hypothesis, in its entirety. Podcast inspired by Vade Mecum.
Want to know more about Structuralism and Semiotics?
Chandler, David. Semiotics for Beginners.
Feedback? Comment here or email me at litcast@gmail.com.
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