English 1102 Podcasts Episode: 13 – Themes in Kavalier and Clay This episode applies to Week 8 and discusses: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Themes in the novel, such as escapism, identity, friendship. Dichotomies in the novel such as real and fake, descriptive and surface, public and private How the novel continues the … Continue reading "Episode 13 – Themes in Kavalier and Clay"

English 1102 Podcasts Episode: 12 – Introduction to Kavalier and Clay This episode applies to Week 7 and discusses: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay What to look for, and themes Real and imaginary histories, circumstances, realities Looking at the novel as a series of segments, each with different representation or “lens” on a … Continue reading "Episode 12 – Kavalier and Clay (Intro)"

English 1102 Podcasts Episode: 11 – Myth of Superman This episode applies to Week 6 and discusses: Umberto Eco: “Myth of Superman” (Appendix Coursepack) Eco’s article / essay as an archetype for close reading How to deploy close reading to think about representation Why we need to think about narrative, character, and language through specifics … Continue reading "Episode 11 – Myth of Superman"

English 1102 Podcasts Episode: 11 – Introducing Theme: Reading by Laura Agnes Millar This episode applies to Week 5 and discusses: Laura Agnes Millar: “What are Archives?” (Appendix Coursepack) How the text acts as a kind of archive Thinking about how we (and texts) contextualize, organize, and label Themes provide context for understanding records (or … Continue reading "Episode 10 – Laura Millar – Archives"

English 1102 Podcasts Episode: 09 – Analysis & Synthesis / Shitty First Drafts This episode applies to Week 4 and discusses: Empoword Chapter 6: Analysis and Synthesis (42 – 53) Essay #1 as an exercise in synthesizing and applying knowledge How to deal with thesis sentences and essay structures Attend to the evidence in the … Continue reading "Episode 09 – Analysis & Synthesis / First Drafts"

English 1102 Podcasts Episode: 08 – Summary & Response / Keeper of the Secrets This episode applies to Week 3 and discusses: Empoword Chapter 5: Summary and Response (127 – 33) Activity Prompt as Summary and Response exercise Summarize only what you will respond to Somers, James: “Keeper of the Secrets.” Speaks to common themes … Continue reading "Episode 08 – Summary & Response / Keeper of the Secrets"

English 1102 Podcasts Episode: 07 – Unpacking My Library This episode applies to Week 2 and discusses: “Unpacking My Library: A Talk About Book Collecting” Look to the examples in Online Lecture about “marking up” a text as a companion to this audio Episode talks about 1) Speaker of the text: What assumptions is the … Continue reading "Episode 07 – Unpacking My Library"

English 1102 Podcasts Episode: 06 – Context, Interpretation, and Directed Reading This episode applies to Week 2 and discusses: Empoword – Chapter 4: Text Wrestling and Interpretation, Analysis, and Close Reading (106–120) (Appendix Coursepack) How does this reading help us understand how to use literary terms? Context / Comprehension / Analysis Work from the text … Continue reading "Episode 06 – Context, Interpretation, and Directed Reading"

English 1102 Podcasts Episode: 05 – Literary Terms (Part I) This episode applies to Week 2 and discusses: Literary Terms I walkthrough a few of these emphasizing what’s important about each, touching upon: Character Figurative Language First-Person Narrative Genre Image Setting Signal Symbol Text

English 1102 Podcasts Episode: 04 – “Casey at the Bat” and Literary Terms This episode applies to Week 1 and discusses: Literary Terms “Casey at the Bat” imagery (introducing figurative language) poetic devices plot (narrative – rising action) speaker (narrator) character (Casey and all the other baseball players) descriptive language (used to apply the players) … Continue reading "Episode 04 – Casey at the Bat"