Words to Live With
12/21/20 • 83 min
Marilyn McEntyre is a steward of words. She has taught courses on English and medical humanities, and she has written or edited over twenty books, including Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies. Marilyn joins Elise to discuss the meaning of four words: dwelling, compassion, truth, and awe. Marilyn discusses why she loves participles and how “Christianese” can constrict the meaning of a word. She also reads three of her own poems and explains the background and inspiration of each.
Words as building materials
How space shapes us
Particularity and universality
A productive relationship between loneliness and dwelling
Touch deprivation
The strength and resilience of compassion
Christianese
Our relationship to Industrial food system
A broader examination of conscience
Truth as embodied and relational
The act of translation
Convicted civility
Why do we lie?
Relationship between death and awe
Accompanying the dying
Links:
Dwelling in the Text by Marilyn McEntyre
Word Tastings: An Essay Anthology by Marilyn McEntyre
Teaching Literature and Medicine by Marilyn McEntyre
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies by Marilyn McEntyre
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Should Trees Have Standing?: Law, Morality, and the Environment by Christopher D. Stone
I MARRY YOU: A Sheaf of Love Poems by John Ciardi
Marilyn McEntyre is a steward of words. She has taught courses on English and medical humanities, and she has written or edited over twenty books, including Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies. Marilyn joins Elise to discuss the meaning of four words: dwelling, compassion, truth, and awe. Marilyn discusses why she loves participles and how “Christianese” can constrict the meaning of a word. She also reads three of her own poems and explains the background and inspiration of each.
Words as building materials
How space shapes us
Particularity and universality
A productive relationship between loneliness and dwelling
Touch deprivation
The strength and resilience of compassion
Christianese
Our relationship to Industrial food system
A broader examination of conscience
Truth as embodied and relational
The act of translation
Convicted civility
Why do we lie?
Relationship between death and awe
Accompanying the dying
Links:
Dwelling in the Text by Marilyn McEntyre
Word Tastings: An Essay Anthology by Marilyn McEntyre
Teaching Literature and Medicine by Marilyn McEntyre
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies by Marilyn McEntyre
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Should Trees Have Standing?: Law, Morality, and the Environment by Christopher D. Stone
I MARRY YOU: A Sheaf of Love Poems by John Ciardi
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Heroes of the Fourth Turning and Other Happenings with Ryan McDermott and Elise Lonich Ryan
Cohosts Ryan McDermott and Elise Lonich Ryan have a conversation about the art that has accompanied them through 2020. They discuss the mysterious ending of Pulitzer-nominated Heroes of the Fourth Turning, a play that explores the political beliefs of four conservative Catholics and has had multiple runs on Zoom. Ryan and Elise share a love of Marilynne Robinson and critiques of Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life. Ryan explains how the Norwegian show Beforeigners ties into his project Genealogies of Modernity, and Elise recommends the best nature writing.
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Affective responses and structures of feeling
Franz Jäggerstätter and the intellectual life
American transcendentalism and sentimentalism
Wilma Theater production of Heroes of the Fourth Turning
“Unpacking My Library” by Walter Benjamin
Flourishing in the Wake of COVID-19
Marilynne Robinson on The Ezra Klein Show
“A beginners guide to The Ezra Klein Show”
Heroes of the Fourth Turning by Will Arbery
Next Episode
Exploring the Divine Comedy with Jason Baxter
Jason Baxter is an associate professor of fine arts and humanities at Wyoming Catholic College and a prolific writer. He has published or completed five books since 2018, including A Beginner’s Guide to Dante’s Divine Comedy and The Infinite Beauty of the World: Dante’s Encyclopedia and the Names of God. Jason joins Ryan to discuss all things Divine Comedy. Jason talks about the best way to read Dante and explains why some people struggle through the Paradiso. He and Ryan also play a game of “Would You Rather” where Jason tells us about his love of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky.
Modernity and Medievalism
Microcosm and macrocosm
Why the Inferno is so popular
Vision in Dante
Is there a narrative in the Divine Comedy?
Dante and the invention of purgatory
What will heaven actually be like?
Beatitude in community
Cowboy Platonist
Links:
A Beginner’s Guide to Dante’s Divine Comedy by Jason Baxter
Falling Inward: Humanities in the Age of Technology by Jason Baxter
The Infinite Beauty of the World: Dante’s Encyclopedia and the Names of God by Jason Baxter
An Introduction to Christian Mysticism: Recovering the Wildness of Spiritual Life by Jason Baxter
The Birth of Purgatory by Jacques Le Goff
“Death, Be Not Proud” by John Donne
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