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 speaker making?
      
      
      • What does the speaker assume about the audience? What does s/he think of us?
      
      
      • How does s/he make suggestions about what makes a “true collector”?
      
      
      
      
    
    
    • 2) Dichotomies or oppositions:
      
      
      
      • Order vs. Disorder
      
      
      • Freedom vs. Confinement
      
      
      • Public vs. Private
      
      
      • Read vs Not Read
      
      
      • Public meaning vs. Personal meaning
      
      
      
      
    
    
    • 3) Patterns of meaning:
      
      
      
      • Where does the speaker make suggestions about what makes a “true collector”?
      
      
      • Where is there evidence that the speaker values collecting over actually reading?
      
      
      • Why does the speaker give this talk? What is the purpose? What does the speaker want us to walk away from the talk thinking about?