Listen "Folklore, Fantasy, and the Power of Language: Kenzie Grubitz Simpson"
Episode Synopsis
We're talking today to linguist and grant writer Kenzie Grubitz Simpson about folklore, the power of embodiment and language—and even the weather! Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Virginia Frances Sterret (cropped). Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Want to learn more about the books—and shows!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on LibraryThing, Goodreads, and Mastodon—and show your support at Liberapay! David Abram The Spell of the Sensuous Theodor Adorno Daniel Allison House of Legends podcast Daniel Allison Scottish Myths & Legends J. L. Austin How to Do Things with Words Beowulf Svetlana Boym Paul Celan Raymond Chandler Red Wind Susanna Clarke Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell Aleister Crowley John Crowley The Aegypt Cyle John Crowley Ka John Crowley Little, Big Terrence Deacon Jacques Derrida Joan Didion "The Santa Anas" Merlin Donald A Mind So Rare: The Evolution of Human Consciousness Moshe Feldenkrais Aris Fioretos, ed. Word Traces: Readings of Paul Celan Allen Grossman True-Love: Essays on Poetry and Valuing Che Guevara Werner Herzog Grizzly Man Hildegarde of Bingen Samuel Johnson/ James Boswell A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland / The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides Alfred Kroeber George Lakoff / Mark Johnson Metaphors We Live By Urusla K. Le Guin "The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction" Urusla K. Le Guin A Wizard of Earthsea Urusla K. Le Guin Buffalo Gals Urusla K. Le Guin Tales from Earthsea Urusla K. Le Guin The Left Hand of Darkness Urusla K. Le Guin The Other Wind Urusla K. Le Guin The Telling Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook John Sayles The Secret of Roan Inish Viktor ShklovskyKnight's Move Denis Villeneuve Arrival Ludwig Wittgenstein Frances A. Yates The Art of Memory William Tell
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