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Elizabeth Roos edited the blog post Humorous and Dramatic Irony in the group
Reader and Text: 5 hours, 4 minutes agoThe interesting thing about irony for me is that real irony is far more sincere than earnestness. To accept the absurdity of a situation is to accept the humanness of it. Utter sincerity sugg […]
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Shelagh Neeley edited the blog post The One That Got Away in the group
Reader and Text: 7 hours, 2 minutes agoTo some, the one that got away can be referenced to relationships,
and the person that someone broke up with, or a relationship that they didn’t notice
was going downhill. Or that statement
could be talking ab […]
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Mia Sidoti wrote a new blog post Pentheus’s moment in the sun. in the group
Reader and Text: 9 hours, 34 minutes ago“Thank you,” I said. “I came back to this place to find something, to connect with something lost, to reunite if not with my whole self, then with a piece of it. What I’ve discovered is that this thing is not her […]
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Cameron Luquer wrote a new blog post Is Catherine the Ideal Victorian Woman? in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 10 hours, 59 minutes agoThe idea of the place of women in society that has come up in readings by George Eliot, Martineau, Ada Lovelace, Margaret Fuller, etc. Through these readings we see the societal expectations of women during the […]
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Hayley Jones wrote a new blog post Heathcliff and “The Cry of the Children” in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 13 hours, 30 minutes agoPoor Heathcliff. I’ve read Wuthering Heights once before and have always felt the most sympathy for his character, though it’s hard to root for any of the characters in Bronte’s novel wholeheartedly. As Nelly’s […]
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Ariana Vidal wrote a new blog post Be Informed in the group
American Studies: 15 hours, 2 minutes agoOur course epigraph ““My job is to notice…and to notice that you can notice.”–Dionne Brand, from notes that Beth during the question-and-answer session following Brand’s March 2, 2013 reading at the North […]
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Amanda Neri wrote a new blog post Interpretation in the group
Reader and Text: 15 hours, 38 minutes agoAfter looking back at the course epigraphs, we looked at in class on the first day, I found myself keep going back to the suspicious pants. The pants just caught my attention, I was kind of confused on why we […]
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Rachel Cohen edited the blog post Noticing in the group
American Studies: 17 hours, 24 minutes agoUpon reading the course epigraph, I begin to think about in class, noticing each other talking. In every class period, there is tons of conversation about the reading we completed for class. But these […]
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Susanna Dolan edited the blog post The problem with knowing everything. in the group
Reader and Text: 19 hours, 59 minutes ago“The
interesting thing about irony for me is that real irony is far more sincere
than earnestness. To accept the absurdity of a situation is to accept the
humanness of it. Utter sincerity suggests a kind of be […] -
Hannah Bentivegna edited the blog post Social Status and Poverty in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 1 day, 3 hours agoAfter reading the first chapters of “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Bronte, I couldn’t help but notice the obvious underlying racial tension that arise due to social status. It’s obvious that Lockwood feels superio […]
