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Abigail Ritz wrote a new blog post Sameness and Difference in a Time of Coronavirus in the group American Studies: 3 years, 11 months ago
The eagle of Divine Justice, while most pertinent in the Heaven of Jupiter in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth cantos of Paradise, has its precursors earlier in Paradiso, primarily in Canto VI. The […]
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Abigail Ritz wrote a new blog post Jazz and Purgatorio Collaboration (Inversion Vibes) in the group American Studies: 4 years ago
Sydney Cannioto, Tommy Castronova, Thomas Gillingham, Katie Haefele, Dong Won Oh, Abigail Ritz, and Emily Zandy
At its narrative and literal levels, Toni Morrison’s Jazz reflects Dante’s Purgatorio through her […]
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Abigail Ritz edited the blog post Our Journey Through Beloved in the group American Studies: 4 years, 1 month ago
James Bonn, Yadelin Fernandez, Randall Lombardi, Margaret Pigliacelli, Abigail Ritz, Rickie Strong, and Eleanor Walker
Written in the fourteenth century, Dante’s Inferno has become a famous cosmological d […]
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Abigail Ritz edited the blog post This is Paratext in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: This
Chapter 2: Is
Chapter 3: Paratext
Afterword
To plunge into the paratextual chain of citations is to risk discovering that the subject matter is complex, […] -
Abigail Ritz wrote a new blog post The Gaia Hypothesis in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
“The end of the world has already occurred. We can be uncannily precise about the date on which the world ended. Convenience is not readily associated with historiography, nor indeed with geological time. But in t […]
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Abigail Ritz wrote a new blog post Lost in Space, Episode 2: The One About Progress or What’s in a Line (On a Line? Is It Even a Line?)? in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
“How shall man measure Progress where the dark-faced Josie lies? How many heartfuls of sorrow shall balance a bushel of wheat? How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real! And all this life a […]
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Abigail Ritz edited the blog post Ceci n’est pas une artiste in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
By Lindsey “Yee” Kriaris and Abby “Haw” Ritz
Last semester, we participated in an independent art exhibit with some of our mutual friends (Marty Benzinger, Clio Lieberman, Sabrina Saleta, Maddie Walker, a […]
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Abigail Ritz edited the blog post Lost in Space, Episode 1: The One Where I Need to Tell Everyone I Studied Abroad in the group American Studies: 4 years, 12 months ago
“I just wanted to make sure our people hadn’t floated away… but I took a walk around and it looked like everyone was tucked in tight.” ~Wendy S. Walters, “Lonely in America”
When I was abroad, my best frien […] -
Abigail Ritz edited the blog post Q: What Could Be Better Than Studying in the Watercolor Studio? in the group American Studies: 4 years, 12 months ago
A: An Art department!
“Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched… this is the soul of democracy and the safeguard of modern society” ~ W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black […] -
Abigail Ritz edited the blog post What Selena Gomez Got Right in the group American Studies: 4 years, 12 months ago
“Modern poetry aims at creating a semantics that is seemingly without syntax, which is to say a semantics in which the opposition between word and thing — between the two articulations of language or between the […]
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Abigail Ritz edited the blog post Mince My Words in the group American Studies: 4 years, 12 months ago
“The accuracy of accurate letters is an accuracy with respect to the structure of reality.” ~ Wallace Stevens
I mince my words, chopping them up until they are fine and small, until they are digestible, able to […] -
Abigail Ritz edited the blog post Notice What You Don’t Notice in the group American Studies: 5 years, 2 months ago
“Not knowing the scope of your own ignorance is part of the human condition.” – David Dunning
“I wanted to learn, but I needed help… we can’t learn anything without one another’s help.” – Mary Rutigliano
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Abigail Ritz commented on the post, If This Isn’t Niess, What Is?, on the groupblog (Im)Possibilities 5 years, 4 months ago
Gneiss title
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Abigail Ritz edited the blog post Carving (Y)our (My) Stories in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago
” In love, then, we shall seek understanding.”
– N.K. Jemisin, The Obelisk Gate
Oftentimes, when I’m writing, I feel as though I’m carving something out of stone — I’m writing and writing and writing and […]
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Abigail Ritz commented on the post, My Reaction to Molly Mattison’s Group Blog Post LIVE IN ART???, on the groupblog (Im)Possibilities 5 years, 4 months ago
Cindy, your pieces are absolutely amazing! I also really love the point about art serving a purpose in relation to causes of social justice. And, truly, honestly, your work is beautiful.
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Abigail Ritz edited the blog post Ex-Machina or That Which Was Formerly Machine in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago
We were constructed as intentionally and artificially as the fragments you call obelisks. We are fragments of the great machine too . . . By our existence, we glorify the world that made us, like any statue, […]
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Abigail Ritz wrote a new blog post On Beauty and Being Stone in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago
In another course myself and Sabrina Bramwell are taking this semester, we are reading Zadie Smith’s On Beauty, a novel based in exploring contemporary ideals of beauty, academia and self. It is, in fact, a n […]
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Abigail Ritz wrote a new blog post Utopetroleum (and Cow Farts™) in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago
Life is sacred in Syl Anagist — as it should be, for the city burns life as the fuel for its glory.
Syl Anagist at first seems a utopia, projecting image of surface-level perfection: a society built around […]
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Abigail Ritz edited the blog post WHAT’S THAT ROCK? in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago
By Abby “Opal” Ritz and Helen “Azurite” Warfle
On the first day of class, Professor McCoy asked us what our favorite rock was. Now that the semester is almost over and we have a more advanced knowledge of geol […]
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Abigail Ritz wrote a new blog post What’s in a Home? in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago
Home. For me, it lies in a yellow house tucked against the woods, smoke curling out of a chimney and yellow lab lolling lazily (she’s a little chunky) in the front yard. I can draw up the image in a moment, t […]
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