English @ SUNY Geneseo | Abigail Ritz | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/abigailritz/activity/ Activity feed for Abigail Ritz. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 7063f3eea6acc9ce958c2f0f1ffda1e3 Abigail Ritz wrote a new blog post Sameness and Difference in a Time of Coronavirus in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15200/ Sun, 10 May 2020 20:48:29 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 2b0e02fc39f583c19896e04476114276 Abigail Ritz wrote a new blog post Jazz and Purgatorio Collaboration (Inversion Vibes) in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15122/ Fri, 17 Apr 2020 18:54:21 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 075d4b531b8c947d027fc3aa9ed9a715 Abigail Ritz edited the blog post Our Journey Through Beloved in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15019/ Thu, 27 Feb 2020 20:38:00 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 f9e923320a1dee73286ae599d7e40a59 Abigail Ritz edited the blog post This is Paratext in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12882/ Thu, 16 May 2019 19:28:02 -0500 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, […]

]]> 0 f713968139a03b6c103b3b4701c6827f Abigail Ritz wrote a new blog post The Gaia Hypothesis in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12828/ Sun, 12 May 2019 01:42:46 -0500 “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 […]

]]> 0 0200c0e565b3d8c0ff6e34534298b7f4 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 https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12810/ Sun, 28 Apr 2019 15:42:24 -0500 “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 […]

]]> 0 badb9b64ea24736a529398964d8d208c Abigail Ritz edited the blog post Ceci n'est pas une artiste in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12776/ Sun, 28 Apr 2019 02:07:09 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 93fe5ee0f31d4d4e23c65a53a67ce91c 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 https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12797/ Sat, 27 Apr 2019 02:07:49 -0500 “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 […]

]]> 0 94e3a6a2bcd00970176443e6d689f9ee Abigail Ritz edited the blog post Q: What Could Be Better Than Studying in the Watercolor Studio? in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12707/ Fri, 26 Apr 2019 10:34:50 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 62fe6b61f4c0ce43ac92b7f30f1ea268 Abigail Ritz edited the blog post What Selena Gomez Got Right in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12664/ Thu, 25 Apr 2019 02:08:55 -0500 “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 […]

]]> 0 fc79cdc76dcdc07bc642ee96686469c8 Abigail Ritz edited the blog post Mince My Words in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12626/ Tue, 23 Apr 2019 00:18:40 -0500 “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 […]

]]> 0 a455a32b644c4493e5b1997073f3e6d2 Abigail Ritz edited the blog post Notice What You Don't Notice in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12223/ Sat, 09 Feb 2019 23:51:47 -0500 “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
In […]

]]> 0 26aa5c3872eaece81d520f08b31de47f Abigail Ritz commented on the post, If This Isn’t Niess, What Is?, on the site (Im)Possibilities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11590/ Wed, 12 Dec 2018 17:29:23 -0500 Gneiss title

]]> 0 ce5be468c1bd0550303c5e009aed671e Abigail Ritz edited the blog post Carving (Y)our (My) Stories in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11574/ Wed, 12 Dec 2018 16:39:29 -0500 ” 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 […]

]]> 0 c80a0a8fe558bc2e6b443dc82236a044 Abigail Ritz commented on the post, My Reaction to Molly Mattison’s Group Blog Post LIVE IN ART???, on the site (Im)Possibilities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11466/ Tue, 04 Dec 2018 18:31:17 -0500 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.

]]> 0 5badb0b771bd9f3e785b7af01114922e Abigail Ritz edited the blog post Ex-Machina or That Which Was Formerly Machine in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11419/ Sun, 02 Dec 2018 04:56:44 -0500 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, […]

]]> 0 ca5380eb20f6c1d0fa2ffb8d07049ffa Abigail Ritz wrote a new blog post On Beauty and Being Stone in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11394/ Sun, 02 Dec 2018 03:17:16 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 3bc5f05217b5902f39e9288231344835 Abigail Ritz wrote a new blog post Utopetroleum (and Cow Farts™) in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11382/ Sat, 01 Dec 2018 22:41:59 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 508ae9fde434c5669a17df9076bb6a6a Abigail Ritz edited the blog post WHAT'S THAT ROCK? in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11362/ Sat, 01 Dec 2018 01:13:11 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 2361885ac011b794b88e7313d8356821 Abigail Ritz wrote a new blog post What's in a Home? in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11327/ Thu, 29 Nov 2018 22:56:03 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 8ea30b66b4f88009007f15305f4b9349 Abigail Ritz edited the blog post Palimpsest: CLICK HERE to learn more about this weird disease (just kidding, it's just a word I didn't know but, hey, since you're here, read this post) in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11261/ Wed, 28 Nov 2018 01:49:22 -0500 I often say that my main activity as an English major is looking up the meaning of words that I don’t know the meaning of — the other day, in doing writing for another class, I came across such a wor […]

]]> 0 7aadaff0222a0f4486261e56f4d386f1 Abigail Ritz wrote a new blog post Split Self: Essun's Identities (And My Own Procrastination) in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11163/ Fri, 16 Nov 2018 08:01:37 -0500 Brain freeze.  That’s possibly the best way to describe my stress response.  Metaphorically, my brain stumbles, frizzy-haired and wild-eyed, into a classroom, late to a midterm she didn’t realize was happening, a […]

]]> 0 5fd12c492fc0ed1d67a324ff4952fb24 Abigail Ritz edited the blog post Slavery Broke the World in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10995/ Sun, 04 Nov 2018 19:53:15 -0500 In N.K. Jemisin’s work we see an earth twice (if not more times — remember, much of history is unwritten) shattered; once torn apart by the mysterious loss of the moon, once fragmented by Alabaster’s exp […]

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