English @ SUNY Geneseo | Amanda D'Angio | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/amdangio04/activity/ Activity feed for Amanda D'Angio. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 15f3ed24ff227ca82330ba259bcca40f Amanda D'Angio wrote a new post on the site Reader and Text http://readerandtext.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=678 Wed, 03 Dec 2014 04:26:25 -0500 In my play analysis class, we read Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer Prize winning play W;t. I was fortunate enough to have previously read this play in my AP Literature class senior year as well. I hold this play near […]

]]> f02cafc146c7e32b9fe811ec0a3c96de Amanda D'Angio wrote a new post on the site Reader and Text http://readerandtext.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=619 Fri, 14 Nov 2014 04:00:59 -0500 My last post discussed the concepts of dimensions. This article suggests that the English major offers another dimension of knowledge.

http://chronicle.com/article/The-Ideal-English-Major/140553/

 

 

]]> f9eb950f1815cacc3c3a9fe071da7457 Amanda D'Angio wrote a new post on the site Reader and Text http://readerandtext.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=608 Thu, 13 Nov 2014 01:44:55 -0500 This week I saw Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, and walking out of the theater I couldn’t help but draw parallels between that and Zulus. Like Zulus, Interstellar takes place in a future dystopian Earth […]

]]> 9499d6d83c241936277a227ad8936eb3 Amanda D'Angio wrote a new post on the site Reader and Text http://readerandtext.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=418 Sun, 05 Oct 2014 21:14:54 -0500 Earlier this week, I had a professor guest lecture in my play analysis class about theater design. While I should have been paying attention to what he was saying about design concepts, I feverishly scribbled […]

]]> c509c91d107cde533652f2fb7d88a0af Amanda D'Angio wrote a new post on the site Reader and Text http://readerandtext.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=272 Sat, 06 Sep 2014 16:00:05 -0500 When I first read Martinez Alfaro’s “Intertextuality,” the concept of all texts arising from previous texts immediately reminded me of the cell theory; all cells arise from preexisting cells. Then, discovering the title of this week’s chapter of Interdisciplinarity, “Science, Space and Nature,” I was intrigued by what Moran could possibly say regarding this topic. Moran extensively discusses the concept of empiricism: the theory that all knowledge is  derived from the sense experience. He opens his discussion by explaining that “Science’s self confidence has traditionally stemmed from its self-limitations…” (pg 137) From what I understand, scientific concepts are only as valid as the evidence that supports it. Science is taught as a “universal truth” according to Paul Feyerabend and he argues that there is no freedom to dissent from scientific knowledge. (pg 140) Although Moran depicts the separation between the sciences and literature, I believe they are inherently the same.

Science in its rawest form is “framed, discussed, and solved” (pg 141) Is literature not framed, discussed and solved as well? In science there is an existing problem or question, and as the scientist you formulate a hypothesis one may either challenge or agree with. Literature is the same. During the age of Enlightenment, Martin Luther challenged the Catholic Church with his experimental The Ninety-Five Thesis. Harriet Beecher Stowe challenged the concept of slavery with her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Each work of literature at the time seemed blasphemous, and yet didn’t each new scientific concept introduced to society seem just as ludicrous also? By reading this chapter, I have a fuller understanding of how the disciplines actually intertwine.

 

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