English @ SUNY Geneseo | Claire Corbeaux | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/ccorbeaux8/activity/ Activity feed for Claire Corbeaux. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 87ec1298284e475a4f127459a9769ead Claire Corbeaux edited the blog post Crafting a Paradise on (Im)Possibilities through Collaboration in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15201/ Sun, 10 May 2020 20:59:03 -0500 When Dante enters the Heaven of Jupiter, he encounters the eagle of divine justice and the five souls which form the constellation of the eagle’s brow. These souls are arranged in this particular constellation b […]

]]> 0 d4a79e062fa362dd479f3486788c78a4 Claire Corbeaux edited the blog post Love, Collaboration, and Spiritual Improvement in Morrison's Jazz in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15129/ Sat, 18 Apr 2020 22:47:25 -0500 By: Rachel Balfoort, Claire Corbeaux, Yadelin Fernandez, Denis Hartnett, Randall Lombardi, Brian Vargas, Quentin Wall

When Dante and Virgil emerge once more to see the stars, they find themselves in Purgatory, […]

]]> 0 71d9be1620db1c4943339d10ba5ac44b Claire Corbeaux edited the blog post Recognizing the Destruction of Divine Justice and the Contortion of Contrapasso: The Injustice of Society and How to Fix It in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15013/ Wed, 26 Feb 2020 23:18:30 -0500 By Micayah Ambriz, Tommy Castronova, Alice Chen, Claire Corbeaux, Kat Johnson, Mya Nazaire, and Emily Zandy.

The Inferno, the first part of Dante’s Divine Comedy, describes the poet’s unique and influential […]

]]> 0 16383dfdc9eba04c412d102fa8371dbb Claire Corbeaux wrote a new blog post Above and Beyond in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14220/ Tue, 26 Nov 2019 01:29:05 -0500 Though I began this semester wondering about the gender roles and norms that women were subject to during the Victorian period, I, inevitably and thoroughly, learned about that topic and many, many other topics […]

]]> 0 d7c748be331c0df29242cc613feaa66b Claire Corbeaux edited the blog post Catherine, Judith, and Gender Norms in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14138/ Tue, 19 Nov 2019 01:06:50 -0500 Though women are still burdened by many different paradoxical and unfair standards today, my knowledge of Victorian literature seems to indicate that intensely contradictory and unrealistic norms have always been […]

]]> 0 3b8bb430d40ac4dbf80d7fce05c37bef Claire Corbeaux commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14095/ Tue, 12 Nov 2019 20:06:05 -0500 This entire paragraph discusses Wilde’s lack of attachment to religion.

]]> 0 0379bb2a877b358a68a50d7f0041ef07 Claire Corbeaux commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14094/ Tue, 12 Nov 2019 20:05:43 -0500 Here Wilde claims that religion cannot help him.

]]> 0 5d189ad3b4c6befe4cc2cfb33b26eca4 Claire Corbeaux edited the blog post The Benefits of Reflection in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14062/ Mon, 11 Nov 2019 17:46:59 -0500 In both Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations and Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis, the reader is presented with a reflective, and, at least partially, regretful narrator. Though Pip represents a fictional narrator and […]

]]> 0 be440c20a4eb921c34f78ea49e708c6d Claire Corbeaux commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14028/ Thu, 07 Nov 2019 20:39:39 -0500 Estella’s vision has been unclouded by the passing of years and the life experiences that she has accumulated. She is finally able to recognize the significance that Pip had upon her life and the place he has in her heart.

]]> 0 017099fb766b5fd6140f5f7572465564 Claire Corbeaux commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14012/ Wed, 06 Nov 2019 15:18:40 -0500 This paragraph pays substantial attention to boats and lists many different kinds of boats and details the form and function of said boats. This concern with and extensive description of boats makes me think back […]

]]> 0 390d0fc4ade338e79a2271a62023b5d6 Claire Corbeaux wrote a new blog post Ghosts in Wuthering Heights and Great Expectations in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13992/ Tue, 05 Nov 2019 00:53:09 -0500 Wuthering Heights ends with a striking and iconic depiction of ghosts when a young boy perceives the spectral Heathcliff and Catherine upon the heath, roaming the earth together in an atypically active afterlife. […]

]]> 0 c9c2fa1b4726bf56f19f6437f7465220 Claire Corbeaux wrote a new blog post Great Expectations for Catherine and Pip in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13911/ Tue, 29 Oct 2019 01:01:15 -0500 In both Wuthering Heights and Great Expectations, the audience sees the novels’ respective protagonists, Catherine and Pip, rise from “obscurity” and “coarseness” to higher social stations. For Catherine, this […]

]]> 0 2d614ce0b8716ff77cd94ae2c58f7707 Claire Corbeaux commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13906/ Mon, 28 Oct 2019 23:39:51 -0500 What does Mr. Jaggers mean by “‘You know what I am, don’t you?'” How can one begin to answer this question? And why is Mr. Jaggers so fascinated with Drummle, yet so insistent that Pip stays away from him?

]]> 0 596f04f618867d66309ce6b4333cb472 Claire Corbeaux commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13905/ Mon, 28 Oct 2019 23:27:44 -0500 Why does Mr. Jaggers wash his hands, and even, at times, wash his face and “gargle his throat” after seeing clients? What does this practice suggest about his internal life versus his daunting outer life as a […]

]]> 0 843699c5f6510db242e548c496a1aba0 Claire Corbeaux wrote a new blog post Dust and Time in "In Memoriam" and "Great Expectations" in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13817/ Mon, 21 Oct 2019 15:39:09 -0500 While reading the beginning of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, I experienced a fair amount of anticipation with regards to meeting the infamously eccentric character, Miss Havisham. I knew that Miss Havisham […]

]]> 0 e6f63dee4b92eaeb74ef3bd146acd10d Claire Corbeaux wrote a new blog post Polyptoton in Tennyson's "In Memoriam" in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13723/ Thu, 17 Oct 2019 00:32:44 -0500 According to Erik Gray in his essay, “Polyptoton in In Memoriam: Evolution, Speculation, Elegy” Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem, “In Memoriam,” utilizes an interesting and particular scheme of repetition that is k […]

]]> 0 2348fd909364dadbfd00b55897835751 Claire Corbeaux wrote a new blog post The Life and Ideologies of Thomas Malthus in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13696/ Thu, 10 Oct 2019 00:19:01 -0500 Thomas Malthus was an influential English economist who began his career as a demographer, studying the ebbs and flows of the English population. Eventually, Malthus entered the field of economics in opposition […]

]]> 0 c02be648610fe3e8ac9dcedf88f4b63c Claire Corbeaux edited the blog post Chambers, Babbage, Lovelace, and the Importance of Models in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13676/ Tue, 08 Oct 2019 02:06:31 -0500 While reading Robert Chambers’ Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, I was surprised to see the name of Charles Babbage embedded within the text and was even more surprised to see Chambers quote and employ […]

]]> 0 5ced0e78531b60aeed447aed5967388e Claire Corbeaux edited the blog post The Illusion of Time in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13613/ Tue, 01 Oct 2019 01:58:16 -0500 Something that has always fascinated me about Wuthering Heights is the strange, all-consuming cycle that rages across generations; wrecking one entirely and nearly destroying the second. This cycle’s presence […]

]]> 0 fbc0de4b8cf9aedeab2b8c6f69f3f618 Claire Corbeaux commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13589/ Sun, 29 Sep 2019 17:07:35 -0500 The fact that the little boy can see the spirits of Heathcliff and a woman, presumably Cathy, makes me think back to the conversation Prof. Schacht engaged the class in on Thursday’s class. Can we attribute the […]

]]> 0 78776789157d3e0a935831cd01c399f2 Claire Corbeaux edited the blog post Hareton and Romantic Hope in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13559/ Tue, 24 Sep 2019 02:15:56 -0500 Though the semester has only really just begun, class discussions have already gone into great depth about a number of topics, one such topic being the role of hope in Romantic literature. As a result of these […]

]]> 0 77081b368bc6d646d9ba6068134b6f1d Claire Corbeaux commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13510/ Wed, 18 Sep 2019 18:20:07 -0500 What exactly is Nelly getting at here? What does she mean when she says that “we must be for ourselves in the long run?” Furthermore, what is the implication of saying that the mild and generous are only more […]

]]> 0 a9347025dd210ca42146826f19090198 Claire Corbeaux commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13497/ Tue, 17 Sep 2019 19:52:02 -0500 Our group found it interesting that Logan, in the above comment, assumes that the scene described in the paragraph is a dream. Some members of our group agreed with this assumption and others dissented. Does our […]

]]> 0 975554bbb7a619f41d4e5cf745eae668 Claire Corbeaux wrote a new blog post The Rejection of Structured Spirituality through Romanticism in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13473/ Sun, 15 Sep 2019 22:47:02 -0500 One of the earliest discussions I can recall from this class is that which was ruled by our attempts to find a definition for Romanticism, the literary movement that dominated the first half of the Victorian […]

]]> 0 370251feac35eaea43566a8bc378c088 Claire Corbeaux commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13342/ Tue, 10 Sep 2019 19:17:38 -0500 To what extend does Martineau’s refusal to acquiescence serve as an effective form of political action? And how effective is the same technique in today’s world?

]]> 0 1fbe68af6dbbf1395f738b06125e06b1 Claire Corbeaux edited the blog post How Should One "Mend" Society? in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13311/ Mon, 09 Sep 2019 17:08:35 -0500 While consuming and considering the assigned readings for this past weekend, my mind was constantly searching for connections between last week’s readings and the texts before me. While I observed many glimmers […]

]]> 0 37bdceca87f0bbec05e55935bb8f802b Claire Corbeaux commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13284/ Thu, 05 Sep 2019 19:34:44 -0500 How is Mill’s source of depression in his autobiography different from that of Carlyle in Sator Resartus? Why would Wordsworth’s poetry (which channels the Romantic concept of the sublime through the dis […]

]]> 0 e3843bbc1aa6bf39ebfbf3aec1cac45a Claire Corbeaux wrote a new blog post What I Hope to Learn this Semester in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13244/ Tue, 03 Sep 2019 00:22:06 -0500 My fondness for Victorian Literature began when I was tasked with reading Jane Eyre in my senior year of high school English. It was the end of the year and I had already completed my formal final exam for the […]

]]> 0 b4ce028072ca09aef833a443cfeeebd4 Claire Corbeaux replied to the topic Favorite work of Victorian literature in the forum Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/nineteenth-century-studies/forum/topic/favorite-work-of-victorian-literature/page/2/#post-1437 Thu, 29 Aug 2019 19:11:16 -0500 Wuthering Heights

]]> 618c151859c65659e80055efdd424f2d Claire Corbeaux joined the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13103/ Thu, 29 Aug 2019 19:08:50 -0500 0 eb0de13fe5492d78e69b5792b608346c Claire Corbeaux joined the group Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13058/ Thu, 29 Aug 2019 16:45:38 -0500 0 f575a11408477e209716893cca8cceb2 Claire Corbeaux edited the blog post Crossing Boundaries Once Again in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12884/ Thu, 16 May 2019 19:31:12 -0500 When I first enrolled at SUNY Geneseo, and even when I first registered for this course, I was skeptical, but curious, about the relationship between the sciences and the humanities. A class I took with Dr. McCoy […]

]]> 0 6244857f9c62d23652759ebd587def37 Claire Corbeaux wrote a new blog post Paradise (to be) Posted: Uploading a Text to the Readers' Thoreau in the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12865/ Tue, 14 May 2019 18:28:07 -0500 By Claire Corbeaux, Elizabeth Gellman, Anthony Lyon, Hannah Nicchi, and Avery Padula

The objective of our final group project was to add a text by Henry David Thoreau to The Readers’ Thoreau, a site with w […]

]]> 0 48378dca8bd22dfc1fb3eeaaa70aeacb Claire Corbeaux edited the blog post Look More, Label Less in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12716/ Sat, 27 Apr 2019 19:26:49 -0500 Throughout the blogging process, I have paid considerable attention to the four horsemen that pop up again and again throughout the body of Steve Prince’s work. When discussing the horsemen in my blog posts, I […]

]]> 0 87bc4e7e996d19ea651f9ba97e338051 Claire Corbeaux wrote a new blog post The Fern in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12663/ Thu, 25 Apr 2019 16:53:19 -0500 Though Dr. Yang has moved on to discussing ecology in General Biology II, my favorite unit would have to be the one we began with, wherein I learned about plant species diversity. I (re-)learned that all plants […]

]]> 0 de8b5157660a2800bd0f470871792138 Claire Corbeaux wrote a new blog post Once Again Addressing Force in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12630/ Tue, 23 Apr 2019 19:59:46 -0500 Though I am officially no longer a physics major, my life has remained entangled (perhaps quantumly so) with the sciences. It sometimes seems to me as if the sciences refuse to relinquish their hold on me, as this […]

]]> 0 76b91ef98d415d8bb96e43704188d0e6 Claire Corbeaux edited the blog post Seeing Sound Waves (and More) in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12588/ Fri, 19 Apr 2019 00:09:13 -0500 Last semester, I worked as an undergraduate lab instructor in the physics department for Dr. McLean’s “The Science of Sound” course. I thoroughly enjoyed working in this position and feel that I learned a great […]

]]> 0 851d0b9b261c60d641f2a788a9e55c5c Claire Corbeaux edited the blog post Untangling Sustainability in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12578/ Wed, 17 Apr 2019 01:42:38 -0500 By Liv Binda, Sarah Bracy, Claire Corbeaux, Lindsey Kriaris, Noah Mazer, Sarah-Anne Michel, and Morgan Torre

Sustainability is a frequently used buzzword, defined as “a socio-ecological process characterized by […]

]]> 0 7f4226f9bd6948352786ddec49755dc8 Claire Corbeaux edited the blog post Technical and Conceptual Learning as a Vehicle for Change in the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12546/ Mon, 15 Apr 2019 16:35:06 -0500 With more than half a semester’s worth of learning and work behind me, it is safe to say that I have a great deal more knowledge now than when I began English 340 in January. The scope of skills and concepts I […]

]]> 0 6a281a46a2443747c8233df52e296a86 Claire Corbeaux edited the blog post Pushing Back in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12521/ Fri, 12 Apr 2019 03:24:59 -0500 Where most of my thoughts surrounding Joe Moran’s Interdisciplinarity once centered around the manner in which language defines or informs science and vice versa, a comment from Dr. McCoy in lecture a few weeks […]

]]> 0 15b4aba001d939b5ea5cae323a7f5150 Claire Corbeaux edited the blog post The Protecting Power of Destruction in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12446/ Tue, 26 Mar 2019 01:09:18 -0500 In my last post, I wrote about the connection I perceived between the Baby Dolls of New Orleans and Steve Prince’s artistic depiction of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. I was able to visualize and solidify […]

]]> 0 9cd45975cd21f896f5e0b61f5a60dacb Claire Corbeaux edited the blog post Those Who Straddle the Line in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12391/ Fri, 08 Mar 2019 21:55:40 -0500 In my last post, I discussed the Baby Doll maskers of the New Orleans Carnival tradition and their challenging of the Puritan notion of Providence introduced by Dr. Cope. Particularly, I focused on their […]

]]> 0 a406b9b90c21397b1541ddc23d9e6f8f Claire Corbeaux wrote a new blog post Providence and the Baby Dolls in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12359/ Thu, 28 Feb 2019 22:10:00 -0500 Each time a supporting faculty member visits class, I am given more and more tools that allow me to better analyze both Prince’s work and the assigned class readings. Additionally, the contributions of the […]

]]> 0 45e3e233b63bb443c78a7930a7e4e4ae Claire Corbeaux started the topic Group 6 Question 2/27 in the forum Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/group-6-question-2-27/ Wed, 27 Feb 2019 17:56:24 -0500 While the deluge of information is capable of keeping us aware of current events, particularly tragedies and disasters, we can sometimes find ourselves desensitized by the constant barrage of such information. How can we prevent becoming apathetic in the face of the information flood?

]]> 7a40278fa3e73e692720e4a041b13c76 Claire Corbeaux wrote a new blog post On Comprehending my Computer, Humanity, and even Myself in the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12292/ Tue, 19 Feb 2019 20:23:18 -0500 Prior to taking this course, I had a close but toxic relationship with my computer. This peculiar bond was formed through my experiences as a dedicated yet struggling physics major in the first half of my college […]

]]> 0 fc59f5fbd9df81a871898efd0271ad9b Claire Corbeaux wrote a new blog post Crossing Boundaries in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12230/ Sun, 10 Feb 2019 02:39:36 -0500 When Dr. McCoy first announced she would be teaching “The Art of Steve Prince” back in the fall of 2018, I was immediately intrigued. I was not only struck by the powerful image that graced the flyer advertising […]

]]> 0 c08d7e73b62c139c7f085772b4165715 Claire Corbeaux started the topic Group 6 Question in the forum Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/group-6-question/ Mon, 04 Feb 2019 18:11:21 -0500 Do languages/symbols inform a culture or does a culture inform languages/symbols?

]]> 57fb24e0aa1f06efd1ddac726552883b Claire Corbeaux joined the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12037/ Fri, 25 Jan 2019 21:05:12 -0500 0 c02e48553908ad2b706581878e3ef8bb Claire Corbeaux joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12036/ Fri, 25 Jan 2019 21:04:31 -0500 0 913de1b75ee918419bf3ef5a6253d75b Claire Corbeaux joined the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10546/ Thu, 06 Sep 2018 00:55:45 -0500 0