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Denis Hartnett commented on the post, Coming To Terms With An Unconventional Narrator, on the site
(Im)Possibilities 5 years, 5 months agoHello! I’ve been thinking about this and how I felt reading the trilogy. In the end I think it was closer to platonic but much deeper than that. In Essun Hoa found a kindred spirit, they understood each other. […]
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Denis Hartnett edited the blog post The Reality of Literary Sin and Consequence in the group
American Studies: 6 years, 6 months agoBy: Ashley Daddona, Katie Haefele, Allie Flanagan, Quentin Wall, Denis Hartnett, Margaret Hall, and Brian Vargas
There is often a line when representing real life concepts in literature. Literature allows the […]
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Denis Hartnett commented on the post, If This Isn’t Niess, What Is?, on the site
(Im)Possibilities 7 years, 8 months agoWouldn’t It Be Gneiss
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Denis Hartnett commented on the post, If This Isn’t Niess, What Is?, on the site
(Im)Possibilities 7 years, 8 months agoMan don’t you love that one Beach Boys song
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Denis Hartnett wrote a new blog post Some Final ThinkING in the group
American Studies: 7 years, 8 months agoBefore starting this assignment, because I genuinely did not know how to start it and needed some time to procrastinate, I decided to look back a bit. I started at the beginning, a very good place to start I am […]
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Denis Hartnett edited the blog post For The Greater Good of Who? in the group
American Studies: 7 years, 9 months agoWhenever I hear or read the phrase “for the greater good” it always makes me feel really uneasy. I feel like something about its connotations and many possible meanings just leaves the definition too open for int […]
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Denis Hartnett wrote a new blog post Coming To Terms With An Unconventional Narrator in the group
American Studies: 7 years, 9 months agoA big question that I wrestled with throughout this series was how reliable is our narrator? It was something I struggled with more in The Fifth Season more than any of the other books because, up until the end, […]
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Denis Hartnett wrote a new blog post Evil Earth vs. Evil Death in the group
American Studies: 7 years, 9 months agoAn interesting piece of linguistics in these novels, that I’ve been monitoring for a while, is the use of the phrase Evil Earth. The phrase is said by almost every character that lives in the Stillness, g […]
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Denis Hartnett wrote a new blog post Rethinking Heroism in the group
American Studies: 7 years, 9 months agoIn The Broken Earth trilogy Jemisin tackles the idea of heroism in a very interesting way. For most of the trilogy I did not believe that there was a hero in this story. It seemed like The Stillness was too […]
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Denis Hartnett wrote a new blog post Nodes and The (Kind of) Real World Equivelent in the group
American Studies: 7 years, 9 months agoI think that the most disturbing thing from The Broken Earth trilogy is the Node maintainers. Even as we have read the other two books, very few things have shocked me to my core as Syenite and Albastors journey […]
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Denis Hartnett edited the blog post The Moon: Jemisons Fruit of Knowledge in the group
American Studies: 7 years, 9 months ago“And the Lord God commanded the man, ‘You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die […]
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Denis Hartnett wrote a new blog post The Deeper Inspiration of Catastrophe in the group
American Studies: 7 years, 9 months agoBy Denis Hartnett, Jonah Goldstein, Patrick Alexander, Michee Jacobs, Lizzie Gellman, Heather McFarlane, and AJ Jurado
The 2011 earthquake in Tohoku, Japan was a disaster on a scale to which the modern world is […]
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Denis Hartnett wrote a new blog post The Art of The Dedication in the group
American Studies: 7 years, 9 months agoWhile combing through all three novels to look for quotes for a blog post I’m currently writing, I took a second to once again look at Jemisin’s dedications. These drew my attention because of how impersonal the […]
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Denis Hartnett edited the blog post Finding Mother Earth in the group
American Studies: 7 years, 10 months agoThere was an idea I had way back when we had our conversation with Dr. Giorgis. I thought out my perception of Earth as “Mother Earth” and why I thought of our planet that way. This idea lead me to rediscover a p […]
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Denis Hartnett edited the blog post Separating Good Art From Problematic Artists in the group
American Studies: 7 years, 10 months agoAn idea that has been lying at the forefront of my brain for the last few years is how can we separate genuinely good art, whether it be literature or film, from a problematic artist.
Where this all really […]
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Denis Hartnett wrote a new blog post The Posts I Meant To Write in the group
American Studies: 8 years, 9 months agoAs we had our last day of class today I thought I’d take the time to write a bit about all the blog posts I wanted to write, but never did. I wanted to make all the points that were floating in my head during c […]
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Denis Hartnett edited the blog post The Risk of Working With Partners in the group
American Studies: 8 years, 9 months ago“There is risk in working with a partner,” is probably the Butler quote that has been brought up most often in our class, but it’s amazing how it continues to be so relevant. The part of this class that I have come to admire most is how everything relates back to each other. Like we’ll read Locke or Rousseau and make it relevant to the Clay’s…[Read more]
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Denis Hartnett wrote a new blog post A First Responder to a Stigmergency in the group
American Studies: 8 years, 9 months agoSo a few classes ago we had the opportunity to read some blog posts in class, something I had rarely done before. But it gave me a chance to read many interesting thoughts as to what’s going on in your guy’s h […]
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Denis Hartnett edited the blog post Harold Washington and Being “Too Fair” in the group
American Studies: 8 years, 9 months agoSomething that really stood out to me in the podcast we listened to on Friday was the phrase “too fair.” It’s something I’ve been thinking about the past six days because how can anything or anyone be too fair. Too fair is what we should aim for, or least should be the goal on the horizon.
I really liked how the people on the podcast kind of…[Read more]
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Denis Hartnett edited the blog post The Challenger Shuttle Disaster in the group
American Studies: 8 years, 9 months agoHey so I, and maybe some of you guys too, did not know much about the Challenger explosion that Dr. McCoy talked about on Friday. So I figured I may as well get a blog post out of it and learn a bit at the same time. In 1986 the NASA space shuttle program was still growing strong, long past the space race and the moon landing. Instead of the…[Read more]
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