English @ SUNY Geneseo | Denis Hartnett | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/dph7/activity/ Activity feed for Denis Hartnett. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 73a0631d92195f024a8c6df415aa7b19 Denis Hartnett commented on the post, Coming To Terms With An Unconventional Narrator, on the site (Im)Possibilities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15475/ Thu, 11 Mar 2021 15:19:20 -0500 Hello! 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. […]

]]> 0 a88461edc2a8c5437f7c8effef8c9788 Denis Hartnett edited the blog post The Reality of Literary Sin and Consequence in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15014/ Thu, 27 Feb 2020 00:59:41 -0500 By: 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 […]

]]> 0 9166c1fbaffd278229ef23a1510f1559 Denis Hartnett commented on the post, If This Isn’t Niess, What Is?, on the site (Im)Possibilities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11601/ Wed, 12 Dec 2018 18:10:18 -0500 Wouldn’t It Be Gneiss

]]> 0 c3ea10108c0824734b1b1b7537bcd78b Denis Hartnett commented on the post, If This Isn’t Niess, What Is?, on the site (Im)Possibilities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11600/ Wed, 12 Dec 2018 18:09:57 -0500 Man don’t you love that one Beach Boys song

]]> 0 cf3c17cb8655885bb2aaa80a3ed58a3e Denis Hartnett wrote a new blog post Some Final ThinkING in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11582/ Wed, 12 Dec 2018 17:19:04 -0500 Before 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 […]

]]> 0 50203cd778f3ec8793fa90a1e7674f15 Denis Hartnett edited the blog post For The Greater Good of Who? in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11390/ Sun, 02 Dec 2018 02:04:49 -0500 Whenever 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 […]

]]> 0 d514e60464e5d6d172585d352cea785a Denis Hartnett wrote a new blog post Coming To Terms With An Unconventional Narrator in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11363/ Sat, 01 Dec 2018 02:06:18 -0500 A 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, […]

]]> 0 969d570a708f4c6e4ed7042709fb7cb9 Denis Hartnett wrote a new blog post Evil Earth vs. Evil Death in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11329/ Fri, 30 Nov 2018 01:00:03 -0500 An 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 […]

]]> 0 c9cf410a3737d51c2144f0c7eaf4bcce Denis Hartnett wrote a new blog post Rethinking Heroism in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11262/ Wed, 28 Nov 2018 02:42:45 -0500 In 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 […]

]]> 0 a2b9579db250b7ba2d3fbff9d2f3542d Denis Hartnett wrote a new blog post Nodes and The (Kind of) Real World Equivelent in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11233/ Tue, 27 Nov 2018 00:39:55 -0500 I 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 […]

]]> 0 c31fa3e06a3de5529585a72f1a769bcd Denis Hartnett edited the blog post The Moon: Jemisons Fruit of Knowledge in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11206/ Sat, 24 Nov 2018 17:34:36 -0500 “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 […]

]]> 0 99603d8c4d175fcde82c64faf4312b73 Denis Hartnett wrote a new blog post The Deeper Inspiration of Catastrophe in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11165/ Fri, 16 Nov 2018 20:54:17 -0500 By 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 […]

]]> 0 2f5a007a620de84c003d57809ab19e71 Denis Hartnett wrote a new blog post The Art of The Dedication in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11154/ Thu, 15 Nov 2018 23:14:56 -0500 While 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 […]

]]> 0 fe0fe5bac28e4e26174e61e8536e66a0 Denis Hartnett edited the blog post Finding Mother Earth in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10951/ Thu, 25 Oct 2018 03:28:18 -0500 There 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 […]

]]> 0 94c3a39cfdb41785b43f8fca40a4a324 Denis Hartnett edited the blog post Separating Good Art From Problematic Artists in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10875/ Sun, 14 Oct 2018 23:54:14 -0500 An 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 […]

]]> 0 2d5b794d60a061a3d22871f0d8f7b594 Denis Hartnett wrote a new blog post The Posts I Meant To Write in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9266/ Mon, 11 Dec 2017 20:43:32 -0500 As 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 […]

]]> 0 ee21b9540afc432a8700ea81ea2aa04c Denis Hartnett edited the blog post The Risk of Working With Partners in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9183/ Fri, 08 Dec 2017 17:57:04 -0500 “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]

]]> 0 e18a1a7fa7a3583cb0ccdfc54ffbeac4 Denis Hartnett wrote a new blog post A First Responder to a Stigmergency in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9119/ Wed, 29 Nov 2017 22:49:40 -0500 So 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 […]

]]> 0 82ceb4a9cb9407920a659d76c18c9e70 Denis Hartnett edited the blog post Harold Washington and Being "Too Fair" in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8846/ Fri, 17 Nov 2017 17:47:29 -0500 Something 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]

]]> 0 90ee985703fdf2b2fe1be6e7a4b5bd5b Denis Hartnett edited the blog post The Challenger Shuttle Disaster in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9014/ Fri, 17 Nov 2017 17:47:21 -0500 Hey 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]

]]> 0 7f9d2153a231ad406ab54b2b699bc53d Denis Hartnett joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8624/ Fri, 15 Sep 2017 16:30:39 -0500 0 412404c98c31242c8623a3ba66994c53 Denis Hartnett edited the blog post The Pogues in the group Irish Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7682/ Wed, 14 Dec 2016 01:23:50 -0500 The Pogues are known as one of the most radical punk groups of the 80’s.  Founded by Shane MacGowan in 1982 with Peter, Spider, Stacy and Jim Fearnley.  They originally called themselves Pogue Mohone, an Irish phrase meaning “kiss my ass.”  They then added Jem Finer, Andrew David Ranken, and Cait O’Riordan to complete the group.  They shortened…[Read more]

]]> 0 16affa74883dad3279a35e64f48cf94c Denis Hartnett joined the group Irish Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7658/ Wed, 30 Nov 2016 19:18:14 -0500 0 1a7102db794c076d55fe9788933439a8 Denis Hartnett became a registered member https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7653/ Mon, 28 Nov 2016 21:44:06 -0500 0