English @ SUNY Geneseo | Elizabeth Roos | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/ear19/activity/ Activity feed for Elizabeth Roos. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 241f5d73ed1ca8c4d4298f62994296f4 Elizabeth Roos wrote a new blog post Genre and Justice in N.K. Jemisin’s The Broken Earth Trilogy in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15800/ Wed, 18 May 2022 22:11:04 -0500 Earlier in this semester I wrote my ThinkING Essay on how in The Broken Earth trilogy N.K. Jemisin uses geological disasters to show how richer classes are more likely to survive, and yet, regardless, how […]

]]> 0 8c131c6ff41a27678e170bac12130664 Elizabeth Roos edited the blog post The Effects of Geological Disasters on Populations in The Fifth Season in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15719/ Mon, 28 Feb 2022 18:58:11 -0500 In my reading of N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season, I have come across a multitude of interesting facets that the novel has brought up in regards to social issues, particularly in how social issues can pertain t […]

]]> 0 ee424dfdc1fbe9477fda0254c1fda622 Elizabeth Roos wrote a new blog post Final Reflection Essay: The Irony We Find in Reflection in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14523/ Thu, 12 Dec 2019 18:05:21 -0500 The interesting thing about irony for me is that real irony is far more sincere than earnestness. To accept the absurdity of a situation is to accept the humanness of it. Utter sincerity suggests a kind of belief […]

]]> 0 48cd298a57c9d78aeb0d02cfbe3620a4 Elizabeth Roos edited the blog post The Ship of Theseus and Identity in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14480/ Sun, 08 Dec 2019 02:05:41 -0500 According to myth, Theseus was an ancient Greek king who fought many battles, and founded the city-state of Athens. Because of Theseus’ success at naval battles in particular, the people of Athens chose to d […]

]]> 0 0fc7288ebb53ec6fec0859f9ad8867e9 Elizabeth Roos edited the blog post In Defense of Romanticism in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14426/ Sat, 07 Dec 2019 03:06:44 -0500 Upon my first reading of Percival Everett’s I Am Not Sidney Poitier, I marked it down as another novel deconstructing the nature of cynicism and the absurdity of life. And perhaps, it can still be observed as a n […]

]]> 0 42fb29edf91e87f2caaea531e0d9d334 Elizabeth Roos wrote a new blog post An End Goal of Catharsis in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14342/ Tue, 03 Dec 2019 23:26:55 -0500 I find myself on repeat beginning my blog posts with something that is concrete; whether that be a quote from one of the books we have read in class, or a definition from Wikipedia (which may or may not be […]

]]> 0 6f00c8a336d72886bb335b680304b826 Elizabeth Roos wrote a new blog post Rats from Rags and Dust in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14284/ Fri, 29 Nov 2019 23:17:51 -0500 5

From rags and dust

A rat is formed in the cellar.

It was not there before.

Only rats and dust

—Percival Everett, “Logic” from re: f (gesture)

Spontaneous generation is a theory that sugge […]

]]> 0 975bae1a6382956463d314ced371763a Elizabeth Roos wrote a new blog post Description Without Metaphor in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14133/ Mon, 18 Nov 2019 22:03:05 -0500 Percival Everett’s “Body” intervenes in the blazon form. More specifically, the poems may be understood as celebrating the capability of language to convey an artistic form without the use of literary devic […]

]]> 0 48c14d34db4401da5e487852940f3b8f Elizabeth Roos edited the blog post Should Genre Fiction be Considered Lowbrow? in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14057/ Mon, 11 Nov 2019 01:47:05 -0500 Wikipedia defines genre fiction as “a term used in the book-trade for fictional works written with the intent of fitting into a specific literary genre, in order to appeal to readers and fans already familiar w […]

]]> 0 93bb190a3ffe3ebd1f1880d8a0f360f8 Elizabeth Roos wrote a new blog post The Death of the Author in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13893/ Sun, 27 Oct 2019 20:52:12 -0500 Roland Barthes, both a structuralist and a poststructuralist over the course of his career, was one of the first to strip the author of a unique role accorded by Western culture and traditional literary […]

]]> 0 f9aef422e59922898305200bfc5ec517 Elizabeth Roos edited the blog post Dionysos the Author and Vlepo the Reader in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13695/ Wed, 09 Oct 2019 19:46:45 -0500 While reading Frenzy by Percival Everett, I found myself paying close attention to the relationship that Everett depicts between the central characters of Dionysos and Vlepo. Among the many additions that Everett […]

]]> 0 7b9ec47d2d2f4955d2c0932cb2dc7328 Elizabeth Roos edited the blog post Humorous and Dramatic Irony in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13507/ Wed, 18 Sep 2019 02:28:45 -0500 The  interesting  thing about irony  for me is that real  irony is far more sincere  than earnestness. To accept the absurdity of a situation is to accept the humanness of it. Utter sincerity sugg […]

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