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Elizabeth Roos wrote a new blog post Genre and Justice in N.K. Jemisin’s The Broken Earth Trilogy in the group American Studies: 4 years, 3 months ago

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 […]
Elizabeth Roos edited the blog post The Effects of Geological Disasters on Populations in The Fifth Season in the group American Studies: 4 years, 6 months ago

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 […]
Elizabeth Roos wrote a new blog post Final Reflection Essay: The Irony We Find in Reflection in the group Reader and Text: 6 years, 8 months ago

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 […]
Elizabeth Roos edited the blog post The Ship of Theseus and Identity in the group Reader and Text: 6 years, 9 months ago

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 […]
Elizabeth Roos edited the blog post In Defense of Romanticism in the group Reader and Text: 6 years, 9 months ago

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 […]
Elizabeth Roos wrote a new blog post An End Goal of Catharsis in the group Reader and Text: 6 years, 9 months ago

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 […]
Elizabeth Roos wrote a new blog post Rats from Rags and Dust in the group Reader and Text: 6 years, 9 months ago

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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 […]
Elizabeth Roos wrote a new blog post Description Without Metaphor in the group Reader and Text: 6 years, 9 months ago

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 […]
Elizabeth Roos edited the blog post Should Genre Fiction be Considered Lowbrow? in the group Reader and Text: 6 years, 10 months ago

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 […]
Elizabeth Roos wrote a new blog post The Death of the Author in the group Reader and Text: 6 years, 10 months ago

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 […]

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