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Erin Herbst wrote a new blog post Cycling Backwards and Moving Forwards with The Tempest in the group American Studies: 5 years, 12 months ago
In a class and a semester that has been full of reflection, I thought it would be fitting to note that I first read The Tempest in my first literature class here at Geneseo, ENGL 203: Reading Transnationally with […]
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Erin Herbst wrote a new blog post How To Teach Colson Whitehead in College Classrooms in the group American Studies: 6 years ago
This semester, I’ve read novels by Colson Whitehead in two of my classes. The experiences were different since in this class I read the novel as a student, becoming aware of plot twists at the same time as e […]
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Erin Herbst wrote a new blog post Water, Water Everywhere in the group American Studies: 6 years ago
I’ve always heard my grandpa say “Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink,” and I really couldn’t tell you why he says it. The actual line comes from an 1798 text, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. I can s […]
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Erin Herbst edited the blog post The Strengths of Abolitionist Rhetoric in 2018 in the group American Studies: 6 years ago
I was particularly interested in the Prison Abolitionist Movement mentioned in Mariame Kaba’s essay “Free Us All” that we read for Friday’s class. I was familiar with the concept of prison reform and even the arguments in decreasing the numbers of prisons across the country, but I had never heard of prison abolitionism. It piqued my interes…[Read more]
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Erin Herbst edited the blog post More on Hurricanes and Names in the group American Studies: 6 years, 1 month ago
I’ll be the first to admit that I stopped posting on the blog the last few weeks because I got stuck. Stuck in my own busy semester, stuck in the unexpected emotions that surfaced in me while watching Levees, and stuck in the shock of realizing that I hadn’t noticed some of these important things before. But after class today, and being able to…[Read more]
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Erin Herbst edited the blog post Stumbling across relevant poetry in the group American Studies: 6 years, 1 month ago
I found this poem in a chapbook entitled Counting Descent by Clint Smith, who is one of my favorite poets/writers/people to follow on Twitter. I was reading when I came across this poem and naturally thought this could serve as a good blog post, especially since we’re going to be looking at Blood Dazzler in class soon and we looked at poems in…[Read more]
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Erin Herbst edited the blog post Some Sunday thoughts on effigies and bodies in the group American Studies: 6 years, 2 months ago
After completing my first blog post with relative ease, I found myself slipping into a state of acute stress regarding my impending second post. I, much like Jenna explains in this post, was worried that whatever I had to say wasn’t going to be significant enough, or worth a reader’s time. The content in this class seems TOO significant for me to…[Read more]
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Erin Herbst edited the blog post What Gets Churned Up? in the group American Studies: 6 years, 3 months ago
Since I’m familiar with the blog assignment, because I’ve taken a few classes with Beth before, I thought maybe I’d start off the conversation specifically related to ENGL 432. I know we haven’t delved too far into the course readings, but I thought that I could provide some useful thoughts on some of the introductory discussions we’ve had and a…[Read more]
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Erin Herbst wrote a new blog post Some synthesized thoughts on Jazz/Purgatorio part 1 in the group American Studies: 6 years, 3 months ago
While I think there is a benefit to examining specific similarities between Morrison’s Jazz and Dante’s Purgatorio, I also believe that, in order to make more progress on this project, it is important to also see […]
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Erin Herbst wrote a new blog post Recurrence of “Vesper” in the group American Studies: 6 years, 5 months ago
In my rereading of Jazz, I was intrigued on page 30 when Morrison begins a paragraph with, “They met in Vesper County, Virginia, under a walnut tree.” I knew that Vespers was a type of prayer, and so immediately […]
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Erin Herbst edited the blog post Dante, Morrison, and the prevalence of “violence” in the group American Studies: 6 years, 6 months ago
**I’ll just start with saying that this is definitely going to be one out of a few blog posts I write in the next few days. I’m seeing a lot of connections between the two texts and have just some other thoughts on this whole process/project and I think that my ideas are best understood if they’re separated into different posts, rather than one…[Read more]
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Erin Herbst edited the blog post “Love” in Jazz in the group American Studies: 6 years, 6 months ago
In my last post, I was thinking about the three categories of love that Dante splits Purgatory into: Misdirected Love, Deficient Love, and Excessive Love. I’ve been trying to compare this to how Morrison uses love in Jazz. So last night I became the human “control + F” and scanned through Jazz, trying to find every use of “love.” What I found w…[Read more]
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Erin Herbst wrote a new blog post Jazz (take two) thoughts in the group American Studies: 6 years, 6 months ago
I figured I’d post this after finishing Jazz now for the second time. Literally like right after. I think I put the book down three minutes ago. There’s a feeling that comes after finishing a novel and if you […]
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Erin Herbst wrote a new blog post A bit of a research breakthrough in the group American Studies: 6 years, 7 months ago
When presented with the chance to do research on Morrison, and specifically her connections to Dante, I was thrilled; it felt as if I was getting the chance to do real things in terms of literary analysis in a […]
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Erin Herbst edited the blog post When Harlem Was In Vogue chapter 1 thoughts in the group American Studies: 6 years, 7 months ago
I may as well start with the disclaimer that I read this chapter mainly for content, seeing some connections to Jazz and Purgatorio; I think it’s safe to say that mentions of the Great Migrations naturally make my brain think to the concept of movement in both Dante and Morrison’s works. Besides that, however, I can’t say that I have any co…[Read more]
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Erin Herbst wrote a new blog post Parable of the Talents in the group American Studies: 6 years, 11 months ago
I know that the semester is over, but I figured this would be an easy way to share this–
I started reading Parable of the Talents today, the sequel to Parable of the Sower, and most of the action is set in 20 […]
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Erin Herbst wrote a new blog post Irrelevant? in the group American Studies: 7 years ago
This will just be a quick post I promise…
I keep contemplating what Beth means when she talks about her goal every semester is to become irrelevant in class. I understand her point and agree that it is great […]
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Erin Herbst wrote a new blog post ENGL 439 Musings after a weekend on LI in the group American Studies: 7 years ago
I always hate missing this class, but I had to on Friday, so first I’d like to say thanks for everyone who has been writing blog posts! I was happy that I got to see some threads of conversation that I missed […]
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Erin Herbst wrote a new blog post Looking at Ancient Greek Origins in the group American Studies: 7 years ago
I’ve been trying to write the first section of this blog post since the beginning of the semester, and it seems now is a good time because I can center this post in Dominion as well as looping back to our e […]
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Erin Herbst wrote a new blog post How important are specifics? in the group American Studies: 7 years ago
I think it’s fair to generalize and say that for the most part, people like to know specifics of a situation. Details are used to enhance a narrative and immerse the reader in the story. Specifics in literature […]
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