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Hannah Smith edited the blog post My journey alongside Not Sidney and Vlepo in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 4 months ago
Reflection is a part of life that most, including myself, tend to skip over. Personally, when I look back on my life, I tend to not think deeply about the events that have occurred, since I can not change the […]
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Hannah Smith edited the blog post TedTalk: Media Mogul in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 4 months ago
by Hannah Smith and Lauren Silverman
Percival Everett’s I Am Not Sidney Poitier is a novel characterized by the media, if not for a presence of media within the novel, then for the borrowing of people and n […]
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Hannah Smith edited the blog post Defining Poetry in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 4 months ago
In this blog post, I am going to be talking about a rather interesting excerpt from The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms’s definition of poetry. The Bedford says, “Second, poetry is often con […]
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Hannah Smith edited the blog post Art, Wine, and “Logic” in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 5 months ago
Percival Everett’s Logic can have many meanings. More specifically, the poems may be understood as discussing art and wine like your average lifestyle magazine. Not to say these poems are not well written and b […]
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Hannah Smith wrote a new blog post Body, Blazon and [B]interdisciplinary in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 5 months ago
Percival Everett’s Body intervenes in the blazon form. More specifically, the poems may be understood as mocking this idea that the sciences are separate from the humanities. According to the poetry foundation, b […]
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Hannah Smith edited the blog post Isn’t it Ironic in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 5 months ago
Irony is one of the most versatile literary devices. Versatile in the way it can be used in any genre and is in most novels even if just in a small way. Irony, which is defined by The Bedford Glossary of […]
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Hannah Smith edited the blog post Realism, Intertextuality, and Picaresque Novels Oh My in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 6 months ago
In reading I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett, I took notice of the obvious intertextuality between the book and Sidney Poitier movies. For those who don’t know, intertextuality is defined as, “The web […]
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Hannah Smith edited the blog post Canon and its Application in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 6 months ago
A few weeks back, we were asked to read the introduction to Literary Analysis the basics by Celena Kusch. When I read this, I remember stopping when I got to the word “canonical.” Me being the huge Harry Pot […]
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Hannah Smith edited the blog post Categorization in Society in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 7 months ago
Recently, we discussed the categorization of books into genres and characters into boxes. In particular, we discussed the categorization of Vlepo in Percival Evertt’s novel Frenzy. In my group, Sara, in d […]
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Hannah Smith edited the blog post Misunderstandings in writing of all forms in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 7 months ago
Over the past two weeks, I have found myself thinking about suspicious pants more and more. When I first looked at the pants, I could not understand why they were so special, nor why they were on the syllabus […]
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Hannah Smith joined the group Reader and Text 4 years, 7 months ago
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Hannah Smith joined the group American Studies 4 years, 8 months ago
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Hannah Smith became a registered member 4 years, 8 months ago