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Joseph Fennie wrote a new post on the site Nineteenth-Century Studies 9 years, 3 months ago
Project presented by Joseph Fennie, Hannah Glaser, Jacob Trost, Hannah Sugarman, and Kevin O’Connor
The maps engine group was tasked with creating a map or maps that showed information regarding Dickens and his […]
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Joseph Fennie commented on the post, Progression of Ideas of Consciousness in Victorian England , on the site Nineteenth-Century Studies 9 years, 4 months ago
Group 5:
The blog post discusses how Dickens uses Pip’s story of rising to status from being born of “low-blood” to show that physical factors affect one’s personality and sense of self. Pip’s sense of self and […] -
Joseph Fennie commented on the post, Female Sexuality in Victorian Literature, on the site Nineteenth-Century Studies 9 years, 4 months ago
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From Schacht and Schroeder’s report we can conclude that Victorian society is one in which the independent female is oppressed in a sense of freedom and sexuality. Schacht explains, however, that there […] -
Joseph Fennie commented on the post, Influence of Dickens’ Contemporary Critics on Social Discussion of the New Poor Law and Workhouses, on the site Nineteenth-Century Studies 9 years, 6 months ago
Group 5
The anonymous review discussed by group two states that Dickens’ characters lack a moral sensibility that readers can relate to or even understand. The reviewer concludes that Dickens does, indeed, paint […] -
Joseph Fennie replied to the topic Why Dickens? in the forum Nineteenth-Century Studies 9 years, 6 months ago
I decided to sign up for the Dickens class because throughout High School, and even my first two years of college, I never experienced any of Dickens’ writings either through his written work or general literary connections. I feel as if Dickens plays a much larger role in western literature than I have been currently presented with, and I wanted…[Read more]
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Joseph Fennie joined the group Nineteenth-Century Studies 9 years, 6 months ago
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Joseph Fennie replied to the topic Heaney & the Romanticization of Violence in the Context of Plato in the forum Irish Studies 9 years, 10 months ago
Interestingly enough Plato’s idea of banishing the poets from his imagined society has worked its way into the history of the world and its civilizations. Marx himself dismissed art from his communal society, since it distracts the individual from the progression of the whole. In a more applied sense, Hitler destroyed thousands of pieces of art…[Read more]
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Joseph Fennie replied to the topic Yeats and Heaney: Violence in the Land in the forum Irish Studies 9 years, 10 months ago
Vera, I still believe there to be a possible issue when he turns his cousin into a symbol. The imagery is clearly Christian in nature, turning his brother into a Christ-like figure: “I lift you under the arms and lay you flat,” Heaney writes. This symbolization of the dead feeds into the cycle of violence that was prominent during Heaney’s…[Read more]
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Joseph Fennie replied to the topic Commitment in "Casualty" in the forum Irish Studies 9 years, 10 months ago
I agree, especially with the line “How culpable was he / That last night when he broke / Our tribe’s complicity?” Truly the fault of the violence comes from the people who are so passionate that they will go to these means to stop those who break the silly curfew. It relates back to one of Yeats’s line from “The Second Coming”, Yeats writes, “The…[Read more]
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Joseph Fennie started the topic Yeats and Heaney: Violence in the Land in the forum Irish Studies 9 years, 10 months ago
An era of violence pervades the poetry and lifetimes of both Yeats and Heaney in Ireland. This ever looming sense of violence is addressed by both poets in several poems most notably in Yeats’s “Easter, 1916” and Heaney’s “The Strand at Lough Beg”. Yeats and Heaney are in the middle of two different times of violence. Yeats is alive in the middle…[Read more]
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Joseph Fennie commented on the post, Stage Directions in The Only Jealousy of Emer, on the site Irish Studies 10 years, 1 month ago
I think it has a lot to do with Yeats wanting to appeal to the aristocracy and those who he believes understand his art more clearly. I think because this specific play was only produced in the homes of the […]
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Joseph Fennie started the topic Yeats and Plato's Idea of The Good in the forum Irish Studies 10 years, 1 month ago
In recent discussions we’ve mentioned Yeats’ ideas of “true” art and his abhorrence for “popular” art. In his poem, “Upon a House Shaken by the Land Agitation”, he worries whether “true” art will ever be created again, writing, “How should the world be luckier if this house, / Where passion and precision have been one / Time out of mind, became t…[Read more]
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Joseph Fennie wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 10 years, 1 month ago
Throughout most of Yeats’ poetry that we’ve already looked at, we see the usage of the rose as a symbol to represent Ireland. In his poem “To the Rose Upon the Rood of Time,” Yeats’ rose could be interpreted as […]
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Joseph Fennie and Rob Doggett are now friends 10 years, 1 month ago
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Rob Doggett and Joseph Fennie are now friends 10 years, 1 month ago
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Joseph Fennie joined the group Irish Studies 10 years, 1 month ago
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Joseph Fennie became a registered member 10 years, 1 month ago