English @ SUNY Geneseo | Joseph Fennie | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/joefennie/activity/ Activity feed for Joseph Fennie. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 141c148f5a94ca6fc10bb82b7559a19d Joseph Fennie wrote a new post on the site Nineteenth-Century Studies http://c19.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=212 Fri, 12 Dec 2014 00:03:21 -0500 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 […]

]]> 335b96a1355cc703224a93506bcb3c66 Joseph Fennie commented on the post, Progression of Ideas of Consciousness in Victorian England , on the site Nineteenth-Century Studies http://c19.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/11/19/progression-of-ideas-of-consciousness-in-victorian-england/#comment-1516 Wed, 19 Nov 2014 18:32:31 -0500 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 […]

]]> 7958d3ac5477e1b0eafb46dbcba4adfa Joseph Fennie commented on the post, Female Sexuality in Victorian Literature, on the site Nineteenth-Century Studies http://c19.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/10/28/female-sexuality-in-victorian-literature/#comment-968 Mon, 03 Nov 2014 01:16:19 -0500 Group 5:
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 […]

]]> 6e832682b952d55ec8e22b71a494e123 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 http://c19.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/09/10/influence-of-dickens-contemporary-critics-on-social-discussion/#comment-68 Thu, 11 Sep 2014 01:09:21 -0500 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 […]

]]> 18a322c350c8508c455de0cc7eea65fd Joseph Fennie replied to the topic Why Dickens? in the forum Nineteenth-Century Studies http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/nineteenth-century-studies/forum/topic/why-dickens/#post-466 Mon, 25 Aug 2014 15:21:24 -0500 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]

]]> f64dd4462c6780c5e95464cf5967abd5 Joseph Fennie joined the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/2681/ Sun, 24 Aug 2014 23:08:55 -0500 0 94e108b3dc055e9582bd8febccff9f16 Joseph Fennie replied to the topic Heaney & the Romanticization of Violence in the Context of Plato in the forum Irish Studies http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/irish-studies/forum/topic/heaney-the-romanticization-of-violence-in-the-context-of-plato/#post-413 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 01:50:09 -0500 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]

]]> 11268b178080e6ad561206830462b84d Joseph Fennie replied to the topic Yeats and Heaney: Violence in the Land in the forum Irish Studies http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/irish-studies/forum/topic/yeats-and-heaney-violence-in-the-land/#post-412 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 00:14:44 -0500 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]

]]> ae1ca0e9f9644e166047cb93c5ab467b Joseph Fennie replied to the topic Commitment in "Casualty" in the forum Irish Studies http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/irish-studies/forum/topic/commitment-in-casualty/#post-407 Mon, 28 Apr 2014 20:09:15 -0500 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]

]]> 13dbb188e101d01e1c82184b9fb2f242 Joseph Fennie started the topic Yeats and Heaney: Violence in the Land in the forum Irish Studies http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/irish-studies/forum/topic/yeats-and-heaney-violence-in-the-land/ Mon, 28 Apr 2014 19:49:41 -0500 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]

]]> 7d26520efd6f7f24b16cde9129df3510 Joseph Fennie commented on the post, Stage Directions in The Only Jealousy of Emer, on the site Irish Studies http://irishstudies.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/02/18/stage-directions-in-the-only-jealousy-of-emer/#comment-44 Wed, 19 Feb 2014 16:56:12 -0500 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 […]

]]> 94974ab4fc81a9e65b0fab13517a3547 Joseph Fennie started the topic Yeats and Plato's Idea of The Good in the forum Irish Studies http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/irish-studies/forum/topic/yeats-and-platos-idea-of-the-good/ Mon, 10 Feb 2014 17:09:12 -0500 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]

]]> 619ca888efd8e946913bd9a6cd669e98 Joseph Fennie wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies http://irishstudies.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/02/04/the-rose-beyond-ireland/ Tue, 04 Feb 2014 01:35:52 -0500 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 […]

]]> 946fbf4f129440af8942ec5debe533b8 Joseph Fennie and Rob Doggett are now friends https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/383/ Mon, 27 Jan 2014 22:28:31 -0500 0 6b941926cba17b951e7d977d181d257d Joseph Fennie joined the group Irish Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/381/ Mon, 27 Jan 2014 22:28:06 -0500 0 c26ca235ea067aefb69ef6f9be139435 Joseph Fennie became a registered member https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/380/ Mon, 27 Jan 2014 22:26:48 -0500 0