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Joe Sharak posted a new page, on the site ParaDigital 1 year, 4 months ago
My Artist’s Book imagines the Earth from the perspective of an old, well-traveled man, after climate change has ravaged ecosystems and habitats–causing mass-extinction and societal collapse. The old man d […]
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Joe Sharak posted a new page, on the site ParaDigital 1 year, 4 months ago
Initially, I struggled to devise a topic for my artist’s book, but upon reflecting on my experience in a course on environmental justice, I decided I wanted to center my project on the encroaching reality of m […]
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Joe Sharak joined the group Unplugged 1 year, 4 months ago
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Joe Sharak edited the blog post Game of Names in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 4 months ago
At the beginning of the semester, Professor McCoy presented to us to three course epigraphs: the “Suspicious Pants,” Percivial Everett’s statement on the genuinity of irony, and the concluding paragraph from […]
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Joe Sharak wrote a new blog post Percivial Everett’s Use of Metaphors and Juxtapostion in the Poem “Logic” in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 4 months ago
Pervical Everett’s poem titled “Logic,” in the greater anthology of re:f(gesture) uses extremely ambiguous metaphors and juxtapositions to express the idea that concepts, such as numbers, are timeless and unbre […]
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Joe Sharak wrote a new blog post A Criticism of Intertextuality in the Poem “Zulus” from re:f(gesture) by Percival Everett in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 4 months ago
The inspiration for this post ironically stemmed from a lack of understanding of the poem “Zulus,” rather than an in-depth understanding of it. The poem, which is derived from the poetry book re:f(gesture) by […]
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Joe Sharak edited the blog post The Course Epigraph, Intertextuality, and a Budding Religion in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 4 months ago
With the final essay looming around the corner, I figured I should get some practice working with the epigraph I am going to revolve said essay around. In the beginning of the semester I chose to work with the […]
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Joe Sharak wrote a new blog post Word Economy and its Effect on Comprehension in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 4 months ago
Considering the fun I had constructing the post regarding the flawed principles of the “1930 Motion Picture Code,” I wanted to continue with a similar analysis. In that post I emphasized the Orwellian und […]
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Joe Sharak wrote a new blog post A Pseudo-Orwellian Examination of the 1930 Film Code Principles in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 4 months ago
Earlier in the semester, Professor McCoy introduced to us the “Motion Picture Production Code of 1930.” After recently watching the 1950 film Harvey, I was reminded of the film-code’s existence, and its heavy […]
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Joe Sharak wrote a new blog post How a New Critical Perspective on Percival Everett’s I Am Not Sidney Poitier Communicates the Importance of Introspection. in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 4 months ago
New Criticism is a literary ideology that revolves around examining a text for the content within its pages, and not outside them. Meaning, there is little focus placed on contextualization. Specifically, The […]
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Joe Sharak wrote a new blog post How an Intertextual Study of Percival Everett’s Parody of The Defiant Ones Paints a More Accurate Picture of American Racism. in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 4 months ago
Percival Everett parodies the 1958 movie, The Defiant Ones in his 2009 novel, I Am Not Sidney Poitier. Meanwhile, The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms defines parody as: “A form of high b […]
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Joe Sharak wrote a new blog post Repetition as a Mechanism to Express Irony in Percival Everett’s I Am Not Sidney Poitier in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 5 months ago
The literary device which makes itself most known in Percival Everett’s I Am Not Sidney Poitier, is irony. Irony, in The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms is defined as: “A contradiction or inc […]
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Joe Sharak edited the blog post Irony as a Driving Literary Device in “The Bacchae” in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 7 months ago
Irony is my favorite literary device to read, simply because of the way it can be introduced into a piece. For example, one can include irony humorously via sarcasm, as seen in The Bacchae during the long […]
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Joe Sharak created the doc Blog Post #1 in the group Reader and Text 4 years, 7 months ago
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Joe Sharak joined the group Reader and Text 4 years, 8 months ago
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Joe Sharak became a registered member 4 years, 8 months ago