English @ SUNY Geneseo | Joe Sharak | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/joesharak/activity/ Activity feed for Joe Sharak. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 2e8fab36d56e91ebba659b6f136b748e Joe Sharak posted a new page, on the site ParaDigital https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16181/ Thu, 08 Dec 2022 02:49:00 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 fab37245ec325c93bd9e8901ff9b1d77 Joe Sharak posted a new page, on the site ParaDigital https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16179/ Thu, 08 Dec 2022 00:41:53 -0500 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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]]> 0 64bf3ca693ad65184b6ade3ef64d6193 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 https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14487/ Sun, 08 Dec 2019 02:38:38 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 f0bd79a437803c5f6ff732abb5cfa3db 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 https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14486/ Sun, 08 Dec 2019 02:37:04 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 205cdced7ee423664692515b9525d154 Joe Sharak edited the blog post The Course Epigraph, Intertextuality, and a Budding Religion in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14427/ Sat, 07 Dec 2019 04:04:57 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 f40e588c56a392ba1663120c5a0cbcf6 Joe Sharak wrote a new blog post Word Economy and its Effect on Comprehension in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14408/ Fri, 06 Dec 2019 17:46:30 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 1d44532d051e8a30e05dcfbaf441fb5d Joe Sharak wrote a new blog post A Pseudo-Orwellian Examination of the 1930 Film Code Principles in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14407/ Fri, 06 Dec 2019 17:45:00 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 fbeae06a2d38de59114d55b6cff2108f 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 https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14363/ Wed, 04 Dec 2019 22:04:44 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 e456aa7ffcdafa357a98d695f46d372f 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 https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14362/ Wed, 04 Dec 2019 21:45:01 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 b316e08f850a6de4a5beff369d19d475 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 https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14186/ Fri, 22 Nov 2019 21:02:28 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 491dc3e04392dade1784e0b448649788 Joe Sharak edited the blog post Irony as a Driving Literary Device in "The Bacchae" in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13540/ Mon, 23 Sep 2019 19:23:10 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 1f21af8d9f80e5e43db3dddfd6f29369 Joe Sharak created the doc Blog Post #1 in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13539/ Mon, 23 Sep 2019 18:47:04 -0500 21e95b0c4d1dfbd476183643bbd713a1 Joe Sharak joined the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13196/ Fri, 30 Aug 2019 21:00:27 -0500 0 d4b4f907ce4813f229c8666ab997f646 Joe Sharak became a registered member https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13194/ Fri, 30 Aug 2019 21:00:04 -0500 0