English @ SUNY Geneseo | Mary Vacchetto | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/mav6/activity/ Activity feed for Mary Vacchetto. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 ebac6b91b4e293d1153c0fac5ef713dd Mary Vacchetto wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=455 Tue, 31 Mar 2015 14:27:56 -0500 As a reader of John D’Agata’s and a student in a creative nonfiction class, I do find it a bit hard to take in the truth of D’Agata’s note section at the close of his story, About a Mountain. Though it is arguable […]

]]> 56a41e01e1856eb2aa77f5d5b01afb4d Mary Vacchetto wrote a new post on the site Reader and Text http://readerandtext.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=746 Fri, 27 Mar 2015 20:31:42 -0500 Theory whether it be scientific or literary, serves the purpose to question the various interpretations of the world around us by using language to structure our perceptions to convey our beliefs. Moran defines […]

]]> be67b656e4f92369193ef21ee017fb5d Mary Vacchetto commented on the post, 50% Banana, on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/03/09/50-banana/#comment-224 Mon, 09 Mar 2015 22:14:06 -0500 I enjoyed your human-banana analogy! I too agree that Slater uses metaphoric devices to paint the picture of her story not as it had been literally but, figuratively. By admitting to her readers that she is both […]

]]> 4e9e313e45852b366d3c3496f9ed5b81 Mary Vacchetto commented on the post, Lauren Slater's Heideggerian Truth, on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/03/08/lauren-slaters-heideggerian-truth/#comment-223 Mon, 09 Mar 2015 22:02:25 -0500 Your thoughts on Slater as , “The creative, compulsive, depressive, resilient, witty Lauren Slater evolves, devolves, and evolves again right before our eyes—and not by her telling us so, but by her showing us so” […]

]]> 339bff8e2e06ba4abcbd246747db6cbe Mary Vacchetto wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=385 Mon, 09 Mar 2015 21:53:27 -0500 Classification of genre does not matter in the sense of story. Whether it be creative nonfiction or fiction, the authorial intent is the same, to create a story of meanings to their audience; to tell a story that […]

]]> 05eece280bc4a17ab12742eccbddb762 Mary Vacchetto wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=185 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 11:18:11 -0500 While I sat and listen to Serial I was effeminately emotionally attached. I am not sure why I became so emotional attached to this case as I have no ties to the “victim” “accused” or any other person within this […]

]]> 3939f5dfa23a1fb859f6148c9cfb9884 Mary Vacchetto joined the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/4103/ Tue, 03 Feb 2015 17:12:45 -0500 0 037b0accdaa3edd37fff19c3029b4b8b Mary Vacchetto wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=128 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 17:10:39 -0500 The idea that a writer is selling someone out as a means to write may in fact be true, though the means in which they do this may also lead an individual to believe that they are not selling them out, but telling […]

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