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Sean McAneny wrote a new blog post Data-Mining Walden: Tools for Literary Analysis in the group Digital Humanities: 7 years, 3 months ago

Henry David Thoreau had a fraught relationship with technology. As we discussed in our presentation, it is difficult to tell whether he would be on board with our digital projects regarding his work. What we can […]
Sean McAneny edited the blog post Reflecting on the Semester with Lucille Clifton in the group American Studies: 7 years, 3 months ago

surely i am able to write poems
celebrating grass and how the blue
in the sky can flow green or red
and the waters lean against the
chesapeake shore like a familiar
poems about nature and landscape
surely […]
Sean McAneny wrote a new blog post Big Machine, Intertext and Allegory in the group American Studies: 7 years, 4 months ago

In class on Friday, 4/26, our group put Big Machine in conversation with a few other texts that we had encountered earlier this semester, as well as a few others from outside the class. In addition to The Last An […]
Sean McAneny wrote a new blog post Sydney Smith and “Who Reads an American Book”: Some Remaining Questions in the group American Studies: 7 years, 4 months ago

“The Americans are a brave, industrious, and acute people; but they have hitherto given no indications of genius, and made no approaches to the heroic, either in their morality or character….Where are their […]
Sean McAneny wrote a new blog post Some Additional Thoughts on Sustainability and Interdisciplinary Study in the group American Studies: 7 years, 4 months ago

Upon registering for classes last fall, I made the decision to venture outside of my major, English, and take a few classes in the sciences. I wanted to try out a different way of thinking, one that I hadn’t […]
Sean McAneny wrote a new blog post Democracy and Digitization in the group Digital Humanities: 7 years, 4 months ago

Like the human brain or the deepest parts of the ocean, the potential for discovery in the digital age seems boundless, especially to someone new to computing like me. Literature and Literary Study in the Digital […]
Sean McAneny edited the blog post A Semiotic Reading of a Courthouse in the group American Studies: 7 years, 4 months ago

Two weeks ago, I traveled to St. Louis with six other English students and Dr. Paku to present a paper at the Sigma Tau Delta International Convention. During the last day of our visit we went to a courthouse that […]
Sean McAneny edited the blog post Light and Shadows, Dope and Paint, Sociology and Art in the group American Studies: 7 years, 5 months ago

When we speak of a “diamond in the rough,” are we being ironic? For when we say this do we not ignore the dark and organic geologic history of the shiny diamond’s formation? A diamond comes from the rough; it is […]
Sean McAneny edited the blog post On Favorites and Doing What You Love in the group American Studies: 7 years, 5 months ago

Upon its first consideration, the task of choosing a favorite poem from Angles of Ascent seemed difficult, if not daunting. Beyond the difficulty of pinning down one poem in anthology of hundreds, this a […]
Sean McAneny edited the blog post “Call and Response” in the group American Studies: 7 years, 6 months ago

Call and Response, our massive anthology, sets up texts of African American traditions in such a way that pieces begin to function as questions and answers to each other. This clever formation allows for […]

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