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Sandy Brahaspat wrote a new blog post The Evolution of Thoreau’s Language in Walden in the group
Digital Humanities: 2 years, 10 months agoIn our group’s observations of Henry David Thoreau’s manuscripts, we noticed that his use of language developed over time as conveyed through his revisions, specifically those from Versions A to Versions D (18 […]
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Sandy Brahaspat wrote a new blog post The Merits of Applying Digital Analysis Tools to Literary Studies in the group
Digital Humanities: 2 years, 11 months agoAs a graduating senior, I have often been asked a variation of the following question: “Why study English?” and my response has always been, and will probably remain: Well, why not study English? One of the mos […]
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Sandy Brahaspat wrote a new blog post Affectionate Bears and Hostile Humans in the group
American Studies: 2 years, 11 months ago“Why do you knock me away without certainty of what is true?”
— Toni Morrison
In the beginning of Toni Morrison’s novel, A Mercy, I witnessed the first act of expulsion that takes place in the novel whe […]
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Sandy Brahaspat wrote a new blog post Intent and Consequence in the Big Short and The Turner House in the group
American Studies: 3 years agoIn my first
reading of The Big Short, to say that I was confused was a bit of an
understatement. I couldn’t wrap my head around the lack of responsibility that
Wall Street displayed in response to the 2008 H […] -
Sandy Brahaspat wrote a new blog post Deceitful Exchanges and Tumultuous Storms Depicted in Shakespeare’s King Lear in the group
American Studies: 3 years, 1 month agoShakespeare’s King Lear deals extensively with the theme of expulsion as depicted through characters like Cordelia, Kent, and King Lear himself and connects almost immediately with seemingly unconventional t […]
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Sandy Brahaspat edited the blog post The Three Functions of Language in the group
Digital Humanities: 3 years, 1 month agoIn his book, The Information, James Gleick touches upon the ways in which language serves as the conveyer of information, which I found particularly interesting in relation to how our computers engage with […]
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Sandy Brahaspat edited the blog post Themes Across Victorian Literature – Group 3 in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 3 months agoGroup 3: Sandy Brahaspat, Mallory DelSignore, Domenica Piccoli, Jasmine Vrooman
In completing our group project, we decided to use the online software Kumu to map out prevalent connections between themes like […]
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Sandy Brahaspat wrote a new blog post Resilient Heroines of Victorian Literature in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 3 months agoAs I reflect on all of the texts that we explored this semester, it is safe to say that my initial admiration for Victorian literature stands strong as ever. Throughout the course of the semester, I was […]
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Sandy Brahaspat wrote a new blog post Amy Levy: A “Jewish Jane Austen” in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 4 months agoWhen I was studying abroad in London this past Spring, I frequently visited the small bookstore Persephone Books, an independent bookseller known for reprinting texts written by neglected women writers of the […]
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Sandy Brahaspat edited the blog post Group 3 Research: Oscar Wilde’s Infamous Trials in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 4 months agoIn his article, “Re-Presenting Oscar Wilde: Wilde’s Trials, ‘Gross Indecency,’ and Documentary Spectacle,” S. I. Salamensky offers insight on Oscar Wilde’s three infamous trials that criminalised his sexual iden […]
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Sandy Brahaspat commented on the post, Morris, How We Live and How We Might Live, on the groupblog
Marginalia 3 years, 4 months agoThe line: “the claim for equality of condition will be made constantly and with growing loudness till it must be listened to, and then at last it will only be a step over the border and the civilized world will be […]
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Sandy Brahaspat wrote a new blog post Killing The Things We Love in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 4 months agoThroughout the course of the semester, we have read numerous novels that depict love as something that is both fleeting and dangerous. We see this in Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, Tennyson’s In Memoriam, and […]
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Sandy Brahaspat wrote a new blog post Holding Their Oppressors Accountable: Pip and Catherine II in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 4 months agoOne of the connexions that I was particularly interested in was Pip’s condemnation of Miss Havisham’s duplicity and his hope that Estella will leave Drummle behind to Catherine II’s animosity and outrage conce […]
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Sandy Brahaspat edited the blog post Time Cannot Heal A Broken Heart: As Exemplified Through Heathcliff, Tennyson, and Miss Havisham in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 4 months agoThere’s a common saying that almost everyone hears at some point in their life and it goes like this: “Only time can heal a broken heart.” Based on the texts we have read so far, like Emily Bronte’s Wutheri […]
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Sandy Brahaspat commented on the post, Chapter 19, on the groupblog
Marginalia 3 years, 5 months agoGaging by this conversation, it seems as though Pip has picked up on quite a few of Estella’s mannerisms and begins to exude snobbery.*
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Sandy Brahaspat commented on the post, Chapter 19, on the groupblog
Marginalia 3 years, 5 months agoI am particularly struck by the “virtuous and superior tone,” that Pip uses in his conversation with Biddy and Joe in this chapter. Gaging by this conversation, it seems as though Pip has picked up on quite a few […]
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Sandy Brahaspat wrote a new blog post Thick Boots, Dirty Hands, and Mind-Forg’d Manacles in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 5 months ago“Proud, pretty, and insulting,” these are the traits that Pip assigns to his tormentor, Estella. Upon this first interaction, Pip is astutely aware of her condescension and describes feeling: “humiliated, hurt, […]
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Sandy Brahaspat wrote a new blog post Life After Death, as told by T.H Huxley and Emily Brontë in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 5 months agoIn his essay, “Agnosticism and Christianity,” T.H Huxley reiterates the distinction between the good spirits and bad spirits: “The chief of the good spirits, infinitely superior to all the others, and their creat […]
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Sandy Brahaspat commented on the post, Chapter 16, on the groupblog
Marginalia 3 years, 5 months agoTo clarify: In paragraph 16, Nelly is describing the fit Heathcliff falls into after learning of Catherine’s death.*
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