English @ SUNY Geneseo | Sarah Pray | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/sap9/activity/ Activity feed for Sarah Pray. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 f1d161107edfc309d92aa1f3f9a56719 Sarah Pray wrote a new blog post Women, Men, and the Kitchen in Morrison's Paradise. in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7663/ Fri, 02 Dec 2016 04:06:36 -0500 Now that I’ve begun re-circling through Morrison’s Paradise to search for connections to Dante, I’ve encountered certain through-lines that I hadn’t noticed in my first reading. One of the most significant is t […]

]]> 0 56eb561e99300b04e3ad8fd725096430 Sarah Pray edited the blog post Violet's Parrot in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7437/ Tue, 18 Oct 2016 15:46:43 -0500 In my reading of Jazz up until the requirements for today’s class, I have been trying to unpack a reoccurring instance that has caught my attention, Violet’s Parrot. I began with a rather obvious initial question– Why a parrot? In an attempt to better understand Morrison’s intent in including the bird in the text, I began my search with a reading…[Read more]

]]> 0 b06a5ea9b6da710e71984717a1625c7b Sarah Pray wrote a new blog post Infant Death and Haunting in "A Mercy" and "Beloved" in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7238/ Tue, 20 Sep 2016 06:23:46 -0500 As we make the leap from Morrison’s A Mercy to Beloved this week, I can’t help but ask myself one question:

Why so many infant deaths?

In A Mercy, we learn of the numerous untimely passing of Rebekka’ […]

]]> 0 1957cab2e50d4e51a8ca7cbb994c2914 Sarah Pray wrote a new blog post A Terrible Transformation, Africans in America in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7055/ Tue, 06 Sep 2016 22:56:18 -0500 This semester, I will be conducting a directed study with Maria Lima on British Black Short Stories. I look forward to the connections and interesting perspectives that reading Toni Morrison’s novels alongside t […]

]]> 0 35d314f09d0f3df1b76ccc98b3ec74c2 Sarah Pray joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7030/ Mon, 05 Sep 2016 19:59:46 -0500 0 172f79bd1284af2b9a5b842853e56aba Sarah Pray wrote a new post on the site Medieval Studies http://medieval.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=196 Mon, 27 Apr 2015 22:04:08 -0500 With the popular HBO series Game of Thrones recently kicking off the release of it’s fourth season, a spark of interest in medieval history has been lit into our modern day media culture. At the root of this […]

]]> 39304aee9ae6958815ad91503f76c04f Sarah Pray started the topic "Game of Thrones"– a Medieval Literature Reading in the forum Medieval Studies http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/medieval-studies/forum/topic/game-of-thrones-a-medieval-literature-reading/ Mon, 27 Apr 2015 21:58:07 -0500 With the popular HBO series Game of Thrones recently kicking off the release of it’s fourth season, a spark of interest in medieval history has been lit into our modern day media culture. At the root of this rebirth, can be seen many connections to stories, themes, and motifs often found in Medieval Literature.

PBS.org recently published an a…[Read more]

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