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Spencer Iovoli wrote a new blog post The Ramblings of an Elephant Critic in the group The Contemporary Poem: 6 years, 11 months ago

There was an experiment done in which art critics were tested in deducing whether a series of abstract paintings were made by experienced artists or by elephants with paint brushes. They were able to correctly […]
Spencer Iovoli edited the blog post The Continued Conversation on Caliban and The Tempest in the group American Studies: 8 years, 4 months ago

Noah had a very quick, and admittedly legitimate, criticism to my previous post regarding some of my interpretations of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest. There are some claims that I won’t be able to defend, suc […]
Spencer Iovoli edited the blog post Unpacking Caliban in the group American Studies: 8 years, 4 months ago

William Shakespeare did not write his characters as inherently “good” or “evil.” Rather, they would come in various shades of gray. Shakespeare understood the human condition, that every person has flaws and […]
Spencer Iovoli edited the blog post An Overdue Clarification in the group American Studies: 8 years, 4 months ago

I don’t mean to tread on old ground, but my performance as a blogger demands that I resurface certain memories: In my “violence is the performance of waste” essay, I had carefully attempted to deconstruct Roach’s interpretations of each of the key words in the phrase. He had defined waste as “unproductive expenditure” (40), and claimed that…[Read more]
Spencer Iovoli wrote a new blog post Remembering the (Un)Dead in the group American Studies: 8 years, 4 months ago

The classical depiction of the “living dead” in old stories was fairly literal: The long-deceased, through necromancy, witchcraft, or some other form of magic, would rise once more to roam the earth in a […]
Spencer Iovoli edited the blog post The “Before’s” and “After’s” in the group American Studies: 8 years, 4 months ago

A major theme in Colson Whitehead’s novel Zone One, along with just about every other piece of literature or cinema in a post-apocalyptic setting (zombies or otherwise) is the evaluation of how much the world can change with a single event. In Zone One, the survivors labelled the first day of the zombie outbreak as the “Last Night,” stating that “…[Read more]
Spencer Iovoli wrote a new blog post The Conundrum of Color-Blindness in the group American Studies: 8 years, 5 months ago

When Kathryn Miles wrote about the tragedy of the Moore family in her book Superstorm, she provided several details for the context of their story: Damien and Glenda Moore and their two sons were beloved in their […]
Spencer Iovoli wrote a new blog post Secondhand Memories, Framed and Forgotten in the group American Studies: 8 years, 5 months ago

They say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
There are several portraits in my home of my great-grandparents and […]
Spencer Iovoli wrote a new blog post The Paradox of Disaster Movies in the group American Studies: 8 years, 6 months ago

I’ve seen The Day After Tomorrow more times than I’d like to admit. At least four separate occasions, possibly five. After the third viewing, it sort of blends together into blurry mess, and my impressions of the […]

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