English @ SUNY Geneseo | Francesco Bruno | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/streetlighter8/activity/ Activity feed for Francesco Bruno. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 4097d4f09554635a11dc76bae0cc87e6 Francesco Bruno wrote a new blog post You "Need" To Read This in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8223/ Sat, 15 Apr 2017 18:18:28 -0500 While I would like this blog post to be able to clarify some of my ramblings from yesterday’s class, I can tell you right now that it is not going to. However, instead of using this space to fall into l […]

]]> 0 cffd80b568ee1bfcb00733c5b3481fb5 Francesco Bruno wrote a new blog post King Lear, Rap Music and Talking to Ghosts in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7932/ Sat, 11 Feb 2017 20:24:15 -0500 “…by the sacred radiance of the sun, the [mysteries] of Hecate and the night…From whom we do exist and cease to be, Here I disclaim all my paternal care…”

The above quote is spoken by King Lear in the first Sce […]

]]> 0 8a53bc4a7e919a1d33d9691b285dd12b Francesco Bruno wrote a new blog post Meaninglessness; Inside and Out in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7894/ Mon, 06 Feb 2017 19:32:18 -0500 Insecurity, invagination, in and out of doors, outdoors, property, maps; we have already discussed many topics in a short amount of class time. So many topics that it has already become both easy to find something […]

]]> 0 d27fd9e93f3818c94e7f0a22b3916a44 Francesco Bruno wrote a new blog post Choice and the Number Eight in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7704/ Mon, 12 Dec 2016 22:09:22 -0500 In A Mercy, Jacob Vaark wants to build his house on a hill. The dream of a house on a hill is similar to the dream of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and John Winthrop’s idea of a City Upon A Hill (1630). I bring t […]

]]> 0 1e59a8c628b4f08685f194778a2e3c90 Francesco Bruno edited the blog post Just Make It Go Away in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7610/ Mon, 14 Nov 2016 15:37:11 -0500 Here is something that should be acknowledged; we made national news. A swastika was painted on a dorm hall with the word “Trump.” Look, Time mentions us.

These kind of acts have increased since the election and they have been met with social outrage. I’ll come back to this.

Something that struck me while reading Dante’s Paradiso was the foc…[Read more]

]]> 0 212a4fca040411af1bc6703b1a300cdf Francesco Bruno wrote a new blog post The Yonic and the Phallic in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7516/ Wed, 02 Nov 2016 08:03:07 -0500 Thanks to the texts I’m reading this semester—specifically Pynchon and Yeats—I’ve had to pay more attention to phallic imagery than ever before. I started to pick up on some of this imagery in Toni Morrison […]

]]> 0 9b98ee63dac81e0f7d85acb331248571 Francesco Bruno edited the blog post "Expectations" for Morrison's Novel "Jazz" in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7391/ Tue, 11 Oct 2016 21:56:20 -0500 Okay, I wanted to make a post before I started reading Jazz. It has taken slightly longer to write than I thought it would and most of that time was spent on making it coherent. I want to try and talk about “expectations” for Toni Morrison’s novel. I put the word “expectations” into scare quotes because I want to make it clear that I am referring…[Read more]

]]> 0 f99db52122b8095ec4bcbc835eaa054e Francesco Bruno edited the blog post The Name Game in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7229/ Mon, 19 Sep 2016 02:24:57 -0500 Names in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy play an interesting role. We have already discussed in class and on the blog the name Patrician, the absence of a name for the Blacksmith, and the name Messalina/Lina. I’ve grown to enjoy finding etymologies for words, and if an author pays attention to names, as Morrison clearly does, then looking for meanings beh…[Read more]

]]> 0 58c7efb7405280b83765022defdf2897 Francesco Bruno edited the blog post "It is always now" in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7225/ Fri, 16 Sep 2016 23:16:08 -0500 Emily’s blog post noted a quote from Africans in America: America’s Journey Through Slavery. The quote, “Slavery is Indeed an American institution” is something that I haven’t stopped turning over in my head. At first the statement may seem a little shortsighted when you realize that other European countries, including Britain, had been partici…[Read more]

]]> 0 24ca1cb75518f7c3170fe3994795f878 Francesco Bruno wrote a new blog post Semiotics and Visual Literacy in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6898/ Wed, 31 Aug 2016 04:14:23 -0500 Semiotics. A subject that I am not very well read in but am trying to learn more about in my spare time. Why do I bring it up? Because I found it useful to think about in our first reading of Morrison’s A Mercy, a […]

]]> 0 c36797315a3682faf43ce07637579c6b Francesco Bruno joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6892/ Wed, 31 Aug 2016 02:40:33 -0500 0 465e84f52c237b9baef2bf93dd7dcf76 Francesco Bruno became a registered member https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/3168/ Sat, 04 Oct 2014 17:46:29 -0500 0