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Francesco Bruno wrote a new blog post You “Need” To Read This in the group American Studies: 9 years, 4 months ago

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 […]
Francesco Bruno wrote a new blog post King Lear, Rap Music and Talking to Ghosts in the group American Studies: 9 years, 6 months ago

“…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 […]
Francesco Bruno wrote a new blog post Meaninglessness; Inside and Out in the group American Studies: 9 years, 7 months ago

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 […]
Francesco Bruno wrote a new blog post Choice and the Number Eight in the group American Studies: 9 years, 8 months ago

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 […]
Francesco Bruno edited the blog post Just Make It Go Away in the group American Studies: 9 years, 9 months ago

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]
Francesco Bruno wrote a new blog post The Yonic and the Phallic in the group American Studies: 9 years, 10 months ago

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 […]
Francesco Bruno edited the blog post “Expectations” for Morrison’s Novel “Jazz” in the group American Studies: 9 years, 11 months ago

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]
Francesco Bruno edited the blog post The Name Game in the group American Studies: 9 years, 11 months ago

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]
Francesco Bruno edited the blog post “It is always now” in the group American Studies: 9 years, 11 months ago

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]
Francesco Bruno wrote a new blog post Semiotics and Visual Literacy in the group American Studies: 10 years ago

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 […]

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