So I start reading House of Leaves last night, and I immediately start to feel the fear. However, I did not feel fear of the unexplainable or of a haunted house. I close the book the moment I read the first chapter’s opening paragraph because I know what I need … Continue reading → Read more →
Digital Humanities is About Building AND Sharing
Sample’s analysis of what digitals humanities is actually about was energizing and inspiring to read. His call to push the boundaries of how people share knowledge made me excited about the prospects that people in my generation and beyond have to look forward to. I can’t help but think back to a philosophy of science class I…
Emotion: The Language of Authenticity
I planned on beginning to read House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski last night. However, I did not know what the book was about, and many reviews gave me the impression that it was a horror story. I decided that it would be best to read the book not in the darkness, but in… Read more » Read more →
Voyant Assignment: Deconstructing Duffy’s Diction
Using the Voyant tool collocate clusters, we found several interesting things. Collocate clusters basically takes key search words and accordingly locates surrounding words based on. Out of all our different searches the following was the most fruitful. We looked up words surrounding masculine and feminine pronouns. There was much polarization in the two collections as […] Read more →
Voyant: Word Trend Differences
Word Trend Differences: The Word Trend Differences tool in Voyant allows us to compare two texts to compare word usage between the two through z-scores. Using the tool in Voyant… Read more →
Exploring Duffy’s Poetry Through Voyant: Bubblelines group
Through using Bubblelines, we noticed a variety of interesting patterns while analyzing Selling Manhattan and The World’s Wife. One of the first things we noticed is that the word “he” appears more than the word “she” in The World’s Wife,… Continue Reading → Read more →
Distant Reading Duffy: Group 2
Group members: Nancy, Abby, Justine, Brandon, and Elyssa In our group, using the tool of Microsearch, we noticed several trends throughout the writing of Carol Ann Duffy in her books Selling Manhattan and The World’s Wife. When closely reading, language stands out as a recurring theme in Duffy’s Selling Manhattan but seems hardly as prevalent in The World’s Wife. … Continue reading Distant Reading Duffy: Group 2 Read more →
Dies Natalis in MARBL
“Dies Natalis” was by far my absolute favorite poem in Selling Manhattan. The poem’s general themes parallel with many others in the book, but the form and narration of “Dies Natalis” are different from anything I’ve ever read before. The poem followed a simple dramatic monologue form and Duffy chooses four unique, but surprisingly similar characters to narrate each segment […] Read more →
Duffy’s Mrs Sisyphus and drafts from MARBL
In “Mrs Sisyphus” in The World’s Wife, Duffy continues to relieve oppressed female voices by writing from the female perspective of famous men. The context of the poem derives from Greek mythology, in which Sisyphus, the King of Ephyra was punished for chronic deceitfulness. In order to pay for his wrongdoings, he was compelled to repeatedly roll an immense boulder… Read more →
Marbl Research: “Thetis”
In Greek mythology, Thetis was told to marry Zeus so that she could give birth to Achilles—the great hero of Greece. A nymph herself, Thetis was able to transform into many different shapes. Though her story often takes a backseat to Achilles’s in Greek mythology, in some more ancient myths, she holds a more powerful place. One hymn even identifies… Read more →