By Jordan Witham Chapter I: Divulgence The green chapel stands broken but lush. Crumbled walls and cracked stone, all covered in thick green vines and flowers. The yellow sunlight barely illuminates the chapel as Gawain stands kneeling before the Green Knight. “Is this really all there is?” Gawain asks the knight, fear evident in hisContinue reading “Alternate Ending of The Green Knight”
Category Archives: Projects Fall 2023
Extended Ending of The Dew Breaker
By Jordan Witham Ka drags her draw knife down the side of a large, rectangular piece of basswood. Chips fall around her feet like rain. A half-smoked cigarette sits on the edge of a cup halfway filled with ash. Smoke lazily drifts up from its dimly glowing end. Come on Ka, just let your mindContinue reading “Extended Ending of The Dew Breaker”
A Visual Of Character Relations in Danticat’s ‘The Dew Breaker’
For my project, I decided to undergo the creation of a chart to visualize the connections between every major character of The Dew Breaker. To do this, I first went through every chapter and made a list of every character, loosely grouped by chapter, which looked something like this: Obviously, not all of these charactersContinue reading “A Visual Of Character Relations in Danticat’s ‘The Dew Breaker’”
Project One
Alexina Gillis Currents in Global Literature Nic Helms “The Dew Breaker” Movie Proposal/Pitch Title: The title for the movie would remain the same; “The Dew Breaker” Characters: The characters would have everyone in the first chapter of the story; Ka, her father Papa, her mother Anne, and someone “famous” to buy Ka’s art. Log-line: AContinue reading “Project One”
Ecocriticism, global literature, and the postcolonial landscape.
Annotated Bibliography Bennett, Michael. “Anti-Pastoralism, Frederick Douglass, and the Nature of Slavery,” Beyond Nature Writing: expanding the boundaries of ecocriticism, edited by Karla Armbruster and Kathleen R Wallace, Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 2001. https://search-ebscohost-com.libproxy.plymouth.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mzh&AN=2001130092&site=ehost-live&authtype=sso&custid=plymouth Armbruster, Karla and Kathleen R Wallace. Beyond Nature Writing: expanding the boundaries of ecocriticism. Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 2001.Continue reading “Ecocriticism, global literature, and the postcolonial landscape.”
The Framing of Female Power in Medieval and Renaissance Literature
Jade Tulk Professor Helms EN 3425: Rethinking Medieval and Renaissance Literature October 19, 2023 The Framing of Female Power in Medieval and Renaissance Literature In the Medieval and Renaissance period, women in England were largely prohibited from accessing any of the positions of power available to men. Aside from being seen as inherently lesser asContinue reading “The Framing of Female Power in Medieval and Renaissance Literature”
Franny Choi, Art, and Apocalyptic Writing
For my Unessay, I read “The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On” by Franny Choi. As a response to this, I decided to depict my understanding in a drawing. I drew a picture of a girl, headphones on, coffee in hand, listening to loud music, and not hearing the apocalypse going on aroundContinue reading “Franny Choi, Art, and Apocalyptic Writing”
Gawain The Hanged Man
My project is an art piece based on Gawain and The Green Knight as The Hanged Man. Gawain is made of Bristol board and acrylic paint, cut out and glued to a water marbled green page. The other elements are also Bristol board and acrylic paint. It is an armored knight with brown hair hangingContinue reading “Gawain The Hanged Man”
Hope in The Dew Breaker and The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
Jamie DaSilva Professor Nicholas Helms Currents in Global Literature 20 October, 2023 After reading The Dew Breaker and The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African I became fascinated by the way each book portrays the theme of hope. Both novels describe the hardships people of color have facedContinue reading “Hope in The Dew Breaker and The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano”
Heroism in Lanval and Beowulf
Jamie DaSilva Professor Nicholas Helms Rethinking Medieval and Renaissance Literature 20 October, 2023 After reading Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley and Lanval by Marie De France I became interested in the theme of heroism that is shown throughout both texts. Both Lanval and Beowulf are knights that do everything for a singleContinue reading “Heroism in Lanval and Beowulf”
Sprockets and Springes 