http://blogs.setonhill.edu/DianaGeleskie/ The world in quotation marks. en-us 2007-11-26T10:59:10-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/DianaGeleskie/022375.html "I'm the one who gets the raspberries!" Susan Alexander Kane (Dorothy Comingore), Citizen Kane... Diana Geleskie 2007-11-26T10:59:10-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/DianaGeleskie/022321.html "When can I go to the supermarket and buy what I need with my good looks?" Allen Ginsberg, "America," Howl and Other Poems... Diana Geleskie 2007-11-19T22:13:49-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/DianaGeleskie/022258.html "Humor in the ghettos and camps was a psychological response to danger and oppression; it functioned as both a coping mechanism and a means of resistance. As a literary device it has lent credibility to witness literature and functioned aesthetically... EL237 Diana Geleskie 2007-11-15T12:09:53-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/DianaGeleskie/022257.html "The historian's task is complex and demanding: a single word does not explain a man's life, nor does a newspaper headline, a radio report or a densely composed film frame. All are sources which must be treated with the utmost... EL237 Diana Geleskie 2007-11-15T11:54:16-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/DianaGeleskie/022255.html "The truth is that many people everywhere are interested in almost everything." Steve Wasserman, "Goodbye to All That"... EL237 Diana Geleskie 2007-11-15T10:33:10-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/DianaGeleskie/022162.html Art Spiegelman, Maus I: My Father Bleeds History... EL237 Diana Geleskie 2007-11-05T21:25:06-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/DianaGeleskie/022158.html "Maus compels us to bear witness in a different way: the very artificiality of its surface makes it possible to imagine the reality beneath." Newsweek, Review of Art Spiegelman's Maus... EL237 Diana Geleskie 2007-11-05T11:00:13-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/DianaGeleskie/022095.html "Even Antoinette's nostalgic fantasies of community and place seem to guarantee her progression toward Thornfield Hall and madness - a progression toward becoming Bertha Mason." John J. Su "'Once I Would Have Gone Back . . . But Not Any... EL237 Diana Geleskie 2007-11-01T10:33:28-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/DianaGeleskie/022094.html "As long as Antoinette can remember and order the events of her memories into a temporal or causal sequence, create even an illusion of sequence and maintain a measured space and time, then she can hold her life and self... EL237 Diana Geleskie 2007-11-01T10:01:45-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/DianaGeleskie/022064.html "The absence of a narrative of causality is precisely what prevents Edward from identifying with her tales and from believing - or even wanting to hear - her side of her mother's story." Carine Melkom Mardorossian, "Double (De)Colonization and the... EL237 Diana Geleskie 2007-10-30T12:04:54-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/DianaGeleskie/022063.html "Antoinette possesses two doubles in Christophine and Tia, and Rochester finds his own doubles in Daniel Cosway and Sandi." Robert Kendrick, "Edward Rochester and the Margins of Masculinity in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea"... EL237 Diana Geleskie 2007-10-30T11:54:34-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/DianaGeleskie/021921.html "Soon we were back in the shifting shadows outside, more beautiful than any perpetual light could be, and soon I learnt to gabble without thinking as the others did. About changing now and the hour of our death for that... EL237 Diana Geleskie 2007-10-20T20:01:30-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/DianaGeleskie/021872.html "Summer approached; Diana tried to cheer me: she said I looked ill, and wished to accompany me to the sea-side. This St John opposed; he said I did not want dissipation, I wanted employment; my present life was too purposeless,... EL237 Diana Geleskie 2007-10-17T11:06:39-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/DianaGeleskie/021582.html "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'" Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)... EL237 Diana Geleskie 2007-10-11T13:00:01-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/DianaGeleskie/021786.html "'Give me back nine pounds, Jane; I've a use for it.' 'And so have I, sir,' I returned, putting my hands and my purse behind me. 'I could not spare the money on any account.' 'Little niggard!' said he, 'refusing... EL237 Diana Geleskie 2007-10-11T11:15:32-05:00