Jessica ShealyLove in a Conditional WorldGeorge Saunders has described the question at the core of this book as, “How do we continue to love in a world in which the objects of our…2 min read·Apr 26, 2021----
Jessica ShealyThe BardoWhat is the bardo, and how does it function in George Saunders’s book? In what way does the bardo apply to those who are living as well as…2 min read·Apr 26, 2021----
Jessica ShealyThe History of LoveWhy might Krauss have given her novel the title The History of Love, the same as that of the fictional book around which her narrative…2 min read·Apr 24, 2021----
Jessica ShealyWhy an English Major?You may often be asked why you are studying (majoring or minoring) or even why you’re taking courses in English. As we are approaching the…3 min read·Apr 23, 2021----
Jessica Shealy(Fear to) Choose Your Own AdventureRead and Respond (however you would like) to “The Perils of Choose Your Own Adventure Books.”4 min read·Apr 22, 2021----
Jessica ShealyFranchise HypertextualityHaas mentions that a wampum is “a hybridization of the oral tradition and symbolism is woven into the material rhetoric.” Where else do we…3 min read·Mar 16, 2021----
Jessica ShealyThe Great Gatsby: The Alternative TitlesThe Great Gatsby’s title was not Fitzgerald’s choice and never his favorite. How would the book’s reception be changed if it were instead…3 min read·Mar 8, 2021--1--1
Jessica ShealyThe Great Gatsby: The Graphic NovelFour chapters in, just shy of the halfway point — finally, a fair bit behind schedule — and I am rather enjoying the experience of reading…3 min read·Mar 6, 2021----
Jessica ShealyNick and I in The Great GatsbyWhat is your familiarity with The Great Gatsby? Have you read it before? More than once? At different times in your life? What adaptations…4 min read·Feb 20, 2021----
Jessica ShealyPicturing Myself, or Trying to AnywayA reflection on Italo Calvino’s If on a winter’s night a traveler.4 min read·Feb 14, 2021----