Category Archives: Final Project

The purpose of this timeline is to show a running historical context of the Harlem Renaissance. The timeline itself spans from 1890 to 1935. I decided to include events long before the Harlem Renaissance. This was because as Cary D. … Continue reading →

I’ve been up all night for weeks.  Now it is time to “lift up your heads!” as Marinetti’s Futurist Manifesto proclaims.  I have read books and articles and poems and ogled at art, and now I present to you my … Continue reading →

For my final, final project I would like to trace Robinson Jeffers’s place within the literary canon by analyzing the book reviews and criticisms contemporary with his work along with the recent reviews of scholars who attribute the poet with … Continue reading →

Amiri Baraka was a way in. There’s something to be said also for the Beat poets. There was this one passage in Invisible Man about smoking marijuana and listening to Louis Armstrong and how the blues is both a riot … Continue reading →

DH Final Project Proposal Original Proposal: Because I am a Sociology Minor currently enrolled in Criminology, I thought it would be interesting to combine the two disciplines in exploration of how Modern Poetry treats crime and its understanding of criminality. … Continue reading →

For my revised final project, my concept stands the same. I will start off with research and then address the works individually. I have already started my blog as well as an introductory paragraph here.  I am starting with William Butler … Continue reading →

For my revised project proposal, I plan to make an in depth timeline of Harlem Renaissance poetry and art forms. I still plan to include on this timeline the historical context of the movement. I will do through highlighting many … Continue reading →

For my final project, I chose to focus on the philosophies of Robinson Jeffers and the limitations of modernism that have carried over into our postmodern society in relation to ecocriticism. I believe that modernist poets, while appearing to be … Continue reading →

For my DH final project I plan on analyzing Alfred Stieglitz photographic journal titled Camera Work, which was published from 1903-1917. In my analysis I want to find some way to compare the evolving art of photography, as Stieglitz saw … Continue reading →

After some further thought and organization, I have come to the realization that a research paper would be best suited for my endeavors with imagist poet Amy Lowell. In this essay, I aim to give a detailed timeline of Lowell’s … Continue reading →