CUNY Academic Commons | Catherine Engh | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/catherinesara/activity/ Activity feed for Catherine Engh. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 685f5b5af22e504318d2d28f7481ce1a Catherine Engh's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/455975/ Mon, 20 Feb 2017 15:50:57 -0500 a008329faa7cb1616756cb0524978a4a Catherine Engh joined the group CUNY Romanticism Group https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/455974/ Mon, 20 Feb 2017 15:50:08 -0500 d66ea2be0c45b06872604054d3ff33fe Catherine Engh wrote a new post on the site English Student Association (ESA) http://gcenglish.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=637846 Sat, 31 Dec 2016 16:59:13 -0500 Below is a list of GC English Program students, faculty, and alumni who will be attending the 2017 MLA Conference in Philly, as well as a list of scholars from across CUNY. If you know of anyone who will be there […]

]]> d80d4d087825ce96ac4881011077eb5e Catherine Engh wrote a new post on the site Thinking in Pieces http://cenghblog.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=198 Sun, 04 Dec 2016 01:58:52 -0500 We must have belief and meaning, but language cannot necessarily explain itself on these matters. This way of thinking follows Wittgenstein’s decision that the Tractatus Logico-Philisophicus was a failure and h […]

]]> 2b167ceb11ee81f1fffe5142da698498 Catherine Engh wrote a new post on the site Thinking in Pieces http://cenghblog.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=183 Mon, 24 Oct 2016 21:06:46 -0400 I asked no other thing,

No other was denied.

I offered Being for it;

The mighty merchant smiled.

 

Brazil? He twirled a button

Without a glance my way:

But, madam, is there nothing […]

]]> 34387facb3c997b6fc203c4c5870ae41 Catherine Engh wrote a new post on the site Thinking in Pieces http://cenghblog.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=165 Mon, 17 Oct 2016 21:01:39 -0400 Wittgenstein writes, ““It’s as if we could grasp the whole use of a word at a stroke.” — Well, that is just what we say we do” (§191). Can the mind actually summon all of the uses to which a word might be put a […]

]]> ebb6471d31e498d447b48af841029ed4 Catherine Engh wrote a new post on the site English Student Association (ESA) http://gcenglish.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=470658 Thu, 22 Sep 2016 17:02:34 -0400 The Association for the study of Literature and the Environment is calling for papers for the upcoming 2017 conference in Detroit, Michigan on “Rust/Resistance: Works of Recovery.” Possible topics include: The […]

]]> 5cd428e5d73f7245f75315584e8f713d Catherine Engh wrote a new post on the site Thinking in Pieces http://cenghblog.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=145 Thu, 22 Sep 2016 15:32:14 -0400 In § 119 in the “Philisophical Investigations,” Wittegnstein writes,

“The results of philosophy are the discovery of some piece of plain nonsense and the bumps that the understanding has got by running up agai […]

]]> bbf71c4f6d027683af396888e1ac1e1d Catherine Engh's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/442942/ Thu, 22 Sep 2016 15:27:42 -0400 46048e7f115864751e8c070b8457e4d5 Catherine Engh's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/441342/ Sat, 10 Sep 2016 16:06:45 -0400 1ffe480bde014c379e5c37d50201b863 Catherine Engh wrote a new post on the site Thinking in Pieces http://cenghblog.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=135 Sun, 01 May 2016 17:06:31 -0400 In this post, I will turn to a Journal entry for Thursday 29th April 1802, a day in which Dorothy details two distinct impressions that she has lying in the fields around Dove cottage. I will focus only on the […]

]]> c70b4638daa21fbab79ac67d0083dc8c Catherine Engh's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/432686/ Mon, 25 Apr 2016 23:54:09 -0400 d503046ae0d6467f93b3fe48331f6d59 Catherine Engh wrote a new post on the site Thinking in Pieces http://cenghblog.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=126 Sun, 17 Apr 2016 19:36:13 -0400 A month ago, I wrote a blog post on the boy of Winander episode in book five of The Prelude. I’m not fully satisfied with my attempt at interpretation and want to use this blog post to return to that book. I am pa […]

]]> f65067a1c29a148018ac1cdea5f818f8 Catherine Engh wrote a new post on the site Thinking in Pieces http://cenghblog.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=117 Sun, 10 Apr 2016 23:46:39 -0400 In this response, I read Dorothy’s Grasmere Journal alongside a passage in William’s poem ‘Home at Grasmere.’ The aim is to highlight Dorothy’s and William’s parallel, if differently articulated, attempts t […]

]]> b2b2bbe5174540db63add35ba9e7cff0 Catherine Engh wrote a new post on the site Thinking in Pieces http://cenghblog.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=83 Tue, 29 Mar 2016 20:47:28 -0400 Having just read quickly through the first part of Book the tenth for the first time, I’m going to make this week’s response short. If I had to sum up the theme or subject of the first part of the book, I’d say s […]

]]> e65cfb44ea25768e070e6c8e7b3fb350 Catherine Engh commented on the post, On the Boy of Winander Episode in ‘The Prelude’, on the site Thinking in Pieces http://cenghblog.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/03/20/on-the-boy-of-winander-episode-in-the-prelude/#comment-18 Wed, 23 Mar 2016 03:23:33 -0400 ” mimetic behavior appears very early in human development of course, indeed is a motor of development. So while conceding the intimate relation between the boy’s activity and the poet’s I would myself see the lin […]

]]> dc02b972d488431d9ada909c457d8ce2 Catherine Engh wrote a new post on the site Thinking in Pieces http://cenghblog.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=67 Sun, 20 Mar 2016 02:00:22 -0400 The ‘Boy of Winander’ episode is situated in book the fifth of ‘The Prelude,’ amidst a meditation about the instructive value of a child’s early contact with Nature and imaginative literature. Introduci […]

]]> 9a85c8e92fc5d1f64af3f71e06ec5bcc Catherine Engh commented on the post, More on De Man's "Excuses" and The Confessions, on the site Thinking in Pieces http://cenghblog.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/02/23/more-on-de-mans-excuses-and-the-confessions/#comment-5 Fri, 04 Mar 2016 17:51:03 -0500 Thanks for this comment Josh. I hadn’t thought about the temporality in this way (as retrospection rather than anticipation), but you’re right. This clarifies the import here of a sustained good faith in the […]

]]> ae959eabf2b348aa612e5771c9854c58 Catherine Engh wrote a new post on the site Thinking in Pieces http://cenghblog.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=41 Thu, 03 Mar 2016 18:44:09 -0500 The verse paragraph where Wordsworth recounts taking out someone else’s boat in the First Book of The Prelude is lodged between passages that confidently lay out the manner in which a mind, or minds, grow in h […]

]]> 397a3b26971f9865bb620b832a9e5301 Catherine Engh wrote a new post on the site Thinking in Pieces http://cenghblog.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=26 Tue, 23 Feb 2016 21:58:25 -0500 Last week, I suggested that Rousseau’s reader is in a position to understand the workings of his desire in a way that the other people within his narrative cannot. This week, I want to continue thinking about th […]

]]> 54eb2b2144999a42e6c4cd7f87889597 Catherine Engh changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/426787/ Mon, 15 Feb 2016 21:51:52 -0500 b0b05144969c5d5e0d60c04da577721c Catherine Engh's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/426786/ Mon, 15 Feb 2016 21:47:48 -0500 bf0de84d9a28c38ef4d27bc1dd293401 Catherine Engh and Selina Lim are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/410150/ Mon, 31 Aug 2015 18:51:23 -0400 11bba80c7640c5c9eb42b81fc1b10660 Catherine Engh's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/410115/ Mon, 31 Aug 2015 17:10:14 -0400 718dfa823ae170824bde507e658ca6c2 Catherine Engh joined the group The Group for Group Admins https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/409432/ Tue, 25 Aug 2015 01:41:45 -0400 86aee993aa72df1f18a32a7eef1cf5a9 Catherine Engh's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/343207/ Tue, 07 Apr 2015 22:56:09 -0400 cfb65aaebc9c6a19858385bf3742da0f Catherine Engh commented on the post, Thoughts on the Imperial University, on the site Intro to Doctoral Studies in English Fall 2014 http://gcenglishf14.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2014/12/15/thoughts-on-the-imperial-university/comment-page-1/#comment-68 Tue, 16 Dec 2014 02:59:19 -0500 Hi Chelsea

The questions you raise re: difficult language and postcolonial theory really resonate with me, though in the context of Coleridge studies. Writing on Coleridge, I’ve been struggling–and […]

]]> 4eb91a8ffbebfd36a908a037d6050c6a Catherine Engh commented on the post, Private Vs. Public Space and the Book , on the site Intro to Doctoral Studies in English Fall 2014 http://gcenglishf14.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2014/12/08/private-vs-public-space-and-the-book/comment-page-1/#comment-62 Mon, 08 Dec 2014 20:44:30 -0500 Ah! Sorry I spelled your name wrong Austin!

]]> a1e59027e5419039a1658ca756d03910 Catherine Engh commented on the post, Private Vs. Public Space and the Book , on the site Intro to Doctoral Studies in English Fall 2014 http://gcenglishf14.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2014/12/08/private-vs-public-space-and-the-book/comment-page-1/#comment-61 Mon, 08 Dec 2014 20:36:22 -0500 Hi Austen.
It does seem like the space of the page, in the example of the Felicia Hemans book of poems for instance, exists somewhere between the private and public spheres. My first instinct is to think of […]

]]> bf8e6886103c687263a0400bb6c92bed Catherine Engh commented on the post, the material obsolescence of digital forms, on the site Intro to Doctoral Studies in English Fall 2014 http://gcenglishf14.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2014/11/17/the-material-obsolescence-of-digital-forms/comment-page-1/#comment-49 Mon, 17 Nov 2014 21:06:11 -0500 That’s a really good question. I sort of assumed that the timing of the scroll was intentional and chosen by Gibson, but I don’t know! The slowness does seem to emphasize the poem’s elegiac tone.

]]> 455012bc7e35876e0c24bf41113f5a35 Catherine Engh commented on the post, Brief Thoughts on Planned Obsolescence, on the site Intro to Doctoral Studies in English Fall 2014 http://gcenglishf14.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2014/11/09/brief-thoughts-on-planned-obsolescence/comment-page-1/#comment-46 Mon, 10 Nov 2014 21:35:38 -0500 Christina and Elissa, I agree with you that some of Fitzpatrick’s suggestions re: academic publishing don’t seem feasible given the constraints of the marketplace.

I find her vision of peer-to-peer review […]

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