Emma Jo

My thesis statement addresses Acheson's questions by addressing the topic, posing a question, and describing the various avenues I will...

What is “suppressed” in the text should be analyzed as well. What is said, but also what is not said, is important. EX: In S-Town, a gap...

One of the terms today is background. This is what appears in the text, however it is "remote" and "inconspicuous". It is also considered...

A term from Pope that applies to episode 3 is marginalization, because he puts certain demographics in the "margins" of the story. He...

The term "decentring" is an interesting concept. By shifting focus to what is a marginalized part of the text, and analyzing those...

Episode 2 The focus has shifted now away from S-Town itself and more on John. I definitely started to feel more connected to the...

Pope discusses the contemporary approach to gender and the feminist theory. I think a lot about how my gender effects people's...

If I was a “new critic” I would focus on the way John uses the dialogue in a patterned way to create a pattern that evokes certain...

S-Town podcast uses a pattern with the dialogue to narration ratio and structure. There is an interesting contrast between the accent and...