Repeating history/Dramatic Irony of Alice Childress
A great pleasure in reading The Wedding Band by Alice Childress is it’s use of dramatic irony, the foreshadowing and conscious effort placed in scenes to reference what would have already been experienced by the audience and will be by the characters. My journey through this irony began with Childress’s reference to the flu pandemic […]
Interpretations of Charleston, Spring 2022
Welcome to this blog! Authors are students in the College of Charleston course “Charleston Writers” taught in Spring 2022 as ENGL 360/AAST 300. Like the authors on our syllabus, we’re all writing about Charleston and responding to other writers’ interpretations of our city and region. On the top menu bar you can see the three […]