Group Two will present on Thursday, 2/12.
The project preperation is due on Thursday, 1/29.
The final project is due on Tuesday, 2/24.
| Project 1: |
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| Purpose: | Project one is designed to challenge conventional reading of texts. Just as Newton constructed his cosmology--his reading of the universe--on the supposition of absolute space and time, readers search in the text for a single underlying objective field from which they can perceive only subjective fragments. In contrast to a "Newtonian narrative" and following the model of Gauss in mathematics, Einstein in cosmology, and Meinong in phenomonology, students will examine texts as constructions of multiple perspectival fields without recourse to an underlying objective truth. |
| Part One: | In a written essay, summarize, analyze, and
interpret the construction of space and/or time in the two literary texts
studied in this unit. Use theoretical texts to help explain the constructions
of space and/or time. What similarities in space and/or time can
you find in these literary texts? Contrast your reading of these
space-times with the temptation to read for an underlying objective field;
how does the text provide lures toward a Newtonian narrative and how have
you escaped these lures?
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| Part Two: | Using one of the literary texts, reconstruct moments of the narrative using the variety of spatial possibilities and image/text relations of hypertext. Further elaborate your hypertext edition of the poem or novel with links to and from theoretical texts and your own interpretations. Part two is to be linked from off of your homepage. |
| Schedule: | Group One will present to the class on Thursday, 1/29.
Group Two will present on Thursday, 2/12. The project preperation is due on Thursday, 1/29. The final project is due on Tuesday, 2/24. |
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