| Project
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Mind and Will
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Texts:
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Literary: Kubla
Khan, Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Childe Roland, Rocking-horse Winner,
Nutting, In Memoriam, Digging, The Forge, Punishment, Araby, Heart of
Darkness
Theorectical:
On Dreams, Ego and Id, Geneology of Morals |
| Purpose: |
Texts are fraught with repressions, eruptions,
discontinuities, condensations, and displacements that elide representation
by the rational mind. This project uses the structural model of the mind
as presented in psychoanalysis to expose and interpret layers of texts.
Analysis of these layers by Freud and Nietzsche has led to the shift from
the humanist individual to the post-modern subject. |
| Part One: |
Using the tools provided by Nietzsche and Freud, write
an essay that examines psychological and/or social conflicts played out
by two of the literary texts. Choose one of the following or combine
them in your interpretation of a literary texts:
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Drawing primarily from the works of Freud, explain how
rhetorical strategies such as metaphor and/or metonymy work as figures
for repressions, eruptions, discontinuities, condensations, and displacements
in the texts.
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In light of Genealogy of Morals, how is the traditional
structure of self, society, and morality upheld or undermined in the text?
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Examine how social and psychological forces combine to
structure the subjectivity of the characters. How do mental internalization
and projections of culture's moral values effect the character and the
narrative?
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| Part Two: |
Manifest in hypertext both the original text's
attempt to cover over undesirable possibilities and in the style of the
author write creative additions to the text which unleash these forces.
Given that there is always an-other voice haunting the text, write a "ghost
chapter(s)" to the text; construct a hypertext that creates a manifestation
of one or several latent possibilities in a particular text. Be sure
to include intelligent links and images to enhance the effectiveness of
your construction. Part two is to be linked from off of your homepage. |
| Schedule: |
Group Three will present to the class on Tuesday,
3/3.
Group Four will present on Tuesday, 3/24.
The project preperations are due on 3/3 and 3/24.
The final project is due on Thursday, 4/2. |
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