Project 1:
Person, Place, and Thing
Texts:
"Tintern Abbey"--Wordsworth
Frankenstein--Mary Shelley
"Kubla Khan"--Coleridge
"Visions of the Daughters of Albion"--Blake

Purpose: For this assignment, students will produce a hypertext project in two parts exploring the often mysterious relationship between person, place, and thing in Romantic texts. We are intereseted particularly in having students consider the construction of identity and the representation of space it entails within Romantic narratives.

Part One:

 In the first part of the assignment (approximately 700 words), you will answer the following questions about two of the texts we have discussed in class:

Which forces (i.e. origins, environments, settings, relationships) in each of these texts contribute to the stabilization of a character's identity and which lead to a destabilization of that character's identity? Based on your analysis, what common themes do these texts share?

Your analysis should be written in essay form, and should involve a close reading of the texts (i.e., support what you say with textual evidence).

Part Two:

 In the second part of this assignment, You will explore an alternative narrative possibility that has been repressed by the text, releasing this element from the textual unconscious.

Drawing from one of the texts you analyzed in the first part of your project, you will either write a new scene (one that is "missing" from the text) or reimagine an existing scene that would radically change the outcome of the narrative by further stabilizing or destabilizing a character's identity. You should attempt to write in the style of the author with whom you choose to work.

Finally, your project should be in the form of a hypertext document to be published on the Web. You should use images relevant to your project, and place links to move the reader between the different screens of your project.

Examples: