Hyptertexts
Johnson-Eilola (1997): Nostalgic Angels
Nostalgic Angels: Rearticulating Hypertext Writing by Johndan Johnson-Eilola My rating: 5 of 5 stars While the examples Johnson-Eilola uses in Nostalgic Angels to discuss hypertext are dated (e.g., the 1990s program HyperCard), his arguments seem to be just as salient today. Throughout the book, Johnson-Eilola complicates notions of hypertext, especial those claims that hypertext are [...]
sefer and the text
From Robert Alter’s “To the Reader” for his translation of Genesis: The biblical conception of a book was clearly far more open-ended than any notion current in our own culture, with it assumptions of known authorship and legal copyright. The very different is the technology of bookmaking is emblematic. For us, a book is a [...]
Our thesis writing group…
My fellow MA students Sarah G, Marieke, Michelle, and Sarah B and I are meeting once a week to go over each other’s writing and to motivate each other for our theses (or writing sample, in SG’s case). This is really exciting for me, and I’m looking forward to the good feedack and conversations we’ll [...]
wells on encyclopedic organization
The Wells quotes are stolen from Mark Bernstein‘s post Encyclopedia 2: From H. G. Wells’ lecture on Brain Organization of the Modern World, October and November 1937. “This Encyclopedia organization need not be concentrated now in one place; it might have the form of a network. It would centralize mentally but perhaps not physically. Quite [...]
read this…
Note to self: read this when you’re on a faster computer: http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/2.2/features/reflections/jon1.htm
reminder to read this
Michael, I know you’re busy right now, so I wanted to write this as a reminder. Definitely check out Computers and Composition, Volume 21, Number 3, 2004, for issues on hypertext, queer issues in the classroom and with technology, etc.
a note to myself to read this
http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/2.2/features/reflections/jon1.htm
after our ma writing group meeting
We had a really good conversation in our MA Writing Group meeting on Wednesday regarding my thesis topic ideas. It was really helpful and very engaging. In fact, Sarah B. pointed out how my topic was the first thesis topic that really provoked an argument about ideas. It was really cool. Earlier on my blog [...]
thesis “proposal” for MAWG
Cross-posted on MAWG: Polemics and Irenics in Argument – it’s a start? In her essay “The Womanization of Rhetoric,“ Sally Miller Gearhart writes that she believes “that any intent to persuade is an act of violence“ because the persuader has an intention of changing someone (53), and proposes that instead we should “forsake all this [...]
Kevin Brooks’s “Reading, Writing, and Teaching Creative Hypertext”
Brooks, Kevin. “Reading, Writing, and Teaching Creative Hypertext: A Genre-Baed Pedagogy.” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 2.3 (2002): 337-356. In this article, Brooks argues for a genre-based pedagogy for teaching hypertexts. There are a few points from his essay that I think my be pertinent to my 511 paper:
