Please turn in your final essays (#3) by the end of the day on December 5th via email!
For Monday, December 1st, please read: Shelley Jackson’s The Body & Stuart Moulthrop’s “Pax”
For EXTRA CREDIT: please blog a response on each of the above readings. Describe your reading experience: 1) how did you navigate through the story? 2) what, if any, is your understanding of the main theme or the “story” being told? 3) how it is similar to or different from any of the other readings we’ve done for this class? 4) After reading these texts, what is your understanding of what the author is trying to suggest about the body (both via content of narrative and via the way the story is delivered)?
For Wednesday, December 3rd, please read: Chapter 1: “Lord Burleigh’s Kiss” (p. 13-26) from Murray, Janet H. (1997) Hamlet and the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. This reading will be made available to you via handouts on Monday, the 1st.
Friday, December 5th: FINAL ESSAYS ARE DUE by the end of the day via email!
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For your final essay, you will be comparing/contrasting two of the class readings. Your specific topic is your choice, but you will want to be sure that you make an argument. You could, for example, focus on a number of things, from how the body is portrayed in each reading (and what these portrayals suggest about attitudes or thoughts towards the body) to a particular theme (of human desire to create a sort of Utopia or how the idea of love is represented). You want to choose a topic that is specific enough to fully explore and will be focusing on the similarities and differences between how the two texts you choose deal with your topic or theme. You could also focus on literary style – and the ways in which each of your chosen texts uses style to enrich content and/or more fully engage the reader.
Please write a paragraph or two that proposes your topic and how you intend to approach it by Monday, November 17th. You can post here on this blog or turn in to me in class. Your proposal will count as a response grade.
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