literature
The Tyranny of Henry James
Submitted by jrlewis on Fri, 03/05/2010 - 5:17pmIn our discussion of The Portrait of a Lady, Anne asked our class to consider “who is the tyrant” of the novel. She was inquiring what character or concept constrained the formerly free and independent character of Isabel Archer. A discussion ensued about whether Gilbert Osmond or Isabel Archer’s imagination was the tyrant. I would like to propose a third interpretation; Henry James, himself, is the great tyrant of his own novel.
Doll - An Exploratory Short Story
Submitted by aseidman on Thu, 03/04/2010 - 8:21pm
In class on Tuesday, May 2, 2010, we discussed the fact that Henry James, particularly in his novel The Portrait of a Lady, leaves a great deal unsaid. He chooses not to include in the novel several scenes in which his characters make important decisions, but instead references those decisions later, never having explored the nature of how they came about. Some of my classmates were very much against this idea, or felt cheated by the fact that James did not feel it necessary to provide them with all of the information pertaining to his story. Other classmates were intrigued, or even pleased by the fact that he left such a great deal up to the imagination of the reader.
Storytelling through Serials - How and Why?
I think it would be an interesting idea for us to study serial fiction as a genre.
Intellectual Property P2P - Fanfiction as Emerging Genre
Submitted by aseidman on Sun, 02/21/2010 - 12:04pm
Intellectual Property P2P – Fanfiction as Emerging Genre
World Literature and Neurobiology
The Facebook group "Rethinking World Literature" hosts a series of interdisciplinary discussions around the topic of what constitutes "world literature." The Evolving Systems project on Serendip hosts a series of interdisciplinary discussions exploring the common usefulness in a wide array of contexts, academic and otherwise, of emergent and evolving systems ideas. The conversation documented below is archived from a discussion on the Rethinking World Literature Facebook site and will be added to as that discussion continues. A second discussion archive on "From Evolving Systems to World Literature and Back Again" is available here.
A Nighttime Scene: Katharine and Alice in Bed
Submitted by exsoloadsolem on Sat, 02/06/2010 - 5:44pm
Transcript of the First Annual Bedroom Debates
Submitted by aseidman on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 12:08pm
Hello and welcome to the first annual 2010 Bedroom Debates! I’m Arielle Seidman, and I’ll be your host for a fascinating few pages of reclined repartee!
From evolving systems to world literature and back again?
The Facebook group "Rethinking World Literature" hosts a series of interdisciplinary discussions around the topic of what constitutes "world literature." The Evolving Systems project on Serendip hosts a series of interdisciplinary discussions exploring the common usefulness in a wide array of contexts, academic and otherwise, of emergent and evolving systems ideas. The conversation documented below is archived from a discussion on the Rethinking World Literature Facebook site and will be added to as that discussion continues.
Thoughts on blogging
Jo(e)'s blog and the comments it inspired got me to think a bit more about blogging than I have in the past. I've never really blogged myself (aside from now, I guess), but I do consider it an interesting hobby, one that no one can ignore these days. Most of the people who responded to Jo(e)'s posting, however, have taken a more active part in the blogging world, and their views provided points of interest for me.
Literature as a Conversation: The WEblog
Dictionary.com says the definition of a database is "a comprehensive collection of related data organized for convenient access, generally in a computer."
The same site recognizes an archive as "any extensive record or collection of data."
