| The Books:
Themes for Students' Final Projects
(Fall 1997)
Moby-Dick Hypertext
Student Projects (Fall 1997)
On-line Instructions,
Assignment and Template for Paper Number Two
Student
Projects (Spring 1997)
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This course will examine several works of American fiction as they
have shaped and been shaped by some of the most important literary traditions
in the United States. This course is not a "survey" course, but
it is intended to be an introductory course for the study of the multiple
literatures of the United States. Our focus will be primarily how the aesthetic,
rhetorical, formal, and cultural dimensions of the works are expressive
of a variety of shared themes such as human and cultural memory, the meaning
of national history, cultural and social construction of self-identity,
and dramas of racial difference. The course will meet one day a week in
a conventional classroom and one day a week in a networked computer classroom,
where we will learn to use a variety of electronic tools for analyzing
and seeing these literary texts in new ways.
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