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GER 494/598; ENG 494/549; HUM
494
Spring 2003, Daniel Gilfillan
Final Semester Projects
Jerry Ferguson - "Text Parsing
with Word Association"
The aim of this study is to draw some measurable
conclusions about how often certain words are associated
with each other in a text. One may ask, “who
cares, why is word association important?” My
aim is to provide some answers about exciting research
in the study of the relationships between words in
a text.
Bethany Lewis - "Shakespeare
(Post)modernized: The State of the Bard in an Age of
Progressive Politicization"
Shakespeare need not be abandoned by the postmodern
world. Indeed, the postmodern world does and should
continue to embrace his works. Though his plays in
pure form do not always agree ideologically with popular
political consensus among academics, the plays especially
as film renditions prove conducive to a myriad of
discussions including gender and ethnicity, and a
wide spectrum of interpretations relevant to the postmodern
era.
Access the paper here
Tara Martineau - "A Hypertextual
Exploration of Hypertext"
The truth seems to be that the novel, as we know
it, is changing, has changed, and will forever remain
changed. Gone are the days of holding the story in
your hands while you slip into the reality created
for you by the author and his characters. Perhaps
this prediction is a bit pessimistic, but the inevitable
decline of the importance of the printed version of
a work can be read in the suppositions of modern literary
theorists.
Enter
the site
William Moor - "At some point
one could certainly say that the Britons"
This site stemmed from a question asked many times
in class: What is cyberspace? At first, I
took a stance that wished to explain this question
through a generic dialogue, that each time one read
the dialogue after another, though it may be the same,
it would have more depth to it. I scrapped this through
many revisions of the webpage. What became interesting
to me was Barthes notion of the reader explained at
the end of "The Death of the Author." He
states that "the reader is without history [.
. .], he is simply that someone who holds
together in a single field all the traces by which
the written text is constituted" and that "a
texts unity lies no in its origin but in its destination."
It is this destination that was trying to achieve
from this webpage.
Stephanie Moos - "Italo Calvino
as Author/Game-master in If on a winter’s
night a traveler
Ultimately we have the sense that this is a novel
where Calvino is in total authorial control, not only
in the sense that he controls the characters, the
plot, the structure of the novel, etc., but also in
the sense that he controls us as readers of the novel.
He does so by creating a novel that is a game, complete
with virtual reality-like settings where his characters
act out their adventures with seemingly little control
over their own destinies. Calvino acts as the ultimate
game-creator/game-master who controls both the characters
he creates and the real players of this game-like
novel, the readers.
Access the paper here
Solomon Rotstein -
Callen Shutters - "The Current
State of Virtual Art and Exhibition"
Virtual art is the product of long-standing traditions
in art merged with revolutionary technological advances.
With innovations emerging almost as fast as end-users
can test and master new systems, technology has dramatically
altered our daily lives and changed our thought processes.
Like many technological advances, virtual and cyber
realities have been embraced, and often created by
artists that experiment with the myriad of possibilities
that technology can offer.
Access the paper here
Chrissy Zubieta - "Primitive
Digital Composition"
We are in the beginning of the digital age, though
we will not remain here for long.
Soon digital technology will be replaced with
another “advanced technology” just as digital is replacing
analogue technology. This may be a significant milestone
in the evolution of human progress, but we are not
in the clear of the past by any means.
In fact, it is the past that constrains the
pace of progress.
Enter
the site here
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