Novel Experience & Expression

 
Final Project — “Resonance Assemblage”

Due: W 09-Dec, as blog (format)
(30 points, 2000 words; 6 sources min.)

 
 
Requirements

 
 
Entries:

16-20 fragments (entries)
         — *note: manipulated (or composite) image counts as an entry (4 max)
 
Use all features of the Web format
         — Tags/categories, links, widgets (Tag Cloud), Theme, etc
         — Multimedia (required)
 
Cite any source material used in comment; then list on “Materials” page.

 
 
Required Pages:

Home
About
Entries (or “Posts”)
Materials
Poetics
Reflection

 
 
Sources:

Literary: 4 (2 from Part II novels)
Scholarly: 2 min. (e.g. historical info, research)
Multimedia: 10 minimum
         — including manipulated images (2 min.) & personal media (1 min., created or “archived”)

 
 
Guidelines for Entries:

Note: Instructions deliberately limited in order to promote (require) maximum creative & innovative approach to composing project.

 
Employ as many of the techniques and materials from our authors as you see fit — as part of literary source and cultural dimension requirements; specifically, interface, expressive figures, and multiple narratives (required). Reminder: “Ready-made” or “Bricolage” method — use available “raw materials” from entire paradigm, (rather than inventing all new images, stories, characters, etc.)

Likewise, method of using images: “re-fashion” / “re-purpose” visually, by using any image program to manipulate, including free / online software (e.g. Pixlr)

 

Project writes with entire paradigm:

Personal Experience
Disciplinary Discourse
Cultural Forms
Original Narrative

 
Note: as all dimensions/discourses are necessary, suggest using 4 instances of each (2 minimum required), in order to diversify the assemblage (and avoid imbalance of discourse).

 
 
 
Required Pages:

“Home” (or Front) page (distinct content)
 
“About” page
Briefly introduce yourself and the purpose of this blog as “hosting” (?) your project; (this is public, on the Web, after all…).

 
“Materials”

“This is essentially a “Bibliography,” the web analogue to an essay’s “Works Cited” page: provide source info. about the “materials” that appear within your project. Specifically: literary sources; scholarly documents and info; media and references from pop culture. This section identifies the component materials that you’ve used to create the composite assemblage.

 
 
“Poetics” (5 pts; 300-500 words)

Two-fold purpose: describe the process of composing, your method and rationale for employing the specific lessons of our authors in this experiment; (more descriptive than “poetics inventory” blog entries).
 
Additionally, from your project, produce a “guide for unconventional discourse” (new mode of thinking and expression); ideally, someone else could emulate your poetics, wanting to compose a work of “critical expressionism” or “narrative assemblage”: an “antidote” to the modes of judgment (belief and reason) and forgetting aspects of experience. More directly, describe your method for our “impossible task” of expressing affect of lived experience through particular techniques (be specific, relative to your project).

 
 

“Reflection” (5 pts; 300-500 words)

1) Evaluate your project (briefly), from perspective of class topics/issues and terms:
new (or innovative) type of discourse? mode of aesthetics rather than judgment (how so?)? or, shortcomings at points in belief or rational discourse?
Unique function of expressing affect? (how and to what extent?)
Diverse composition as “assemblage,” a hybrid genre, with resonance between heterogeneous elements?

 

2) “Self-reflexive” knowledge, from composing and reading (most important).
Results of our experiment? (semester-long; review)
New insights? Implications?
(about humanities methodology; discourse, literature, narrative; experience, memory/forgetting, history/past; intuition, “attunement”; review blog).

Prospective application or potential: of “critical expressionism”? “assemblage” writing? — “attunement” and “resonance” modes?
Advantages or limitations of this type of work? Implications?
(recall the opposition between TV : passive receivers and Internet : active producers; also recall “critical stance” toward “inheriting” information, within our entire paradigm)
Finally, discuss the implications or obligations about the ethical aspect and specific responsibility in undertaking this work — regarding the intuition, expression, and memory/awareness of others’ experiences.