We discussed the introduction to Stephen Greenblatt’s Renaissance Self-Fashioning yesterday. Then, each section formed groups of 4-6 students and drew out a variety of ways to visualize the self-fashioning process, as described by Greenblatt. Here are the results of our experiment – Read more…
Over the last semester we have read a variety of sources, from Sidney’s Defense of Poesy to Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. They all respond in some way to the course theme of “Defending Society.” We began our class by asking the question “defending Read more…
Last session, we focused on a Fahrenheit 451 passage in which Montag and Faber discuss why people struggle with unhappiness in their seemingly post-scarcity economy. We decided that the following keywords best characterize the themes of the passage as they relate to Read more…
Read your partners’ papers and answer the following questions. What is the argument? What feedback can you offer regarding the clarity and persuasiveness of the argument? What evidence do they use to support the argument? What feedback can you offer in Read more…
The draft for our class project is up! You can find it at: http://ben-jonson.gitlab.io/outline/ The page uses angular, d3-force (the graph), ngx-charts (pie charts), ngx-md (parsing and showing markdown text), and vmware clarity (overall styling and layout). Please contact me with Read more…
An example of a character map for the first two acts of Bartholomew Fair
Peer Review Guidelines for Short Paper 1 Instructions: A. Read the paper in full one time without stopping to ask for clarification. Respond as a reader in the author’s target audience (not as if you were going to grade it). Read more…
I’ve synthesized below the parts of Defense of Poesy we identified in group work: Exordium: Story about horses and name-dropping a famous riding master (page 3) Narratio Poesy is under attack! (starting page 4) Propositio Poesy is important to society Read more…
Questions: 1) How does Sidney use the term idea in today’s reading? Intangible concepts, beyond the realm of appearances; poets can access them; people who read can learn how or why a maker made something Poesy expresses ideas – main point Read more…
Put a few keywords in the first paragraph that relate to the skill you are arguing improved. For example, if you are arguing that you got better at making improvements across multiple drafts in response to feedback, use a keyword Read more…