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May 19, 2011 by thowe Teacher-scholars unite! I’ve been testing some possible applications of Omeka archives and Zotero as collaborative tools organizing the development of literary research methodologies classes, and I’d like to take the wonderful opportunity of THATcamp to begin developing the structure and content of project I see as The Next Step. I’d …
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After four long weeks, we're finally through with Conrad in EN/HU501! We spent quite a bit of time with the piece, using it as a tool to more fully explore the nature of literary analysis, close reading, generating good essay topics, brainstorming, and so on. One thing I've done differently in this iteration of the …
Our first 501 course meets this evening, and I'm eager to get a sense of my student's experience with literature, literary history, literary research, and literary analysis. I've asked everyone to read an essay from Falling into Theory on the history of the discipline, as well as Conrad's Heart of Darkness and a few other …
