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Fall 2004 COURSE DESCRIPTION How does one know if a digital poem is being read correctly, if the reader
perceives its contours, if it is making the impact one would hope for?
In such a new medium, this is a perennial problem and a source of much
interesting debate. It is also a fertile area for exploring poesis and
critical analysis. In "Digital Poetry Production" students will
create a digital poem of a scope relevant to their abilities. The course
will consist of engagement with methods of "reading" digital
poetry projects, giving feedback about how such projects "work",
and the development of systems of analysis and interpretation for the
reception of digital poetry. Students will undertake several smaller individual
digital poetry exercises along with engaging a longer, semester-long project.
Providing feedback to the projects of classmates is essential to this
course. Study of methods of analysis, modes of interpretation, and horizons
of reception are integral to developing modes of advancing digital poetry
reception skills. In this class we will read and make digital poetry,
we will study the works of leading digital poets as paradigmatic to new
modes of digital poetry analysis, and we will read articles relevant to
the issues involved in the reading and writing of digital poetry. We will
read theory relevant to the interpretation and analysis to new modes of
non-linear, interactive, and time-based artistic presentation. Though
reading and analysis skills at a graduate level are expected, no knowledge
of any specific software or hardware is required. No formal training in
any such skills will be given, however it is hoped that participants can
learn different methods from the instructor during the course, through
collaboration with other students, and that students have an interest
in acquiring basic skills, such as elementary HTML. A supplemental one-unit
laboratory credit is available to students who wish to use lab facilities
as part of this course. Note: Students who do not wish to do digital poetry
production may take the course with an analysis option. Course requirements
include production/analysis, oral presentation of assigned digital texts,
very close reading of theoretical essays related to the topic, collaborative
discussions and analysis of digital reading practices, and other related
class activities. For those students who are producing digital texts,
their work will receive close reading and hopefully much useful feedback.
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