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Last class..

Returning to our remediation exercise! Let’s take five minutes to review your notes, open up the links we explored…

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Basic Questions to consider while you brainstorm your ideas for Project 1:

• Who are the characters in this story? What do we know about them? What is contentious about them?
• What are the plots in this book? How do they function individually and in connection with one another?
• What kinds of paratexts does this book employ, and to what purpose?
• What kinds of notes do Jen and Eric leave in this book?
• What do the differently colored pens suggest about the timeline of Jen and Eric’s reading practices?
• Where do additional materials appear, and why? 
• How might we analyze this text in regards to how it presents (and/or complicates our understandings of) authorship, collaboration, and readership?
• What role does research and academia play in this novel?

As this will be a relatively short paper, try to focus your argument on only one type of textual element and one or two characters, so you don’t get lost in the minutia of the book as a whole! With regards to research, I’m giving you a head start with Gerard Gennette’s Paratexts (see link above). His analysis of the role and meaning of this genre will be useful to us, particularly the introduction and the section on fictional notes (345 ff.).

Please bring your proposals to class (printed or posted to the Commons). We will workshop them together as a group.