Still trying to decide how to go about doing this project. I believe it will begin on May 1. I have been considering where to start with the readings. There are so many things I want to read that are on my bookshelf staring at me right NOW.
But, for now, I'm going to discuss something I am reading for a Mentoring Meeting tomorrow. The article is called "An Essay We're Learning to Read Responding to Alt.Style" by Michael Spooner in AltDis: Alternative Discourses and the Academy. For me, the shaded blocks are examples of how someone attempting to edit an alt.style might try to force the writer back into a more conventional or accepted discourse style. This Meta-commentary or meta-narrative really drives home for me the importance of understanding a piece of writing written in this style. This type of discourse finally places some of the responsibility of making meaning on the reader. I like that.
There were times that I asked myself if this could be considered a queering of the text, but I'm not certain. Is it a queering of academic discourse, forcing the reader to interact with the text, ? I don't know.
My favorite "bubble joke?" "How many copyeditors does it take to screw in a light bulb?" Response: "Not sure whether you mean 'change a light bulb' or 'have sex in a light bulb.' Consider revising for clarity?" Hardee har har
Favorite word: essayistic. God I love writers who are not afraid to make up new and innovative words.
And, I've just figured out where to start my project. This article quotes a book I started a while back, but did not get to finish. I will pick up and finish Janet Murray's Hamlet on the Holodeck. A seminal piece for one of my main areas of interest.
But, for now, I'm going to discuss something I am reading for a Mentoring Meeting tomorrow. The article is called "An Essay We're Learning to Read Responding to Alt.Style" by Michael Spooner in AltDis: Alternative Discourses and the Academy. For me, the shaded blocks are examples of how someone attempting to edit an alt.style might try to force the writer back into a more conventional or accepted discourse style. This Meta-commentary or meta-narrative really drives home for me the importance of understanding a piece of writing written in this style. This type of discourse finally places some of the responsibility of making meaning on the reader. I like that.
There were times that I asked myself if this could be considered a queering of the text, but I'm not certain. Is it a queering of academic discourse, forcing the reader to interact with the text, ? I don't know.
My favorite "bubble joke?" "How many copyeditors does it take to screw in a light bulb?" Response: "Not sure whether you mean 'change a light bulb' or 'have sex in a light bulb.' Consider revising for clarity?" Hardee har har
Favorite word: essayistic. God I love writers who are not afraid to make up new and innovative words.
And, I've just figured out where to start my project. This article quotes a book I started a while back, but did not get to finish. I will pick up and finish Janet Murray's Hamlet on the Holodeck. A seminal piece for one of my main areas of interest.
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