Monday, March 23, 2009

March 23- Juxta and Frankenstein

Homework for Friday:
- On BB go to Poetess Archive folder under course documents
- Look at 3 versions of the Bijou poem
1- Page image
2- HTML version
3- TEL encoded version
- Task: do a close reading of the poem in the HTML version
- Question 1: is the poem the same in these 3 versions?
- Question 2: What difference will digitizing make to our understanding of the poems?


Three Versions of Frankenstein:
- When comparing the three different variations of Frankenstein I noticed the difference of emphasis from friend to creature, in the 1831 edition.
Questions:
1-Did Mary Shelly write three different novles?
2-The stranger agrees to different things, why does the change matter?
3-Why does visualizing the text matter?
Answers:
1- I think that Mary Shelly didn't write three novels. I think that she just revised the first one and had it republished. She found that there were something that needed to be changed or added and decided to republish the book.
3-Visualizing helps with the understanding of a text and helps with a close reading of passages.

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