Kellie's First Year Writing Seminar Blog

[kelliesanborn]

http://site.ebrary.com.ursus-proxy-6.ursus.maine.edu/lib/umf/docDetail.action?docID=10470521

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Cultures of Print

"Hall expertly lays out the state of our knowledge in the areas of printing, literacy, reading, and the interchange between learned and popular culture in early America. He then argues for a new approach to the early American cultures of print. By stressing how print was used rather than dwelling on quantitative studies of book production and distribution, Hall sketches a fuller, more human picture of early American culture".

[sumaya94]

I found myself unable to follow the plot of this game, if there was one. As I reached higher and higher levels, I found myself understanding it less and less. After reading the description and looking up “Dadaism,” which is defined by dictionary.com as being “founded on principles of...

[kelliesanborn]

I agree on the thoughts of it as an artistic medium-- perhaps these can relate to it as a non-hierarchical text. Because it is so difficult to read and play the game at the same time, I think that it is safe to assume that we all would have read entirely different small portions of text from the game, and hence created our own understanding of what it was about?

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Thoughts on Evidence of Everything Exploding

So I know that I don't need to post reflections on here, but I felt like I wanted to say a little something about this game/text/notreallysurewhattocallit in order to maybe organize my own thoughts on it. I played the game through maybe five times, because, like most of you, the first time produced nothing but confusion due to the need to win. So, I continued to play so that I could read the documents-- which still made absolutely no sense to me. With the primary source worn out, I went to some of my secondary resources-- a couple of art major friends who are much better than I am at analyzing the obscure.  So, here is what they came up with, due to the second level, which gives references to Dada-ism, a bizarre and intentionally meaningless art movement from post-WWI. http://www.mariabuszek.com/kcai/DadaSurrealism/DadaSurrReadings/TzaraD1.pdf this is the Dada manifesto.  I mean, none of us really came up with anything, but we kind of think that this "text," if you will, is perhaps meant to be a reflection upon the meaningless. Thoughts? I'm still so confused. Also, this game is scary. Really scary.

[kelliesanborn]

Blog Posts

Hey, guys! Great class today! It was really interesting to see your books and discussion was pretty spot-on. I just wanted to remind everyone that as tempting as it is, given the medium of blog-posting, to write in "internet-type" or "text speak" (i.e. leaving out punctuation and capitalization, leaving proper grammar behind), this is a writing class, and so it is important that you're writing as though you're writing for a college class... which you are. Responses don't need to be perfect by any means, but you should be taking the time to write out thought-out responses with proper mechanics. Good luck with the first drafts of your papers, and please feel free to contact me with questions... I'm here to help! -Kellie

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In case you check tumblr more often than e-mail...

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Here are a couple of links you should really check out before the presentation on T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" tomorrow: Introduction Poem

[rocklide94]

when and where is the presentation tomorrow?

[kelliesanborn]

11:45-1 in Lincoln Auditorium

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