Project #2           
Due Date:
Wednesday, March 22, 5:00 pm

Your second assignment asks you to create a piece of analytical hypertext, in which you produce a critical reading of a passage (or passages, if you’re feeling ambitious) from the novels we’ve read.  This involves a number of things:

First, you must select a passage of text from the novel in question.  This passage MUST fit within fair use guidelines (i.e., I don’t want publishers or the administration breathing down my neck when we put these things online).  The passage should thus be a relatively brief segment, perhaps ten pages in length.

The links that you create will be to your own commentary on the passage.  This commentary may include quotes from the criticism or references to other pertinent points in the novel (or other novels), but it should largely consist of your own writing — interpretation, explication, illustration, meditation, etc.

Your links should come together to form a kind of argument, much as would exist in a traditional analytical essay — except that here, the argument is implicit rather than explicit.  This argument should provide your focus, and thus, your hypertext should not include EVERY possible link or interpretation, but should rather present ONE relatively unified (if preferably complex) way of reading the passage in question that illuminates the novel as a whole.

All materials that are not your own original writing must be attributed and proper copyright information noted.

You must post this project by the above time.  You and your partner will present this project to the class on Thursday, March 23.