Week 3: Into the Information Commons

Photo credit: Marie Freeman, modified by Leo Flores

In class

  • Library Tour (physical and virtual) with Breanne Crumpton
    • Class meets in Belk Library room 024.
    • Tour, exploration, discussion of library resources.
  • Discussion of Formalism, New Criticism, Reader’s Response Criticism

Assignments

  • Readings:
    • Planned Obsolescence (1-120)
    • Structuralism:
      • Ferdinand de Saussure (956)
      • Roman Jacobson (1254)
      • Tzvetan Todorov (2097)
    • Deconstruction:
      • Jacques Derrida (1815)
  • Writing Assignment:
    • Write a 1-2 page summary of the key concepts proposed by DeSaussure, Jacobson, Todorov, and Derrida. Due on Tuesday, September 7 in Google Classroom.
    • Have a conversation in Google Classroom about the ideas proposed by Kathleen Kirkpatrick in Planned Obsolescence (I will pose it as a question assignment). Make an original contribution and respond to at least two classmates before class on Thursday, September 9.

By Leonardo Flores

Professor Leonardo Flores is Chair of the English Department at Appalachian State University. He taught at the English Department at University of Puerto Rico: Mayagüez Campus from 1994 to 2019. He is President of the Electronic Literature Organization. He was the 2012-2013 Fulbright Scholar in Digital Culture at the University of Bergen in Norway. His research areas are electronic literature and its preservation via criticism, documentation, and digital archives. He is the creator of a scholarly blogging project titled I ♥ E-Poetry, co-editor of the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 3, and has a Spanish language e-lit column in 80 Grados. He is currently co-editing the first Anthology of Latin American Electronic Literature. For more information on his current work, visit leonardoflores.net.