Essay #3: Analysis and Interpretation of an E-Poem

Generated image. Prompt "Digital Poetry"

Description

For this essay, you must select an e-poem from The Electronic Literature Collection (focus on poetry in the ELC3, ELC4), The New River (see also their archives) or anything out there that has not been discussed thoroughly in class or in a previous assignment by you or any other source. In addition to performing detailed analyses of your chosen poem, this essay assignment will require you to do some research beyond the poem into its technological, literary, cultural, historical, and/or biographical contexts. Your essay must have a clearly stated interpretation of the poem as its thesis, and detailed analyses of the work as support, as well as incorporating at least 2 chapters from Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities or articles in Electronic Book Review.

Parameters and Criteria

  • Alternatively, you can write an original e-poem to satisfy this assignment (See creative option below)
  • Each paper should be about 1000 words (4 pages) in length.
  • It should offer an interpretive thesis that is supported by detailed analysis of the work.
  • When necessary, include screen-captured images or video to support your essay
  • The essay should be formatted in MLA or some other established format.
  • The essay is due on Monday, December 12 via ASU Learn.

Creative Option

If you prefer, you can write an original digital poem for this assignment, please accompany it with a 500 word essay that discusses how you created the poem in conversation with digital media technologies and reference at least 2 chapters from Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities or articles in Electronic Book Review.

 

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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.