Course blog: http://blogs.iac.gatech.edu/victoriantechnologyandart/
Blog Posting 6: Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference
Due by 11pm on Sunday, April 19.
In you final blog posting you will assert an argument analyzing the relationship of at least one presentation at the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference (April 16-19) to the contents of our course. You must also consider the style and delivery of the presentation in terms of its WOVEN (Written, Oral, Visual, Electronic, and Nonverbal) elements and demonstration of multimodal synergy (how these elements work together). Make sure to take notes when during the session(s) you attend. Your postings will also include and analyze an image and at least one quotation from a text we have read.
The conference, which is hosted by Georgia Tech, will be held at the Loews Hotel in Midtown, Atlanta (1065 Peachtree Street NE). During class and via
email we can arrange groups to go together to the conference at different times. The conference schedule is available here and you are welcome to attend any of the presentations or keynote lectures.
If you cannot make it to the Loews Hotel, you can also write about the exhibition, "Moving Bodies: Nineteenth Century Sports," on display at the Clough Gallery Space at Georgia Tech. You can visit the exhibition as part of the conference from 3-4:45pm on Thursday, April 16 or at another time. As you examine the exhibition's demonstration of WOVEN communication and multimodal synergy, consider the way that the element of display and arrangement of the images or artifacts in the exhibition creates meaning. Is there a narrative that the exhibition as a whole presents? Your posting will focus on one image or artifact, addressing its relationship to the exhibition as a whole and topics we have addressed this term. You will include a photograph of the image or artifact you are examining as well as its title and caption, if there is one. Your posting will also analyze at least one quotation from a text we have read.
Your posting will be at least 250 words and is due by 11pm on Sunday, April 19.
Remember to proofread and use correct MLA format for citations. Also remember that you must use your own words, unless you are quoting appropriately, and include all sources you consult, including webpages, in your list of works cited.
Blog Posting 5: The Technology and Art of President Obama's Visit
Due at least thirty minutes before class on Tuesday, March 31.
Your fifth blog posting invites you to assert an argument analyzing the relationship of at least one aspect of President Obama's speech at Georgia Tech on March 10 to concepts we have addressed this term, including technology and art, creativity, literature, and science. You can write about
either the live speech or the livestream online broadcast. You must also include and analyze an image in your posting. You may not
be allowed to photograph the event, but you can use a recording online to capture images later, if it is available. You must also analyze at least one quotation from a text we have read.
Your posting will be at least 250 words and due at least thirty minutes before class on March 31.
Remember to proofread and use correct MLA format for citations. Also remember that you must use your own words, unless you are quoting appropriately, and include all sources you consult, including webpages, in your list of works cited.
Blog Posting 4: Wilde Criticism
Due at least thirty minutes before class on Tuesday, March 3.
In your fourth blog posting, you will assert an argument that analyzes at least two quotations from chapters 10-20 of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray in light of at least two of the following essays:
Your posting must also analyze and include an image from the 1973 or 2009 films of Dorian Gray.
Your posting must be at least 250 words.
Remember to proofread and use correct MLA format for citations. Also remember that you must use your own words, unless you are quoting appropriately, and include all sources you consult, including webpages, in your list of works cited.
Blog Posting 3: The Art of Oscar Wilde
Due at least thirty minutes before class on Tuesday, February 24.
In your third blog posting, you will analyze at least one statement about art in The Picture of Dorian Gray and its role in the novel. You must analyze at least two quotations from the novel, one or more of which will be a statement about art. As you do so, compare and contrast these statements about art with the artistic theories that we have encountered in texts by and about Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Morris, and the Pre-Raphaelites, quoting from or paraphrasing, and citing in either case, at least one of these instances. How does Wilde develop and depart from the ideas of his predecessors?
You must also select at least one photograph of Oscar Wilde to analyze in your posting. If possible, also address the date of the photograph in relation to Wilde’s career. Consider how the photograph relates to Wilde’s own fashioning of his persona and the ways that he was responding to, or departing from, the artistic theories you address in your posting. Photography was a new form of technology that contributed to Wilde’s popularity, which we will read more about in Jonathan Goldman’s book Modernism is the Literature of Celebrity.
Your posting must be at least 250 words.
Remember to cite all sources that you consult and include a list of works cited in MLA format. Also remember to review strategies for incorporating quotations in the guide under resources on T-Square.
Blog Posting 2: The Lifted Veil
Due at least 30 minutes before class on Tuesday, January 27.
In your second blog posting, you will assert an argument analyzing the role of the supernatural in George Eliot’s The Lifted Veil (1860). In your posting, you will analyze at least two quotations from the story and draw a comparison or contrast to the role of the supernatural in Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) or Rudyard Kipling’s “Wireless” (1901), or in both stories, analyzing one quotation from at least one of these stories to support your point.
Other topics to consider include the role of science, visual images, the city, and gender in the story. You might investigate a single moment, a pair of moments, or the use of a word. Remember to select a narrow focus so that you can achieve depth in your analysis.
In addition, your posting must examine and incorporate one image from the documentary George Eliot: A Scandalous Life. You can capture a screen shot of the film using Jing.
You can also quote from and cite the contents of the documentary as a source in your posting.
You might also find it useful to consult and cite this resource regarding the role of science in the The Lifted Veil https://wiki.uiowa.edu/display/vicwik/The+Lifted+Veil.
Your posting must be at least 250 words. Remember to cite all sources you consult using correct MLA format.
You must include a list of works cited at the end of your blog posting acknowledging all sources you have consulted, including webpages. You must use your own words and cite all sources appropriately in all of your work this term.
Blog Posting 1: Jekyll and Hyde
Due at least 30 minutes before class on Tuesday, January 20.
In your first blog posting, you will assert an argument analyzing the significance at least one aspect of technology in Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Your posting must analyze at least two quotations from the novel, using correct MLA style. You must also analyze and cite one quotation or idea from Stephen Arata's essay, "The Sedulous Ape: Atavism, Professionalism, and Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde," and one quotation or idea from either Tom Standage's The Victorian Internet or Nicholas Daly's chapter, "Technology," from the Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture.
You can interpret technology broadly, considering such topics as the role of science, medicine, crime detection, and the city in in the novel. You might investigate a single moment, a pair of moments, or the use of a word. Remember to select a narrow focus so that you can achieve depth in your analysis.
In addition, your posting must examine and incorporate one image from one of the film adaptations of the novel. You might address the way the film interprets, transforms, or envisions an aspect of the text that you have investigated. You can view these films here: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920s) and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1955). You can capture a screen shot of the film using Jing.
For sample student blog postings, see http://globaldigitalmodernisms.weebly.com/in-class/cezanne-and-the-modern and http://globaldigitalmodernisms.weebly.com/in-class/jean-rhyss-paris.
Your posting must be at least 250 words. Remember to cite all sources you consult using correct MLA format.
You must include a list of works cited at the end of your blog posting acknowledging all sources you have consulted, including webpages. You must use your own words and cite all sources appropriately in all of your work this term.
Blog Posting Instructions
Throughout the term you will post at least four blog entries on four of the six dates indicated on the syllabus. You must also comment on at least one of your peers’ blog postings on four of the six dates on the syllabus. Our blog will be limited to members of the three sections of English 1102: Victorian Technology and Art and not available to the public. The instructor will provide an assignment for the postings indicated on the syllabus, but you are also welcome to post and comment whenever you feel inspired to do so.
Your blog entries must be at least 250 words and analyze quotations from the text as well as an image, sound, or video clip that you will include or indicate with a link.
Blog postings provide an opportunity to shed light on the contexts that inform the texts we will read. You should build from the topics we have addressed in class and in our projects, taking the readings a step further and posing questions for your classmates to consider. The blog is also a place where you can receive feedback as you develop your projects.
You must use MLA citation format to acknowledge the sources to which you refer or the images or media you incorporate in your posting.
The four required blog entries and comments count as part of your participation grade for the course.
Blog postings are due at least 30 minutes before class. To be counted as one of your four required comments, a comment must be posted within 24 hours of a blog's due date. You can post additional comments at any time.
For MLA style see https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/
For quoting practices see: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/563/01/
and https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/03/
For avoiding plagiarism see: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/930/10/
Blog Rubric
The instructor will evaluate your blog postings using the following five point rubric, ranging from 0 (no credit) to 4 (exceptional). Grades will be posted on Gradebook on T-Square.
Adapted from http://www.samplereality.com/2009/08/14/pedagogy-and-the-class-blog/
Blog Posting 6: Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference
Due by 11pm on Sunday, April 19.
In you final blog posting you will assert an argument analyzing the relationship of at least one presentation at the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference (April 16-19) to the contents of our course. You must also consider the style and delivery of the presentation in terms of its WOVEN (Written, Oral, Visual, Electronic, and Nonverbal) elements and demonstration of multimodal synergy (how these elements work together). Make sure to take notes when during the session(s) you attend. Your postings will also include and analyze an image and at least one quotation from a text we have read.
The conference, which is hosted by Georgia Tech, will be held at the Loews Hotel in Midtown, Atlanta (1065 Peachtree Street NE). During class and via
email we can arrange groups to go together to the conference at different times. The conference schedule is available here and you are welcome to attend any of the presentations or keynote lectures.
If you cannot make it to the Loews Hotel, you can also write about the exhibition, "Moving Bodies: Nineteenth Century Sports," on display at the Clough Gallery Space at Georgia Tech. You can visit the exhibition as part of the conference from 3-4:45pm on Thursday, April 16 or at another time. As you examine the exhibition's demonstration of WOVEN communication and multimodal synergy, consider the way that the element of display and arrangement of the images or artifacts in the exhibition creates meaning. Is there a narrative that the exhibition as a whole presents? Your posting will focus on one image or artifact, addressing its relationship to the exhibition as a whole and topics we have addressed this term. You will include a photograph of the image or artifact you are examining as well as its title and caption, if there is one. Your posting will also analyze at least one quotation from a text we have read.
Your posting will be at least 250 words and is due by 11pm on Sunday, April 19.
Remember to proofread and use correct MLA format for citations. Also remember that you must use your own words, unless you are quoting appropriately, and include all sources you consult, including webpages, in your list of works cited.
Blog Posting 5: The Technology and Art of President Obama's Visit
Due at least thirty minutes before class on Tuesday, March 31.
Your fifth blog posting invites you to assert an argument analyzing the relationship of at least one aspect of President Obama's speech at Georgia Tech on March 10 to concepts we have addressed this term, including technology and art, creativity, literature, and science. You can write about
either the live speech or the livestream online broadcast. You must also include and analyze an image in your posting. You may not
be allowed to photograph the event, but you can use a recording online to capture images later, if it is available. You must also analyze at least one quotation from a text we have read.
Your posting will be at least 250 words and due at least thirty minutes before class on March 31.
Remember to proofread and use correct MLA format for citations. Also remember that you must use your own words, unless you are quoting appropriately, and include all sources you consult, including webpages, in your list of works cited.
Blog Posting 4: Wilde Criticism
Due at least thirty minutes before class on Tuesday, March 3.
In your fourth blog posting, you will assert an argument that analyzes at least two quotations from chapters 10-20 of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray in light of at least two of the following essays:
- Michael Patrick Gillespie, “Picturing Dorian Gray: Resistant Readings in Wilde’s Novel” (in the Norton Critical Edition and on T-Square)
- Donald L. Lawler, “Oscar Wilde's First Manuscript of The Picture of Dorian Gray” (in the Norton Critical Edition)
- Jonathan Goldman, chapter one from Modernism is the Literature of Celebrity (on T-Square)
Your posting must also analyze and include an image from the 1973 or 2009 films of Dorian Gray.
Your posting must be at least 250 words.
Remember to proofread and use correct MLA format for citations. Also remember that you must use your own words, unless you are quoting appropriately, and include all sources you consult, including webpages, in your list of works cited.
Blog Posting 3: The Art of Oscar Wilde
Due at least thirty minutes before class on Tuesday, February 24.
In your third blog posting, you will analyze at least one statement about art in The Picture of Dorian Gray and its role in the novel. You must analyze at least two quotations from the novel, one or more of which will be a statement about art. As you do so, compare and contrast these statements about art with the artistic theories that we have encountered in texts by and about Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Morris, and the Pre-Raphaelites, quoting from or paraphrasing, and citing in either case, at least one of these instances. How does Wilde develop and depart from the ideas of his predecessors?
You must also select at least one photograph of Oscar Wilde to analyze in your posting. If possible, also address the date of the photograph in relation to Wilde’s career. Consider how the photograph relates to Wilde’s own fashioning of his persona and the ways that he was responding to, or departing from, the artistic theories you address in your posting. Photography was a new form of technology that contributed to Wilde’s popularity, which we will read more about in Jonathan Goldman’s book Modernism is the Literature of Celebrity.
Your posting must be at least 250 words.
Remember to cite all sources that you consult and include a list of works cited in MLA format. Also remember to review strategies for incorporating quotations in the guide under resources on T-Square.
Blog Posting 2: The Lifted Veil
Due at least 30 minutes before class on Tuesday, January 27.
In your second blog posting, you will assert an argument analyzing the role of the supernatural in George Eliot’s The Lifted Veil (1860). In your posting, you will analyze at least two quotations from the story and draw a comparison or contrast to the role of the supernatural in Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) or Rudyard Kipling’s “Wireless” (1901), or in both stories, analyzing one quotation from at least one of these stories to support your point.
Other topics to consider include the role of science, visual images, the city, and gender in the story. You might investigate a single moment, a pair of moments, or the use of a word. Remember to select a narrow focus so that you can achieve depth in your analysis.
In addition, your posting must examine and incorporate one image from the documentary George Eliot: A Scandalous Life. You can capture a screen shot of the film using Jing.
You can also quote from and cite the contents of the documentary as a source in your posting.
You might also find it useful to consult and cite this resource regarding the role of science in the The Lifted Veil https://wiki.uiowa.edu/display/vicwik/The+Lifted+Veil.
Your posting must be at least 250 words. Remember to cite all sources you consult using correct MLA format.
You must include a list of works cited at the end of your blog posting acknowledging all sources you have consulted, including webpages. You must use your own words and cite all sources appropriately in all of your work this term.
Blog Posting 1: Jekyll and Hyde
Due at least 30 minutes before class on Tuesday, January 20.
In your first blog posting, you will assert an argument analyzing the significance at least one aspect of technology in Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Your posting must analyze at least two quotations from the novel, using correct MLA style. You must also analyze and cite one quotation or idea from Stephen Arata's essay, "The Sedulous Ape: Atavism, Professionalism, and Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde," and one quotation or idea from either Tom Standage's The Victorian Internet or Nicholas Daly's chapter, "Technology," from the Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture.
You can interpret technology broadly, considering such topics as the role of science, medicine, crime detection, and the city in in the novel. You might investigate a single moment, a pair of moments, or the use of a word. Remember to select a narrow focus so that you can achieve depth in your analysis.
In addition, your posting must examine and incorporate one image from one of the film adaptations of the novel. You might address the way the film interprets, transforms, or envisions an aspect of the text that you have investigated. You can view these films here: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920s) and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1955). You can capture a screen shot of the film using Jing.
For sample student blog postings, see http://globaldigitalmodernisms.weebly.com/in-class/cezanne-and-the-modern and http://globaldigitalmodernisms.weebly.com/in-class/jean-rhyss-paris.
Your posting must be at least 250 words. Remember to cite all sources you consult using correct MLA format.
You must include a list of works cited at the end of your blog posting acknowledging all sources you have consulted, including webpages. You must use your own words and cite all sources appropriately in all of your work this term.
Blog Posting Instructions
Throughout the term you will post at least four blog entries on four of the six dates indicated on the syllabus. You must also comment on at least one of your peers’ blog postings on four of the six dates on the syllabus. Our blog will be limited to members of the three sections of English 1102: Victorian Technology and Art and not available to the public. The instructor will provide an assignment for the postings indicated on the syllabus, but you are also welcome to post and comment whenever you feel inspired to do so.
Your blog entries must be at least 250 words and analyze quotations from the text as well as an image, sound, or video clip that you will include or indicate with a link.
Blog postings provide an opportunity to shed light on the contexts that inform the texts we will read. You should build from the topics we have addressed in class and in our projects, taking the readings a step further and posing questions for your classmates to consider. The blog is also a place where you can receive feedback as you develop your projects.
You must use MLA citation format to acknowledge the sources to which you refer or the images or media you incorporate in your posting.
The four required blog entries and comments count as part of your participation grade for the course.
Blog postings are due at least 30 minutes before class. To be counted as one of your four required comments, a comment must be posted within 24 hours of a blog's due date. You can post additional comments at any time.
For MLA style see https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/
For quoting practices see: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/563/01/
and https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/03/
For avoiding plagiarism see: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/930/10/
Blog Rubric
The instructor will evaluate your blog postings using the following five point rubric, ranging from 0 (no credit) to 4 (exceptional). Grades will be posted on Gradebook on T-Square.
Adapted from http://www.samplereality.com/2009/08/14/pedagogy-and-the-class-blog/