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Emerging Genres 2008 - Web Paper 1

These are the first webpapers to emerge from Emerging Genres, a new course offered at Bryn Mawr College in Spring 2008. One month into the semester, students are writing here, most generally, about the human propensity to categorize; more specifically, about the literary categories we call "genres," and even more specifically about a particularly (prototypically novel?) object we've categorized as Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick...

Take a look around, and feel warmly welcome to respond in the comment area available at the end of each paper. What strikes, intrigues, puzzles you...what, among your reactions, might be of interest or use to the writer, or others in the class, or others who--exploring the internet--might be in search of thoughtful conversation about how we are making sense of the way literature, and literary theory, portrays the world?

 

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Rods and Cones, Occipital Lobe, Dorsal and Ventral Streams—The Specific, the General, and Everything in Between

Submitted by Christina Harview on Tue, 02/26/2008 - 10:30am

The concepts of specification and generalization are an unavoidable and innate part of human nature that have a high cognitive and social importance. However, they also have limitations which reduce our accuracy as we move up and down the orders of magnitude. In this paper, the biological and perceptual limitations of generalization and specification will be analyzed and critiqued with relation to the anatomy of the human species and then applied to the usefulness, application, and accuracy of literary genres.

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Genre and Speciation

Submitted by M. Gallagher on Mon, 02/25/2008 - 5:16pm

Genre and Speciation

 

egoodlett's picture

Moby Dick

Submitted by egoodlett on Mon, 02/25/2008 - 12:04am

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Fate vs. Free Will-Round One

Submitted by Marina Gallo on Sun, 02/24/2008 - 9:43pm

Marina Gallo

Emerging Genres

Professor Dalke

Paper One

February 23,2008

 

 

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Beginning Uncle Tom's Cabin

Notes Towards Day 12 of Emerging Genres
Beginning Uncle Tom's Cabin


Facts and Transformations

Notes Towards Day 11 of Emerging Genres

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Emergence: Biological, Literary, and ....

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Wed, 02/13/2008 - 6:46pm

Evolution and Literature:
Notes on Change and Order

Moby-Dick, The End

Notes Towards Day 10 of Emerging Genres

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