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Forum Response, Final Week
Posted in Forum on September 7, 2007| 20 Comments »
Forum Responses, Week 4
Posted in Forum on August 27, 2007| 15 Comments »
Instead of a normal forum response, please post the topic and thesis statement of your final paper. If you have your introduction worked out, go ahead and post that too.
Forum Responses, Week 3
Posted in Forum on August 21, 2007| 19 Comments »
Respond to one of the following prompts, to someone else’s post, or start a discussion thread of your own by filling out the required fields (name, email, etc.) and clicking “leave a reply” to this post.
1. Of all the different conceptions of time that you’ve read about in the past week, which one do you find the most interesting, appealing, appalling, probable, or impossible. Why?
2. Comment upon the role of (d)evolution in any of the texts we’ve considered.
3. How does Metropolis relate to the Time Machine?
4. What is one contemporary expression or remediation of time travel that appeals to you? Why?
5. Do you find it odd that Kipling wrote a poem about the transatlantic cables? Discuss.
Forum Responses, Week 2
Posted in Forum on August 13, 2007| 21 Comments »
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1. What, for you, is the most effective or appealing remediation of Frankenstein?
2. If F’s monster is an example of “technology gone wild,” what is another, more contemporary example of the same?
4. Comment on the significance of the narrative structure of the novel.
5. Comment on Romantic ideals expressed in “Kubla Kahn.”
Forum Responses, Week One
Posted in Forum on July 31, 2007| 19 Comments »
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1. The Enlightenment: discuss.
2. Frankenstein was Mary Shelley’s “Modern Prometheus” in 1818. Who might be considered a “Modern Prometheus” today? Elaborate.
3. (Do you) take issue with Rousseau, La Mettrie, Kant, or Shelley(?)
30C: Major Works of European Literature 