4/20 PLENARY LOG -- 4


Mark	Plenary room	an hour	27 seconds
Rusche	Plenary room	an hour	a minute
Carole	Plenary room	an hour	a minute
MichaelO	Plenary room	14 minutes a minute
pasta	Plenary room	3 minutes 3 minutes
SusanA	Plenary room	an hour	3 minutes
SamanthaW	Plenary room	31 minutes 7 minutes
A guest	Plenary room	50 minutes 37 minutes

Total: 12 people, 10 of whom have been active recently. speakers


bro says, "As for a 'standard text' think of all the Different versions 
of Blake's illuminated works. Each version could be made available on 
line and could be compared. I wouldn't have to travel between the States 
and England to see them."

RobertC says, "We can rethink it all we want. Only if it is rethought 
institutionally will there be any affects. Think about the example of 
scientific writing, where most pieces are multiply authored, but only the 
first name gets credit."
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Mark says, "for instance, the technology of typing in our comments..." 
waiting

Mark says, "inevitably changes what we say and how we say it..." 

MichaelO says, "I wonder what Stuart would say about the notion of text 
online, with his current project on *Frankenstein*?" 

bro says, "Another question. What would teaching Romanticism in an 
electronic enviroment look like? I'd like to hear from those who have 
done so or musing toward doing so.""

Mark says, "I think the question is probably more or less the same if we 
ask about teaching shakespeare or yeats on line, or do you think 
Romanticism implies ideologies that are uniquely suited/unsuited to the 
web?"


bro says, "Well, romantic notions of self and space (mutually 
constituative) are unique."

Mark says, "why don't you give us an idea what you have in mind" 

 bro says, "Students could look at romantic fashioning and the spaces 
(lake district, london, scotland...) that these selves entail."

Mark says, "i think one of the more interesting things that might happen 
in a romanticism course would be dealing with the dislocation of the 
subject- the kind of headless subjectivity Liu talked about" 

MichaelO says, "Would a 'virtual' visit of the Lake District enhance a 
student's perception and understanding of Wordworth's poetry (as a kind 
of direct question)?"

The pink guest [to Mark]: Hi aunt mark.

Carole says, " Yes, Michael, I would think so--how could it not. But it's 
not the same as actually going there and perhaps the virtuality of the 
experience could be a way of introducing ideas of representation" 
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Mark says, "One of the things we talked about doing was putting a 
quicktime vr film of dove cottage on a web page"
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>>>MichaelO, Rusche, bro, Mark, and Curran are the current speakers. 


Mark says, "and I think it's only a matter of time before we have an 
interactive cd-rom letting you walk the hill, quiz leech gatherers, etc" 
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MichaelO says, "There is definitely something worth pursuing in the 
concept of representation insofar as a poem like, say, Tintern Abbey 
implies this (re)presentation of a geographical place in one's mind"