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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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There has been much discussion in recent years, on this campus and elsewhere, about the death of the book. Digitization and various forms of electronic media, some critics say, are rendering the printed text as obsolete as the writing quill. In this subject, we will examine the claims for and against the demise of the book, but we will also
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This course will acquaint the student with some of the ancient Greek contributions to the Western philosophical and scientific tradition. We will examine a broad range of central philosophical themes concerning: nature, law, justice, knowledge, virtue, happiness, and death. There will be a strong emphasis on analyses of arguments found in t
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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The Creole languages spoken in the Caribbean are linguistic by-products of the historical events triggered by colonization and the slave trade in Africa and the "New World". In a nutshell, these languages are the results of language acquisition in the specific social settings defined by the history of contact between African and European pe
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- haitian
- colony
- colonial
- dialect
- grench
- new world
- slavery
- lexicon
- pidgin
- culture
- religion
- music
- literature
- ethnicity
- text
- syntax
- morphology
- uniformity
- ebonics
- africal-american english
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This seminar provides intensive study of exciting texts by four influential American authors. In studying paired works, we can enrich our sense of each author's distinctive methods, get a deeper sense of the development of their careers, and shake up our preconceptions about what makes an author or a work "great." Students will get an oppor
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This seminar provides intensive study of texts by two American authors (Herman Melville, 1819-1891, and Toni Morrison, 1931-) who, using lyrical, radically innovative prose, explore in different ways epic notions of American identity. Focusing on Melville's Typee (1846), Moby-Dick (1851), and The Confidence-Man (1857) and Morrison's Sula (1
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This class introduces studies in the algorithmic manipulation of type as word, symbol, and form. Problems covered will include semantic filtering, inherently unstable letterforms, and spoken letters. The history and traditions of typography, and their entry into the digital age, will be studied. Weekly assignments using Java® will explore n
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- visual arts
- computation
- digital artworks
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- aesthetics
- signal processing
- interaction design
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- transformations
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Focus: What can we believe when we read an autobiography? How do writers recall, select, shape, and present their lives to construct life stories? Readings that ground these questions include selections from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Linda Brent (pseudonym for Harriet Jacobs), "A Sketch of the Past" by Virginia Woolf, Notes of A Native Son by James Baldwin, "The Achievement of Desire" by Richard Rodriguez, The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston, and "Our Secret" by Susan Griffin. Discussion, papers, and brief oral presentations will focus on the content of the life stories as well as the forms and techniques authors use to shape autobiography. We will identify masks and stances used to achieve various goals, sources and interrelationships of technical and thematic concerns, and "fictions" of autobiographical writing. Assignments will allow students to consider texts in terms of their implicit theories of autobiography, of theories we read, and of students' experiences; assignments also allow some autobiographical writing.
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This course explores the properties of non-linear, multi-linear, and interactive forms of narratives as they have evolved from print to digital media. Works covered in this course range from the Talmud, classics of non-linear novels, experimental literature, early sound and film experiments to recent multi-linear and interactive films and games. The study of the structural properties of narratives that experiment with digression, multiple points of view, disruptions of time, space, and of storyline is complemented by theoretical texts about authorship/readership, plot/story, properties of digital media and hypertext. Questions that will be addressed in this course include: How can we define 'non-linearity/multi-linearity', 'interactivity', 'narrative'. To what extend are these aspects determined by the text, the reader, the digital format? What kinds of narratives are especially suited for a nonlinear/ interactive format? Are there stories that can only be told in a digital format? What can we learn from early non-digital examples of non-linear and interactive story telling?
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File: 21h-418-fall-2005.zip
This OER is part of OCW: From Print to Digital: Technologies of the Word, 1450-Present
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File: 24-200-fall-2004.zip
This OER is part of OCW: Ancient Philosophy
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File: 21l-705-fall-2006.zip
This OER is part of OCW: Major Authors: After the Masterpiece: Novels by Melville, Twain, Faulkner, and Morrison
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File: 24-919-spring-2004.zip
This OER is part of OCW: Topics in Linguistics: Creole Languages and Caribbean Identities
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- new world
- slavery
- lexicon
- pidgin
- culture
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- ethnicity
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- syntax
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File: 21w-765j-spring-2004.zip
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This OER is part of OCW: Expository Writing: Autobiography - Theory and Practice
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- oral presentations
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