Archive for October, 2006

Corridos, games, lies….Literature?

October 11th, 2006

Professor Sherwood keeps pushing the limit of what we think is literature. I always knew a novel was literature and I always knew poems were types of literature, but songs or corridos? It is very interesting how Sherwood is pushing us to look into the words and really grab the meaning inside. […]

House of Spirits (Part 1)

October 11th, 2006

This book is one of the easiest books to get sucked into. Once you start reading it, the book is so hard to put down. Part of it, I believe, is because of the crazy nature of everything going on. Are we reading about humans? Or are we reading about another […]

The first electronic poem

October 11th, 2006

The electronic poem did not really do anything for me what so ever. It showed many words that were arranged in alphabetical order, starting with A’s and moving to the Z’s. The words came from every direction, top, bottom, left, right, ECT. This was a distraction as well as the words being […]

Electronic Poem of lies

October 11th, 2006

I really enjoyed the digital literature of lies. It was very interesting how the creator of the website could turn a list of lies into a form of literature. It was also surprisingly meaningful as well, unlike the random words of the digital literature game. The lies seemed like they have been […]