For my project 3 I'm spoofing Dubliners by James Joyce, using three shorts stories that take place in morgantown. I'm likely going to photocopy handwritten pages to put into the internet. For this I'm designing my own algortithm using "winter" "twilight" and a lot of epiphanies. (Like in Joyce). I will also make it a point to mention Ireland or politics in Ireland in every story, even though the stories won't be about Ireland at all--part of the "Joyce Algorithim"
The titles of the three short stories are:
1) "Couch Burners Anonymous"
2) "Coming Home: The Story of Bob Huggins"
3) "My Quest for an MBA"
The Joyce Algorithim will be dealing with the concept of the paragraph, and through that, the whole story.
so A) A set of rules apply to each story as a whole (for example, every story contains 3 epiphanies)
and B) Each paragraph will undergo a specific translation (every first paragraph will introduce the story as happening at twilight)
These two main points will work together to form two, normal, basically journalistic (word?) articles into comments about the "Modern City" similar to James Joyce.
I'm also planning on hand writing the TRANSLATED text and posting it as a scanned image, just because it's another form of translation that I feel works very well to try and represent some of the same ideas about decay and such as is seen in Dubliners.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
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MMk..I can't really say anything about the text itself at the moment, since it's not right in front of me, but checking out what you've written about the algorithm itself it seems like it's going to be a good one (depressing vs funny and your use of the paragraph itself). I'm not sure the algorithm will be apparent when looking from the source texts (Joyce's stuff) to what you have written, but I think that that is good. I think that people familiar with his works will see the similarities and your project will end up working out.
This specific project has a strong sense of authorship placed on you - since you are writing the text and you are creating the algorithm yourself-its all completely yours and no one else's (with the exception that you've taken the overall idea..but still.) I think the text will produce some sense of 'new' meaning...if only taking something (an idea about a style of writing) and using that to create original texts. It is interesting that you can take a style of writing (Joyce's for example) and go with that but it is completely original.
To Do:
write your texts! (haha)
meta text
Make sure they are "long" enough..whatever that means..
Good job! It sounds entertaining.
sounds like you are going "all out" for this project. it is hard to imagine what the final project will be, but you seem to have a variety of interesting manipulations in mind. i am anxious to see your final project.
Aftet reading your ideas and then talking with you in class, it sounds like you have good ideas for your project. I am really interested in seeing the final project, and working out how the algorithms are used. Sounds really interesting!
Good luck, ERin
Louie: OK, an ambitious and wonderful sounding project. Keep in mind that you could just use material you generated in class (I love the heroes googlism, for example). But yes, the Dubliners spoof is great (which for me plays on the internet/technical notion of a spoof as well). Since the focus in Joyce is the experiencing self, your displacing that through language - in a way, it makes a serious critical point about the embedding of the self into language (which becomes more and more evident in Joyce, see Finnegan's Wake). This has similarities to other writers' rewritings/writings through of source text. As I note, this is tremendously ambitious. Perhaps start with a page from each story?
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