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REPORT ON THE MODERNIST FICTION WEB

Abstract

The Modernist Fiction Web has three main strands: Reading Fiction, with about 60 detailed files on different narrative elements, especially as they become more sophisticated in the 20th century, conventions, and notions of unreliability.

Modernism, with files explaining modernism and postmodernism, as well as specific historical movements.

Culture/Theory, with files on Imperialism, Orientalism, Gender, and theorists who are important for understanding modernist and postmodern literature. I will be adding cultural/historical documents and links to the web.

Pedagogical goals and strategies

This web will supplement the readings in my Modernist Fiction and my Joyce and Woolf Courses

1) to help students read narrative difficult modernist and postmodern fiction

2) to help students understand theories and culture concepts that scholars are applying to these texts

Assignments on the course syllabus are linked to the web. While the hypertextual nature of the web encourages student to browse widely, the assignments are designed for them to return to files that are hard to master.

Description of project: The best description of my project is on the web's homepage: http://acunix.wheatonma.edu/rpearce/Modernism/home.html

Evaluation procedures

The project is being, and will continue to be, evaluated in the following order:

1. I am sending my url to scholars with various interests in both the scholarship and the teaching of modernist fiction. This worked very well for my Multicultural U. S. Fiction Web.

2. I have asked my students for continual feedback and will continue to revise the web throughout the semester. The web will be evaluated more formally on the final course evaluation.

Dissemination

Dissemination will inevitably follow from the scholars to whom I sent the url (when I did this for my MultiCultural Fiction Web, 4 teachers linked it to their syllabi). It will also follow by virtue of being on the internet, especially since I've included metatags, and the url is being sent by siteowner.com to 4 major search engines. In the last year I've received a number of questions asking me questions about my topics. A reporter on the Washington Globe used my definition of postmodernism, which she said was the best she'd found anywhere.

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