We'll discuss what we found (and what we failed to find), and how we looked for things. We'll begin by each reading all the other "research diaries," asking questions about them and commenting on them in the margins, and then we'll do a "round" in which everybody will have a chance to talk about what happened, either in their own search or in those of others.
Then we'll do the same thing with the reports of what we've learned.
For next Wednesday
We'll move on to more academic sources. On the course Web site there's
now a list of general literary histories, each
of which has a treatment of our period. Choose one, and take two or three
hours to see what it offers about our period. Keep a written record of
what you learn. You won't be able to read everything about the period,
and perhaps not everything about the theatre; read the parts that look
interesting. Keep track of questions that come up for you, as you go --
especially what might seem to be dumb questions (often they're the best
kind). This time, save your report as a text, by clicking on the link from
the main 3236 page to First
Research Reports and clicking
"Add a new discussion topic." As a Subject, use the author, title and
date of your literary history, in this form:
David Daiches, A Critical History of English Literature, 1970.You don't need to include your own name: the program will do that.
Do this by Tuesday night. On Wednesday morning before class I'll print them out and we'll work with them in class.