I found this interesting…but I’m also a nerd. It’s about Intellecutal Property rights and a company whose sole puropse is to buy up all the patents it can get its hands on. Oh yeah, the company is funded my Microsoft, Intel, Yahoo, Google and other multi-billion dollar companies. Scary stuff. But reader beware…it’s kinda bland reading.

I had a great time. This was class one of the best I have taken at UTSA (and I’m not just trying to suck up to Dr. Lyons). The discussions were terrific, the people were fun, and the food didn’t hurt either. I’m going to continue the blog, and I hope that everyone who reads will keep reading, and more than that I hope you email me and tell me you want the ability to post, because I sure would miss the type of discussions we were having in class.

By the way, this is where the interview with Nathan Englander came from that Dr. Lyons read today. There is a link on that page that will allow you to hear Nathan read “For the Relief of Unbearable Urges.”

Good luck on your papers everyone.

For the final paper in Dr. Lyons class I thought we might be able to post our topic, and if anyone has any type of material that could be helpful we could share it. I’m doing mine on the style of writing JSF employed in his novel. In particular how similar it is to hyperlinks and the rapid editing style of movies and TV.

Also, Deborah is now offically a poster here on Hyperliterature. Welcome!!

War, Death, Famine, and Pestilence have begun shoeing their horses in preparation. Because if this will come to pass…it is the final sign the apocalypse is upon us.

Things like this really concern me. Am I the only one? Who the hell cares if Verizon Wireless loses customers of their crappy dial-up service? I don’t. Since when did the bottom lines of corporate entities become more important than the interests of US citizens? Uh, wait…don’t answer that.
As a side note I really like the term “global knowledge economy”. What an impressive euphemism for the internet. Kinda like calling a garbage man a “waste management artisan”.

Please let me know if any link is broken.

Session Notes
8/22 First Session / Kirby’s Tips / Theory / Beowulf
8/24 Poetry Terminology (Work in Progress)

Study Notes Compliments of Kirby
Terminology
General Terms
Prose and Poetry Terminology
Dramatic Terminology
Tragedy and Comedy as Dramatic Genres
Timeline containing Historical Period / Literary Period / Author / Works / Genre (Excel File)
M.A. Spreadsheet One
M.A. Spreadsheet Two

Medieval Period
Norton Historical Summary
Beowulf Notes
Beowulf Geneology (.jpg file)
Gawain Notes
Canterbury Tales Notes
C. T. Notes and Analysis
C.T. Supplementary Material
Dr. Allen’s C.T. Notes (compressed file .rar)
Mystery and Morality Plays

Sixteenth Century
Sixteenth Century Historical Background
Fairie Queen Notes
Fairie Queen Spark Notes
Hamlet Notes
Henry IV Notes
Jew of Malta / Dr. Faustus Notes
Midsummer Night’s Dream Notes
Utopia Notes
Utopia Spark Notes

Seventeenth Century
Early Seventeenth Introduction (Norton)
Restoration and 18th Century Introduction (Norton)
Ben Jonson Notes
Eliot’s Notes on Donne and other notes
Francis Bacon Notes
John Donne Notes
John Milton & Paradise Lost Notes

Eighteenth Century
Restoration and 18th Century Introduction (Norton)
Neoclassic or Long 18th Century
Gulliver’s Travels Notes
Gulliver’s Travels Spark Notes
Alexander Pope Notes
Pope Notes Essay on Criticism Notes
Rape of the Lock Spark Notes
Essay on Man
Tom Jones Notes
Tom Jones Spark Notes
Tom Jones Spark Notes Analysis

Nineteenth Century
Romantic Period
Romantic Writers Introduction Notes
Blake Poetry
Browning / Tennyson Notes
Browning / Tennyson Spark Notes
Frankenstein Barron Notes (.pdf)
Hawthorne and Romanticism
Harriet Jacobs- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Moby Dick
Moby Dick Sparknotes
Moby Dick Spark Notes Analysis Only
Shaw- Pygmalion
Huckleberry Finn Notes
Huckleberry Finn Barron Notes (.pdf)
Importance of Being Ernest Notes

Twentieth Century
Twentieth Century / Modernism / Post-Modernism
Waiting for Godot Notes
Heart of Darkness Notes
T.S. Eliot / Prufrock / Wasteland
The Sound and the Fury
Hemingway / Sun / Other Stories
M. Butterfly
Death of a Salesman / Crucible
Song of Solomon
Flannery Day O’Connor Stories
Eugene O’Neill
Tennessee Williams / Glass Menagerie / Streetcar
To The Lighthouse

Well, we discussed Mazel today. Here is a small interview with Rebecca Goldstein from Princeton’s web site. I’ll find some more stuff to post about the book later. Still pondering the notion of community. Did I not like this novel as much as some of the others because of something so obvious as gender? Was it not as provocative as some other works I’ve read because of physiology? I hope not…and I really don’t think so. I mean I’ve seen Steel Magnolias a dozen times, and I’m a fan of “The Gilmore Girls” (I hate Jess…I just hate him). Regardless, I hope some secondary material will help me see something that I may have missed.

Anyone who took a look at the post I left about remote hunting should take a look at this. What the hell is wrong with people?

Anyone who is interested in copyright law and the ongoing battle between P2P, file-sharing, and the ownership of intellectual property (and really, who isn’t) would do well to check out this book which you can download for free from the link (the default format is .pdf). The author is an interesting guy and his blog is one that I read frequently (I also read reviews about comics. Diversify…that’s my motto).

Jim just sent me this article: The Escapist. I just recieved it so I haven’t read it yet. Thanks Jim.
Just a small digression. Do stories like this make you proud to be a Texan, or what? Me…I’m going with the or what.

Also, I just sent out a few messages to people telling them about the page. For those of you who are just checking it out, the messages are sorted by date, meaning the oldest are at the bottom of the page. And if you want to be able to post, shoot me an email and I’ll send you the invite and then you’ll be able to post just like this. Woo-hoo!

Here are three works by J.S.F. The first appeared in Review of Contemporary Fiction, Spring 2000, Vol. 20 Issue 1, p8. The second appeared in the same journal on page 91. The third appeared in The Paris Review Fall 2000, Vol. 42 Issue 156, p383:
Proximity of Brad to Bradford
Imagining Giovanni’s Gift
About the Typefaces Not Used in This Edition
This one I post with a bit of trepidation. I’m not altogether certain of the authenticity of this story. I have never heard of this site. Ah well, go see for yourself:
Cravings

He also has worked that appeared in (when I find web links for any of them I’ll post them):

The Sixth Borough By: Foer, Jonathan Safran. New York Times, 9/17/2004, Vol. 153 Issue 52975, pA27, 999p
The Very Rigid Search By: Foer, Jonathan Safran. New Yorker, 06/18/2001-06/25/2001, Vol. 77 Issue 16, p116, 13p, 1c, 8bw;

And here is an article from The Jewish Week about Foer:
The New Thing

Here’s a really cool web site that I was talking about in class today: www.archive.org Enter in a web site in The Way Back Machine and it will show you its different permutations over the years. Type in www.theprojectmuseum.com and it will give you this:http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.theprojectmuseum.com April 21 2003- Dec. 14 2003 are still functioning.