I-Story

I remember reading in Monatoya's book The Strangeness of Beauty about an early twentieth-century Japanese form called the I-story, basically a wandering sort of diary/autobiography people would work on for years. I don't know much about it, but could it be a historical example of something resonant with today's blogs?

Prospectus Ideas

I'd like to get my three blogs approved as a thesis, and need a good prospectus to do so. Some thoughts on how to justify it:

1) Remind readers that new media needs our attention. What the department gets out of this is being able to say they really are trying to be current, plus a potentially valuable critical introduction to prove it.

2) Talk about specific possibilities of the genre (what are the implications of hypertext, for example? what does the segmentation into small pieces mean?). How will I be playing with and stretching the genre as I write?

3) Address concerns about revision by talking about it as a longitudinal process.

4) Discuss the cultural resonance of the form of the project I'm doing (theory on multiplicity of selves, post-modern structural experimentation, etc.)

Time Travel

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