Due Thursday 6/4
For this project you will pick two or three items from any magazine(s) that catch your interest, enter them in the course timeline, and then write a brief analytic blog post about them (2+ paragraphs). The idea is to familiarize yourself with the spirit of some of magazines and the types of materials, which vary greatly, and to start writing critically about their commonalities and differences.Throughout this week, you should spend some time (a good couple of hours at least) browsing through or searching the magazines at the Modernist Journals Project (http://modjourn.org). There might be a certain subject that interests you—such as gender, nationality, aesthetics—or perhaps you're drawn toward a genre like poetry or toward graphical elements like advertisements or drawings. Find two or three items that you'd like to share or discuss, and take down the following information:
- Magazine title
- Magazine issue
- Item title (if it doesn't have one, then give it one)
- Item page
- Item author
- Any keywords or categories that describe the item(s)
You will enter this information into the timeline and then write a 2 paragraph blog post about it, which we'll learn how to do in our computer lab session on Wednesday.
As always, though you only need to do what's laid out in the assignment, you should feel free to write as much as you like if you're feeling inspired or need more space to say what you want.
