Craig Stroupe
Associate Professor of Digital Writing, Literature, and Design (DWLD);
Director of Graduate Studies, English MA Program

Department of English, Linguistics, and Writng Studies | 1201 Ordean Court # 420 | University of Minnesota Duluth | Duluth, MN 55812 | 218-726-6249 | fax 218-726-6882 | cstroupe@d.umn.edu

 

ideas

This page collects critical ideas and cultural topics from courses I teach at the University of Minnesota Duluth.

A B C
Academic, Academia
Author Function (Foucault)
Base and Superstructure (Marx) (print handout)
Beginnings (Landow/Said)

Believing and Doubting Game
(Peter Elbow)
Black box vs white cube
Buildings, Likable (Winifred Gallagher)
Car diagram ("society")
Cinematography, Editing, Miise-en-Scene (Psycho)
Cognitive Mapping (Fredric Jameson)
Community Building on the Web (Amy Jo Kim)
Constructionism, Materialism, Idealism,
Critical
Critical Focus
Cubism (as Web-site design theory)
Culture
Culture, Field of (Bourdieu)
Cultural Codes
Cultural Work

D E F
Definitions
Diachronic/Synchronic
Dialectical Thinking and Moral Positions
Dialogic Narrative (Mikhail Bahktin)
Diaogical Tension and Meaning (Fallout 3() Diegesis
Discourse (James Kinneavy)
Discourse to Categorize Literary Theories (Kinneavy) Discourse (Iconic vs. Elaborated)
Displacement
Elaborated Discourse
Ethos
Field of Culture (Bourdieu)
Form as World View (Mikhail Bahktin)
Free Culture (Lawrence Lessig)

G H I
Gender and Sexuality Resources
Glocalization
Great Gatsby in Duluth
History
History and Time
Iconic and Elaborated Literary Styles (.doc)
Idealism, Constructionism, Materialism
Identity
ideology
Informational vs. Literary Discourse
Intertextuality

J K L
Liberal Humanism (pdf)
Literature, the Place of
Logos

M N O
Manifestos, Theory of Method or "CATTt" (Greg Ulmer)
Materialism, Idealism, Constructionism
Scott McCloud's 6 Transitions(image)
Scott McCloud's Pyramid of Visual Styles(image)
New Media Tropes
Narrative Theory of Discovery (Hayden White)

P Q R
Pathos
Picture Book
Plot
Position
Postcards (Intellectual Postcards)
Professional-Managerial Class (PMC)
Psycho: Cinematography, Editing, Miise-en-Scene
Ranchers and farmers (range wars)
Repetition of Images
Representational Space
Rhizome

S T U
'Scape
Scholarship as Authorship
Scholarly Tropes (semiotic square)
Sentimentality (Fisher, Rousseau) .pdf
Sexuality, Gender and Resources
Story
Subjectivity vs. Identity
Synchronic/Diachronic
Theory (Uses of): Einstein's Compass
Time and History
Totem-Pole Model of Page Design
Trope
Unintended Consequences (Starlings)

V W X Y Z

Visual Hierarchy
Web Design as Design (Siegel's "We Felt Like Pirates")
White cub vs black box
Oscar Wilde Resources
Writing for the Web (12 Quick Principles)
Writing in Layers (1)

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