This page will be home for a searchable database of critical ideas from English, composition, cultural studies, and information design to support my classes at the University of Minnesota Duluth. What follows are a few sample pages.


A B C
Author Function (Foucault)
Beginnings (Landow/Said)
Believing and Doubting Game (Peter Elbow)
Buildings, Likeable (Winifred Gallagher)
Cognitive Mapping (Fredric Jameson)
Community Building on the Web (Amy Jo Kim)
Cubism (as Web-site design theory)

D E F
Diachronic/Synchronic
Dialectical Thinking and Moral Positions
Displacement
Ethos

G H I
Glocalization

J K L
Logos

M N O

Manifestos, Theory of Method or "CATTt" (Greg Ulmer)
Narrative Theory of Discovery (Hayden White)

P Q R
Pathos
Picture Book
Plot
Repetition of Images
Representational Space
Rhizome

S T U
'Scape
Story
Synchronic/Diachronic
Theory (Uses of): Einstein's Compass
Totem-Pole Model of Page Design

V W X Y Z
Web Design as Design (Siegel's "We Felt Like Pirates")
Web Design, The End of (Jakob Nielsen)
Web Design: Needing Science, Receiving Art (David Walker)
Writing for the Web (12 Quick Principles)

Please contact me about any broken links or errors, or if you have suggestions for additional links on this page.