Craig Stroupe | Associate Professor of Information Design | Department of 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 provides 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)
Base and Superstructure (Marx)
Beginnings (Landow/Said)
Believing and Doubting Game
(Peter Elbow)
Buildings, Likable (Winifred Gallagher)
Cognitive Mapping (Fredric Jameson)
Community Building on the Web (Amy Jo Kim)
Critical Focus
Cubism (as Web-site design theory)
Culture
Cultural Codes
Cultural Work

D E F
Definitions
Diachronic/Synchronic
Dialectical Thinking and Moral Positions
Dialogic Narrative (Mikhail Bahktin)
Diegesis
Discourse (James Kinneavy)
Displacement
Iconic vs. Elaborated Discourse
Ethos
Form as World View (Mikhail Bahktin)
Free Culture (Lawrence Lessig)

G H I
Glocalization
History
Iconic and Elaborated Literary Styles (.doc)
Identity
ideology
Informational vs. Literary Discourse

J K L
Literature, the Place of
Logos

M N O
Manifestos, Theory of Method or "CATTt" (Greg Ulmer)
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)
Repetition of Images
Representational Space
Rhizome

S T U
'Scape
Scholarship as Authorship
Story
Subjectivity vs. Identity
Synchronic/Diachronic
Theory (Uses of): Einstein's Compass
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")
Writing for the Web (12 Quick Principles)

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