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)
Cognitive Mapping (Fredric Jameson)
Community Building on the Web (Amy Jo Kim)
Cubism (as Web-site design theory)
Cultural Work

D E F
Definitions
Diachronic/Synchronic
Dialectical Thinking and Moral Positions
Displacement
Elaborated and Iconic Literary Styles (.doc)
Ethos
Free Culture (Lawrence Lessig)

G H I
Glocalization
Iconic and Elaborated Literary Styles (.doc)
Identity

J K L
Literature, the Place of
Logos

M N O

Manifestos, Theory of Method or "CATTt" (Greg Ulmer)
New Media Grammer and Syntax
Narrative Theory of Discovery (Hayden White)

P Q R
Pathos
Picture Book
Plot
Professional-Managerial Class (PMC)
Repetition of Images
Representational Space
Rhizome

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

V W X Y Z

Web Design as Design (Siegel's "We Felt Like Pirates")
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.