Research the text online. Find at least three web sites that address Afternoon in a critical manner. Discuss these sites with your partner and come to some conclusions about the text and address one of the following topics:
- aporia -- endless circles or repeating lexias with seemingly no way out -- what does this do for your enjoyment of the text? for your understanding of the text?
- the act of reading -- begin with Bolter’s assertion that “Afternoon is about the problem of its own reading.”
- the difficulty with reading hypertext in general using Afternoon as a specific instance -- what is the significance of Bolter’s supposition that “Afternoon becomes an allegory of the act of reading”?
- closure -- begin with Landow’s assertion “Joyce makes the responsibility for closure, for stopping, entirely the reader’s.”
The product of this activity will be a two to five page essay that addresses the topic of your choice.
Due: Tuesday, 23 March
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