For theses AND/OR presentations, remember to connect with the issue of value: good/bad. Options?

Your group presentation should have a focus / coherence, almost like a thesis. It SHOULD NOT come off as a sequence of general summaries (“Next we read … X”). Discuss this purpose and focus first. Then choose texts as examples. And only then worry about building the slide show.

In our first week of class, we talked about Barbara Herrnstein Smith's framework (value is produced through evaluation, based on tacit assumptions and asserted in a way that has salience depending upon, x, y, and z. Consider revisiting this reading and our application to Instapoetry link.

Eagleton suggests “good” literature is complicated by time period / ideology. What a Romantic might value would not satisfy a Modernist, etc.

Cage and Duchamp theorize and demonstrate how certain works can themselves challenge and maybe change the very criteria of evaluation in their spheres. What about e-lit? Is the e-lit you explored similarly experimental?

Perhaps the only “bad” answer to questions around value is saying: “it's all subjective” – a conclusion that really says nothing.