Although students were told to share their personal
selves to the
extent they felt comfortable, they were not asked to "confess" in
their
hypertextual autobiographies. The autobiographical aspect of the
project was
not in place to reinforce my position as an authoritative
interlocutor. Instead,
students were encouraged to see that something "outside" of them is
also
"inside" of them. As Greg Ulmer explains about this type of
project,
Mood is the effect/form we want to test. Your tactic is to
say--this scene
outside myself, registered in history, literature (media),
memory, theory, is a
figure of something I am feeling, that perhaps I did not even
know I was
feeling until I found this scene. I claim this scene as mine. I
sign it. It is me. I
am it. (e-mail 29 September 1996)
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