The following are NMAC senior portfolios for the spring of 2012 developed for NMAC 4483, Professional Portfolio. They will be growing throughout the semester, and I expect to see some great work. Check them out, and leave a comment or two on their sites.
“An Encounter” is a story from James Joyce’s Dubliners. The story involves a boy—the narrator—and his friend Mahony taking a day off from school and going to the shore.
Yeats wrote: “I think that in early Byzantium [now Istanbul], maybe never before or since in recorded history, religious, aesthetic, and practical life were one, that architects and artificers . . . spoke to the multitude in gold and silver.”
In Greek mythology, Zeus visits Leda in the form of a swan, producing the sisters Helen and Clytemnestra. Yeats saw this event as the beginning of Greek civilization — what he called an “annunciation.”
This poem of 131 lines of variable length and metre was begun at Harvard in 1910 and finished during a visit to Munich in 1911. It was first published in Poetry, the June issue of 1911, and reprinted in Prufrock and Other Observations, London 1917.
Modernism, a spring 2012 section of Studies in Culture, will examine the period that is traditionally referred to as “high modernism” in continental Europe, Britain, and America primarily in literature, politics, and visual art.
Canto XIII introduces Confucius, or Kung, who is presented as the embodiment of the ideal of social order based on ethics and action.
HUMN 4460, the Senior Seminar in New Media, explores our inexorable movement from atoms to bits: from media based on the physical to that based on the movement of digital information centered around the networked computer.
