tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995656278943969677.post7323790680646192675..comments2011-06-08T19:27:01.538-07:00Comments on Catching up with Life: "The Sisters" By James Joyce: Evolution of Secondary SourcesAshley Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06342466918032123179noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6995656278943969677.post-88964061028066673012011-06-06T14:06:18.043-07:002011-06-06T14:06:18.043-07:00I liked the opening (though an epigraph can be bet...I liked the opening (though an epigraph can be better formatted as set apart somehow). This is an important topic and I'm glad that you are addressing it. <br />--The generalizations about there being so much info on any topic on the Internet are not interesting or unexpected in any way. I would more quickly move to your main claim: "The evolution of secondary sources is changing just as our modes of interpretation and ways of reading the text is changing. Secondary sources are changing from the formal to informal, from inactive to interactive, and from unsocial to social."<br />--That is a great claim, but I think you need to come through more strongly in contrasting traditional scholarly sources with the others that you used. Right now, it isn't all that clear that you found valuable info about the setting via a social, online source (the woman in Dublin) and via a traditional scholarly source (an article about Dublin back in the day). And be careful about claiming too readily that you can get all the same info from online or social sources. That's a claim that would be hard to believe or to prove, and I don't think it is necessary to your larger point about the general nature of secondary sources changing.<br />--Can you find a source that talks about the legitimacy of fanfiction or other kinds of social/informal engagement with literature? How does this accomplish something similar to or as important as traditional literary research or writing? <br />--I wish you hadn't dropped the links and references from your prior draft that you refer to obliquely in this draft.<br /><br />A solid draft to build upon.Gideon Burtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08282494104976426309noreply@blogger.com