Doctoral Consortium Review of Cole by Bucknell

Please read these comments, and decide which comments you agree with and which you disagree with. Do any of the questions indicate that the commentator has not understood your work correctly and therefore means that you need to modify your presentation? Alternatively, how can you best answer the questions that they raise?

summary

The work seeks to provide a new analysis of Ezra Pound's Cantos by reading them as a hypertext. In particular, by removing the traditional necessity of reading them in a linear fashion, the full effect of the Cantos can be realised.

clarification

While understanding the thrust of the work, I find myself lacking a context relating to Pounds cantos. How have these cantos baffled and confounded readers?

debate

My main points of contention arising out of this are as follows: Why is it that Pounds cantos in particular are of significance? Could the work in exploring non linear reading be better served by exploring other works? While obviously the pound scholarship aspect of the work dictates a focus on Pound, is it reasonable to base a model of hypertext literature on the works of one author?

information

I get the impression the end goals of the thesis are rather vague. Do you have a plan for reducing this vagueness?

effectiveness

A bit of background about the cantos, and maybe an example, would have been useful in gaining a better udnerstanding of what studying the cantos will contribute to theories of hypertext literacy.