Choose a text you have enjoyed reading in a past literature class. If it is a longer text, choose a short passage approximately 15-30 lines long. The purpose of this assignment is for you to practice your HTML coding and begin to think about how to represent aspects of textual meaning in digital form. Choose your text very wisely after considering the assignment requirements below.

Your web page should have the following components:

• A thumbnail image linked to a full-sized image on another web site or on the CSUN server. Your image should somehow be illustrative of or shed light on some aspect of the meaning of the text. Don’t think clever or witty association. Think scholarly illumination. Next to the thumbnail image, you should give information about the source web site and the image. Somewhere on the web page there must be an explanation of what information the reader is expected to gain from it.
• An analysis of the meaning of the short passage you have chosen (a “close reading”), in which you discuss what it says and how it says it, getting into such matters word choice, tone, metaphors, imagery, rhythm, physical condition. You may also wish to include discussion of the historical context. You do not have to do all of these; choose what is relevant to your interpretive position on the text. This part should be the equivalent of about two to three typed pages in 12-point font.
• Your name, a statement that you are responsible for the content of the web page and that no one is to quote it or use your ideas without proper attribution, a statement that it is an assignment for our course, and a link to the course web site.

Your web page should be complete by Wednesday, 19 October. Details about how to turn in your assignment will be added here before then.