Today!... I think I have decided to do my project on two poems by Julio Cortazar. Since I really liked Axolotl, I decided to research him further. All the poems that I have read by him so far have simply worded narratives that seem very matter of fact, but have supernatural or odd endings. This seems to fit into what we have discussed about Latin American Literature and magical realism. Next I need to start getting more biographical information from reliable sources and writing my biography of Cortazar.

12/6/06...
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/cortaz.htm
Page about Julio Cortazar

Author: Who wrote the website?--no author

Audience: Who is the site written for?--not too easy language, not to hard, juuuust right...

Scholarship: Is this scholarly material?-- many recommended works, info accurate, but advertisements on sides.

Bias: What is the author’s point of view?--no bias on author, but trying to get people to go to amazon.com

Currency: Is the information current?--2002 copyright

Links: Where do the links take you?--one link not found

Final Assessment: Will you use this site in your research? Why?--probably not because it has no author and links not great, also it has a lot of ads.

12/4/06...Today in class we began researching our final project in the library. I decided to concentrate on one author's poetry. I found a really great anthology of 2oth Century Latin American Poets, I should be able to find an auther out of there. I investigated a few different authors--mostly ones I had heard of-- like Borges and Marquez. I haven't made any final decisions on an author yet, but I definately want to do my project on a poet and find some sort of theme or symbol they use often and work on that.