A bout this project within a larger project
The main idea to contribute another module to the multimedia world of UVPress is the result of an ongoing research project through which many Internet users are invited to define and develop the usefulness and multidisciplinary character that Internet provides.
The web page you are visiting is the result of my self-learning process within my PhD course ‘Internet: a tool for literary research’, directed by Doctor Vicente Forés López and supported by the context of a larger project called 'UVPress'.
The UVPress is a research and education project using the Internet as its main tool that started within the English Department of Universitat de Valčncia with the publishing of the first web page designed by Doctor Vicente Forés in 1995.
The main objective of this project is to offer the possibility to study, analyze and publish academic research papers as web pages in order to make them accessible to any interested internet user, contributing to the content and feedback of the Net. In order to achieve this goal, UVPress facilitates students both the tools and the theoretical as well as practical background that enables them to self-publish their own web-page during their learning process.
It is interesting to notice that, as a consequence of the new possibilities the Internet is offering, the teaching/learning process is changing. The new learning process usually implies a mixture of self-learning and distance learning and personalized relations through which Internet is changing teaching and scholarship in the humanities. In fact, an increasing number of degrees and courses, as this one, are now available for distance learning, providing new opportunities for learners but also for teachers.
The virtual library UVPress has become offers its visitors an unlimited amount of texts, information and opinions on relevant authors, resources and tools as well as literary texts based both on the contributions of important scholars, universities library resources and relevant researchers, and on the extraordinary contribution of students, who thus increase and update the UVPress archives.
Here, I am presenting one of the multi media modules that makes UVPress what it is. My contribution to the larger project the UVPress is the result of a double purpose. On the one hand, I intend to offer a commentary on the Internet as a useful tool for humanities in general, for literary research in particular. This commentary combines some theoretical background UVPress offers on the subject, together with my first-hand experience when compiling information to carry out my modest contribution to the UVPress virtual library: some insights on the topic of Madness in the Renaissance, in El Quijote and in King Lear.
I would like to highlight that this is the first time I experience writing hypertext. I understand that hypertexts are an excellent way to interact with readers, apart from the universe of possibilities they represent. I hope that, if you do not find the choices I give you useful, at least they can be one little step towards your ultimate goal.
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Academic year 2004/2005
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