A note on the image:

background image: The background image is from Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio.

framing image: This is an edited copy of the baground image.

Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio

Provides the nexus-genesis. Maps. The book of the Grotesque--grotesquness is the result of closed-system thinking.

The Arcades Project Project is part of Heather Marcelle Crickenberger's doctoral dissertation entitled "The Structure of Awakening": Walter Benjamin and Progressive Scholarship in New Media which was defended and passed on June 27, 2007 at the University of South Carolina. The committe members are as follows: John Muckelbauer, Ph.D, Judith James, Ph.D., Dan Smith, Ph.D, Brad Collins, Ph. D., and Anthony Jarrells, Ph.D. Copyright 2007 by Heather Marcelle Crickenberger. All rights reserved.