As we developed a plan for organizing and presenting the Dictionary, we found ourselves reexamining our critical approaches to the works under consideration. The new context we were designing -- a space intended to let the works interact with each other and reenact the discussions and debates of Sensibility -- this context seemed to demand new approaches to reading and interpreting the works themselves. We each individually reassessed the critical strategies we had developed in our training as students of literature, and we identified weaknesses and limitations in these familiar tools.

Moreover, because the project was collaborative, our group composed an intensely focused community in which we could develop and resolve these fundamental interpretive crises. Our arguments about the appropriate organizational and presentational structure of the Dictionary thus proceeded in parallel with a rigorous and energetic discussion of the critical strategies that would be fostered by the form of the Dictionary.

• Defamiliarization
  
• Collaboration
  
• Discourse Communities
• Exhibition/Display
  
• Enactment
  
• Publication
  

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