Class 4 Notes
Preliminary Class Business
- Upcoming DH events:
- Presentation by Mark Algee-Hewitt and Ryan Heuser of the Stanford Literary Lab -- Thursday, Nov. 12th, 2014, 3:30-5:30 in South Hall 2635. (and class visit by them earlier that day)
- DH Events and Calls for Papers
- Preview of readings and practicum for Class 5
- "Mock project Prospectus" pre-assignments
- Commitments to individual or team mock project prospectuses in Class 5
- Sketch of possible mock projects due Class 6
- Your blog ideas
- How goes Twitter?
1. The Idea of Text Analysis
- Text as "Allographic" Object,"Massively Addressable" Object, "Topology," and Database
- Text Analysis - Top Down (Text Encoding)
- Text Analysis - Bottom Up
- Starting with acts of reduction and induction that put pressure on humanities traditions of "analysis" and "interpretation":
- "Bag of words" approach
- Counting
- Clustering
2. Text Analysis Practicums
3. From "Close Reading" to "Distant Reading"
- Part of a current renaissance (or crisis) in our understanding of "reading"
- Distorted by void in prior large-scale, quantitative, and/or systematic interpretive methods in literary studies.
- Josephine Miles. Major Adjectives in English Poetry From Wyatt to Auden. University of California Press, 1946. Available online at http://archive.org/details/majoradjectivesi00mile
- John F. Burrows. Computation into Criticism: A Study of Jane Austen’s Novels and an Experiment in Method. Oxford UP, 1987.
- "Close Reading"
- American New Criticism:
- Cleanth Brooks, "The Heresy of Paraphrase [PDF]," from his Well Wrought Urn (1947)
- (pp. 198-99): "so wore the night"
- (pp. 196-97): poems not "statements" or "paraphrase"
- (pp. 203-204): poem's structure as painting, music, play
- (pp. 194-95): "total pattern" and "structure"
5. "Distant Reading"
- Franco Moretti, Graphs, Maps, Trees
- Opening paragraph (p. 1)
Figure 2 (p. 7)
Figure 3 (p. 10)
Figure 7 (p. 15)
Figure 9 (p. 19)
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(pp. 20-21)
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