Preliminary Business

Today's readings:  (red links are to professor's annotated versions)

• "Close reading"
• Encyclopedia Britannica synopsis of "New Criticism"
• Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, "Letter to the Teacher", from their Understanding Poetry (1st ed. 1938) 
• Cleanth Brooks, "The Heresy of Paraphrase," from his Well Wrought Urn (1947) 
• "Distant Reading"
• Franco Moretti, Graphs, Maps, Trees (2005), pp. 1-33 
• Jean-Baptiste Michel, Erez Lieberman Aiden, et al., "Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books" (2011)    [paywalled; UCSB students have free access through the campus network or from off-campus through the UCSB VPN or Library Proxy server] 
  
•  Practicum: Google Books Ngram Viewer  Instructions for this practicum | Folder of exercises on Student Work page

Introduction to "Digital Humanities"

• "Map" of DH  (map-of-dh.pptx )

"Close Reading"

• Example of close reading a poem: Sir Thomas Wyatt, "They Flee From Me" (1557) 
• Professor's annotated copy of poem: close-reading-wyatt-poem.pdf
• Commentary on poem by Ian Lancashire 
• UCSB English Dept. close reading guide: close-reading-guidelines-sheet.pdf

• Why?   Click Me

"Distant Reading"

• Franco Moretti, Graphs, Maps, Trees (2005)
• pp. 1, 3-4 
• Jean-Baptiste Michel, Erez Lieberman Aiden, et al., "Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books" (2011)
• p. 176 ("The corpus cannot be read by a human")
• Your Google Books Practicum

• Why? What disappears in distant reading? What appears?    Click Me

• Miles, Josephine. Major Adjectives in English Poetry From Wyatt to Auden. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1946. Available online at http://archive.org/details/majoradjectivesi00mile 
• Radway, Janice. Reading the Romance. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1984.