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Class 4 Notes
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by Alan Liu 10 years, 1 month ago
Preliminary Class Business
- Upcoming DH events
- Preview of readings and assignments for Class 5
- Practicum: "Topic-modeling by hand" or David Mimno's In-Browser Topic Modeling
- If you wish, you can download Mimno's files, then create your own .txt file of samples for his implementation of LDA topic modeling to run on
- Organization for "mock project" assignment in Class 5
- Sketch of possible mock projects due Class 6
- Your blog ideas
- How goes Twitter?
- Topic left over from last class: structure of a modern "content management system" (CMS):
- Cf., XSLT ("Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations") for XML
1. Student Text Analysis Exercises
2. Text encoding as interpretation  analysis
3. Text analysis  interpretation
- Bottom-up (starting with acts of reduction and induction) that put pressure on humanities traditions of "analysis" and "interpretation"
- Today's class: the "close" versus "distant" reading debate (the window through which literary studies is encountering data-analytical methods)
- Orientation for non-literature students to the "close" versus "distant" reading debate:
- Part of a current renaissance (or crisis) in our understanding of "reading"
- 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.
4. "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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(p. 13)
(pp. 20-21)
(pp. 14, 24)
(p. 26)
Class 4 Notes
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