• Enrollment

• Announcement of Arnhold Undergrad Research Fellows program application deadline for this year.

• Class bios assignment (due today): Class Members page

• Preview of readings & practicum for Class 5

• A few of your Practicums from last class:

• Priscilla Leung's exercise
  
• Brendan McElroy's exercise
• Sarah Yim's exercise
  

   

• Phenomena that tend to disappear from view in analyzing literature:
• Text
• Author
• Work
• Canonical value ("best," "unique," "original")
• Aesthetics

• New phenomena that come into view:
• Scale (Moretti, p. 4)
• System (p. 4)
• Cycles (p. 13)
• Genres / "Form" (p. 14)
• Generations (pp. 20-21)
• ? (p. 26)

• Ernest Hemingway, "Big Two-Hearted River" (1925)
•             –Description (bookmarked example)
              –Procedural description (example)
              –Locational description (example 1: beginning of story...)
              –Locational description (example 2: leaving the road)
              –Locational description (example 3: uprooted tree in river)
              –Feeling description (example 1: near beginning of story)
              –Feeling description (example 2: "the thrill had been too much")

• Franco Moretti on "Mapping":
•         --(p. 36) "Then you make a map of the book, and everything changes.
          --(p. 38) "A circular system of geography, and a linear one"
          --(p. 39) "But in order to see the pattern..."
          --(p. 53) "What do literary maps do?"

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•         --(p. 54) "This however is not really geography" (diagrams)
          --(p. 56) "diagram of forces"
          --(pp. 63-64) End of Chap. 2: form and force

• cf.  Richard White, "What is Spatial History?" on LeFebvre's "spatial practice, representations of space, and representational space"

3. GIS (Geographic Information Systems) Mapping

4. Mapping Hemingway's Story