• Sign-up sheet for your preferred email addresses
• Enrollment
• Attendance & Grading policy
• Reminder to purchase Franco Moretti's Graphs, Maps, Trees

• Introduction to working on the Student Work site for this course

• Wiki membership (example of invitation to join "workspace")

• The nature of a wiki and "Writer" level user permissions

• Basic editing, linking, and uploading procedures

• Wiki editing help available in sidebar of site
• Using templates and folders
• "Page history" (versioning) feature

• Instructions for Class Bio assignment (due by next class)

• (disclaimers)

• Process for creating a bio

• Content and tone of the bio

• Questions?

   

• Remembering the "New Criticism" in 20th-Century Literary Studies:
• Encyclopedia Britannica synopsis of "New Criticism" | Michael Delahoyde, brief synopsis of New Criticism
• John Crowe Ransom, "Criticism, Inc." (1937) (read only sections IV and V)
• Cleanth Brooks, "The Heresy of Paraphrase [PDF]," from his Well Wrought Urn (1947)
• Example Poems and Critical Readings:
• Sir Thomas Wyatt, "They Flee From Me" (1557) [commentary by Ian Lancashire]
• John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (1819) [commentary by Cleanth Brooks]
• Archibald MacLeish, "Ars Poetica" (1926) [commentary by various critics]
• Introducing "Distant Reading" in 21st-Century Literary Studies:
• Franco Moretti, Graphs, Maps, Trees (2005), pp. 1-4
• Jean-Baptiste Michel, Erez Lieberman Aiden, et al., "Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books" (2011) (paywalled; UCSB students have free access from UCSB campus or Library Proxy server)
  
• Practicum: Google Ngram Viewer Instructions for this practicum | Folder of exercises on Student Work page

Course "practicums" are hands-on, small-scale exercises that ask students to experiment at a beginner's level with the tools of the digital humanities.  Each practicum should be completed before class, resulting in a "souvenir" of the exercise left on the Student Work site. (General instructions for practicums)

• What did you find?
• What possible problems are there with this method / technology?  (E.g.)

• Class 3