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Readings for next class:
- Alan Liu, “Transcendental Data: Toward a Cultural History and Aesthetics of the New Encoded Discourse” (2004) (read only pp. 49-57)
Practicum 2 (by class 5 next Tuesday): Text Encoding Exercise
Grading of Practicums (explanation)

“Distant Reading” (continued)

Franco Moretti, Graphs, Maps, Trees (2007), pp. 1-33

Quotations & Graphs from Moretti
(see on Class 3 Notes page)

Example of Block Quote:

From Arnold Stein, “Wyatt’s ‘They Flee From Me,’” Sewanee Review 67, no. 1 (1959): 28–44.

“Graph” originally abbreviation of graphic formula (OED), from graphic (< Latin graphicus, Greek γραϕικός, < γραϕή drawing or writing. Compare French graphique)

“Text” (History & Concept)

William Warner, Kimberly Knight, and UCSB Transliteracies History of Reading Group, “In the Beginning was the Word: A Visualization of the Page as Interface”

Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a Dream” Speech (Aug. 28, 1963)
Walter J. Ong, Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word (1982)

Ordered Hierarchy of Content Objects (OHCO) model of text
- Steven J. DeRose et al., “What Is Text, Really?” (1990)
  - Especially pp. 5-7
- Susan Hockey, Allen Renear, and Jerome J. McGann, “What Is Text? A Debate on the Philosophical and Epistemological Nature of Text in the Light of Humanities Computing Research” (1999)
- Wendell Piez, “Balisage Paper: Hierarchies within Range Space (From LMNL to OHCO)” (2014)
Document Object Model (DOM)
Document Object Model (DOM diagram (from Alan Liu, Friending the Past, figure 5.8)

Table from Yin Liu, “Ways of Reading, Models for Text, and the Usefulness of Dead People” (2013)

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