Class 4 (English 197 – Winter 2025)

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Class Business

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)
Evaluation of Practicums (explanation)
Practicum 2 (by class 5 on Thursday): Text Encoding Exercise

“Distant Reading” (continued)

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

Quotations & Graphs from Moretti (see on Class 3 Notes page)
Contrast “close reading” (Cleanth Brooks on ambiguity, paradox, irony)

Example of Block Quote:
(formatting of block quotes)

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

Example of Graph in Moretti:

Franco Moretti, Graphs, Maps, Trees, Fig. 7. — Franco Moretti, Graphs, Maps, Trees, Fig. 7.

“Graph” originally abbreviation of graphic formula (OED), from graphic (< Latin graphicus, Greek γραϕικός, < γραϕή drawing or writing. Compare French graphique)
Sir Thomas Wyatt, “They Flee From Me”
Cleanth Brooks on ambiguity, paradox, irony

“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”

Gospel of St. John in scriptio continua (from video "In the Beginning was the WordA Visualization of the Page as Interface”)

Gospel of St. John in scriptio continua (from video “In the Beginning was the Word: Visualization of the Page as Interface”)
New York Times article in scriptio continua (actual article)

Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a Dream” Speech (Aug. 28, 1963)
- Transcript of speech
- “Now is the time …” section in recording (beginning at 4:36)
- “I have a dream …” section in recording (beginning at 11:28)
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)

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

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

Alan’s slides on text encoding
and “markup” languages

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