Class Business
- Enrollment
- Further thoughts or questions about:
- research proposal?
- blog post (see Assignments)
- Readings for next class
Plan for class:
- Discussion
- Text
- Digital Data Structures
- Stranger Things
- Back to Digital Data Structures
Text
Chart from Yin Liu, “Ways of Reading, Models for Text, and the Usefulness of Dead People” (2013)
A text
Digital Data Structures (selected)
- Markup
- Relational database (“table,” “record”)
- Objects
- Key-value pairs
- Dictionaries
- Arrays
- Linked Data

Stranger Things
- Early Modern mortality table from Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star, Sorting Things out: Classification and Its Consequences
- William Wordsworth, from “Tintern Abbey”
- The New Critics (and the “Metaphysical” Poets)
- Cleanth Brooks, “The Heresy of Paraphrase” (from The Well Wrought Urn, 1947)
- John Donne, “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” (c. 1611-12)
- Structuralism & Deconstruction
Back to Digital Data Structures
- [See above]