Class 1 Notes
Preliminary Class Business
Enrollment
Course syllabus online:
http://english197s2015.pbworks.com
(or navigate to it from
English Dept. web site
)
Introductions
1. Overview of Course
Overview
Background
:
"Digital humanities" (including digital literary studies)
Book studies
UCSB's strength in the area:
(
Transcriptions Center
and
LCI
Digital Cultures Project
Transliteracies Project
English 149
Idea of our English 197
Schedule
Assignments
Required Texts
2. Examples of DH
Voyant Tools
Ryan Heuser and and Long Le-Khac,
"A Quantitative Literary History of 2,958 Nineteenth-Century British Novels: The Semantic Cohort Method" [PDF]
(2012)
Matthew Jockers,
"500 Themes from a corpus of 19th-Century Fiction"
Andrew Goldstone's
site for exploring and visualizing the topic models
Franco Moretti,
"Network Theory, Plot Analysis,"
Stanford Literary Lab Pamphlet #2 (2011)
RoSE project
The Bible Visualized
Every Noise at Once