Preliminary Class Business

• Enrollment
• Getting started on your portfolios.
• Readings for next class.
•  Practicum 3: Text Analysis 1  Instructions for this practicum | Folder of exercises on Student Work page

1. Finding Digital Texts

• Your practicums for "finding digital texts" (assignment) -- Student Work Folder

2. "Distant Reading"

•  Readings for today:
• Franco Moretti, Graphs, Maps, Trees (Verso, 2005), pp. 1-33, 91-92 
• Ryan Heuser and and Long Le-Khac, "A Quantitative Literary History of 2,958 Nineteenth-Century British Novels: The Semantic Cohort Method" [PDF] (Stanford Literary Lab Pamphlet #4) (2012)

• Other resources that might be used in discussion:
• A "Close Reading" tip sheet [PDF] used in English courses today.
• Fernand Braudel and Annales historiography (e.g., Table of Contents [PDF] from The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (1976)