english236-w2008

Class 1 Notes

1. Idea of Course

• NSF IGERT grants
• China Historical GIS
• Teams/Collaboration:  a | b | c

2. Course Structure and Assignments

• Schedule
• Assignments
• Questions and Suggestions?

3. Self-Introductions

4. How to Read a Poem

1.  "Close Reading"
   1. Sir Thomas Wyatt, "They Flee From Me"
   2. Commentary by Ian Lancashire
   3. Archibald MacLeish, "Ars Poetica" (1926)
   4. Cleanth Brooks, "The Heresy of Paraphrase" and "Keats's Sylvan Historian," from his The Well Wrought Urn (1947) [in course reader]

2. Close Reading Reconsidered 
   1. British Library, MS Egerton 2711
   2. Tottel's Miscellany (1557)
   3. Jerome J. McGann, "Rethinking Textuality"
   4. Lisa Samuels and Jerome J. McGann, "Deformance and Interpretation"

For Next class:

•  Franco Moretti, Graphs, Maps, Trees (2005)