english236-w2008

Class 2 Notes

1. Close Reading (A Second Look)

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

   

• Jerome J. McGann, "Rethinking Textuality"
• Lisa Samuels and Jerome J. McGann, "Deformance and Interpretation"

2. Franco Moretti: Graphs, Maps, Trees (2005): Graphs

• Figure 1 (p. 6)
• Figure 3 (p. 10)
• Figure 7 (p. 15)
• Figure 9 (p. 19)
• Google Image results page for "graph"

3. Franco Moretti: Graphs, Maps, Trees (2005): Maps

• Figure 14 (p. 37)
• Figure 18 (p. 45)
• Figure 21 (p. 50)
• Figure 22 (p. 55)
• Mapping tools from Toy Chest
• William Wordsworth's Lake District
• "Place" Projects from English 197, "Wordsworth and Romanticism"

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