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Class 4 Notes

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Preliminary Class Business

Enrollment
Class bios assignment (due today): Class Members page
Preview of readings & practicum for Class 5

Matthew L. Jockers, "A Novel Method for Detecting Plot" (2014)

1. "Distant Reading" (continued)

Franco Moretti, Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History (2005)

Opening paragraph (p. 1)
Figure 2 (p. 7)
Figure 3 (p. 10)
Figure 7 (p. 15)
Figure 9 (p. 19)
(p. 4)
(p. 13)
(pp. 20-21)
(pp. 14, 25n.)
(p. 26)

Other References That Might Help Class Discussion:

Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
"Annals" historical method

Fernand Braudel, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, 2nd rev. ed., 2 vols., trans. Siân Reynolds

Distant reading and individual works?

PoemViewer
Bradford Paley, TextArc
Jeremy Douglass, Cultural Analytics of Mark Rothko Paintings

2. Mapping

Readings for Today:

Franco Moretti, Graphs, Maps, Trees (2005), pp. 35-64, 91-92
Richard White, "What is Spatial History?"(2010)
Practicum: Make a "Story Map" Instructions for assignment | Folder of exercises on Student Work page

Franco Moretti, Graphs, Maps, Trees, p. 35:

Franco Moretti quote, p. 35 of Graphs, Maps, Trees

Your StoryMap practicums

Moretti on Mapping:

(pp. 35-36) "Then you make a map of the book, and everything changes.
(p. 38) "A circular system of geography, and a linear one"
(p. 39) "But in order to see the pattern..."
(p. 53) "What do literary maps do?"
(p. 54-56) "This however is not really geography" (geometry vs. geography, diagrams vs. maps)

3. GIS (Geographic Information Systems)

Google Earth (and its tools)

David Rumsey Map Collection (historical map overlays on GIS map in Google Earth)

Literary uses of GIS mapping:

Google Lit Trips

Google Lit Trip for Hemingway's story:

Big Two-Hearted River" .kmz file
Video of the Lit Trip in Google Earth: avi | wmv | mov

Compare: "Emigrants" Google Earth project by UCSB students in 2008 version of this course

4. Mapping in Digital History

Examples of GIS Digital History Projects:

China Historical GIS Project

E.g., Merrick Lex Berman, "Historical Geodata for Pre-Modern China" (2004) [PDF of slide presentation]

The Valley of the Shadow Project

Example maps

Neatline
Stanford Spatial History Project

example from Zephyr Frank

"Google Earth A Revolutionary Tool – The Photos That Sparked Protests in Bahrain"

Richard White, "What is Spatial History?"(2010)
Øyvind Eide, "The Area Told as a Story: An Inquiry into the Relationship Between Verbal and Map-based Expressions of Geographical Information," [PDF], Ph.D. thesis, King's College, 2012.

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