• 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)

 

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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

 

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2. Mapping

• 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:

 

 

 

• Your StoryMap practicums
• Lacie Smith
• Alan's exercises

 

• 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)

 

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3. GIS (Geographic Information Systems)

 

• Google Earth (and its tools)

 

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

 

• Map resources
• Some mapping tools

 

• 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

 

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4. Mapping in Digital History