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Overview
The first nine classes of the course focus on selected readings designed to start students thinking about the relation between literary interpretation and other paradigms of understanding--including graphing, mapping, modeling, gaming, and so on. These classes will run in normal discussion mode. From Class 10 on, the course will enter full workshop mode where everything is geared toward facilitating–and keeping the rest of the class informed about--team projects. Some of the workshop classes will feature presentations of projects-in-progress; others will be "studio" sessions giving team members a chance to work side by side.
= Solo assignment 
= Team assignmentClass 1 (Monday April 2) — Introduction [Class Notes]
Class 2 (Wednesday April 4) — Graphs [Class Notes]
- Franco Moretti, Graphs, Maps, Trees (Verso, 2005), pp. 1-33
Class 3 (Monday April 9) — Maps [Class Notes]
- Franco Moretti, Graphs, Maps, Trees, pp. 35-64, 91-92
Reza's Response | Kaitlin's Response
Respondents assigned for readings on various dates in classes 3-8. (For details, see Assignments.)
Class 4 (Wednesday April 11) — Modeling (1) [Class Notes]
- Willard McCarty, Humanities Computing (Palgrave MacMillan, 2005), pp. 20-37
Class 5 (Monday April 16) — Modeling (2) [Class Notes]
- Willard McCarty, Humanities Computing (Palgrave MacMillan, 2005), pp. 37-72
Alice's Response | Priscilla's Response
Create a bio for the course wiki, including your intellectual interests. (For details, see Assignments.)Class 6 (Wednesday April 18) — Gaming (1) [Class Notes]
- Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman, Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals (MIT Press, 2004):
- pp. 29-37
- pp. 71-83
- pp. 94-99
- pp. 101-5
- pp. 11-13
- pp. 106-15
Sheela's Response | Dan's Response
Teams to be formed in class on this date.
Class 7 (Monday April 23) — Gaming (2) [Class Notes]
- Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman, Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals (MIT Press, 2004):
- pp. 363-419
- pp. 490-501
Class 8 (Wednesday April 25) — All of the Above Versus Narrative: How Do We Really Understand (Interpret) Anything? [Class Notes]
- H. Porter Abbott, The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002), chapters 1-3
Class 9 (Monday April 30) — Close Reading and Its Alternatives: Graphing, Mapping, Modelling, Gaming, or Narrating "Ars Poetica" and "Ode on a Grecian Urn" [Class Notes]
- Archibald MacLeish, "Ars Poetica" (1926)
- John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (1819)
- Cleanth Brooks, "The Heresy of Paraphrase" and "Keats's Sylvan Historian," from his Well Wrought Urn (1947)
At least one team-meeting outside class by this date to brainstorm. (For details, see Assignments.)
Class 10 (Wednesday May 2) — Workshop [Class Notes]
Choose a literary work (or part of a work) that the team project will "interpret"; present work and justification to class. (For details, see Assignments.)
Class 12 (Wednesday May 9) — Workshop [Class Notes]
Brainstorm two or more ideas for the team project based on the chosen literary work; present ideas to class for critique. (For details, see Assignments.)
Class 14 (Wednesday May 16) — Workshop [Class Notes]
Create annotated bibliography. (For details, see Assignments.)
Class 15 (Monday May 21) — Workshop [Class Notes]
Write 4-page research report on one of the items in your annotated bibliography. (For details, see Assignments.)Class 18 (Monday June 4) — Presentations [Class Notes]
Formal presentations of team projects. (For details, see Assignments.)
Class 19 (Wednesday June 6) — Presentations [Class Notes]
Formal presentations of team projects. (For details, see Assignments.)
(Monday June 10)
"Interpretive" essay due. (For details, see Assignments.)
