Materials for Discussion Today

• Focal Readings
• Formalist "Close Reading"
• Cleanth Brooks,
• "The Heresy of Paraphrase" [PDF] from his Well Wrought Urn (1947) 
• "Keats's Sylvan Historian" from the same book
• Boris Tomashevsky, "Thematics" [PDF] (1925) [course password required]
• Vladimir Propp, Morphology of the Folktale (1928/1968), pp. 92-93
• "Distant-Reading"
  
• Franco Moretti
• Graphs, Maps, Trees (Verso, 2005), pp. 1-33, 91-92 [purchase this book in paperback from the UCSB bookstore or elsewhere]
• "'Operationalizing': or, the Function of Measurement in Modern Literary Theory" (2013) [PDF]
• Ted Underwood
• "Seven Ways Humanists Are Using Computers to Understand Text" (2015)
• "Genre, Gender, and Point of View" (2013)
• Ryan Heuser and and Long Le-Khac, "A Quantitative Literary History of 2,958 Nineteenth-Century British Novels: The Semantic Cohort Method" [PDF] (2012)
• Algee-Hewitt, Mark, Ryan Heuser, and Franco Moretti, "On Paragraphs: Scale,Themes, and Narrative Form" (2015) [PDF]
• Matthew Wilkens, "Genre, Computation, and the Varieties of Twentieth-Century U.S. Fiction" (2016)
• Andrew Piper, "Reading's Refrain: From Bibliography to Topology" [PDF] (2013)

• Other Readings
• Chad Wellmon, "Big Humanities" (2014) (on 19th-century philology as "big data")
• Kate Singer, "Digital Close Reading: TEI for Teaching Poetic Vocabularies" (2013)
• Tanya Clement, "Text Analysis, Data Mining, and Visualizations in Literary Scholarship" (2013)
• Stanford Literary Lab (Sarah Allison et al.), "Style at the Scale of the Sentence" [PDF] (2013)