Preliminary Class Business

• Enrollment (add codes in class 3);

  Sign-up sheet

• Introduction to the Instructors: Alan Liu, James Donelan

1. Idea of Course

•  Rationale
  • Literature and the New Public
    • E.g., Wikipedia
    • A Million Penguins
    • Second Life Shakespeare Globe Theatre
  • Literary Studies and the New Interdisciplinary Studies
    • E.g., NSF IGERT grants
    • UCSB Center for Nanotechnology in Society
    • NEH Digital Humanities Challenge Grants
  • Literature and the New Technology: Digital Humanities (and New Media Studies)
    • E.g., "Electronic Literature"
      • Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Screen
    • China Historical GIS
    • UCSB English Broadside Ballad Archive
  • The New Business: Business teams / Collaborative work / Collaboration technologies
• Anecdote: "What was that for?"
• Idea of this course
  • New Paradigms of Literary Study
  • Theoretical readings; Practical "Toy Chest" & Tech Help
  • Student projects from last year's version of course

     

2. Course Structure and Assignments

• Schedule 
  • Required Readings
  • Toy Chest
• Assignments 
  • Tech Support

3. For Next Class: "Close Reading" and Literary Interpretation (A Review)

• Sir Thomas Wyatt, "They Flee From Me" (1557) [commentary by Ian Lancashire]
• John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (1819) [commentary by Cleanth Brooks]
• Archibald MacLeish, "Ars Poetica" (1926) [commentary by various critics]
• Wallace Stevens, "The Snow Man" (1921) [commentary by various critics]
• Wallace Stevens, "Anecdote of the Jar" (1919) [commentary by various critics]

   

4. Self-Introductions

5. The Idea of Group Project Work