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Class 4 Notes

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Preliminary Class Business

 

Readings for Class 2
 Readings for Class 3
  • Belle Lettres": Hugh Blair, excerpt from "Taste" , Lecture II in his Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres (1787)
  • "Close Reading": Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, "Introduction" to Understanding Poetry (1938)
  • "Critique" vs. "Surface Reading":  Stephen Best and Sharon Marcus, "Surface Reading: An Introduction" (2009)
  • Toward "Distant Reading": N. Katherine Hayles, excerpt on "Scale Matters" from How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis (2012)

Readings for Class 4

1. Reading in the Digital Age: Toward "Distant Reading"

 

  • Nicholas Carr, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" (2008)
    • See also Nicholas Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains (W. W. Norton, 2010)
  • N. Katherine Hayles, excerpt on "Scale Matters" from How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis (2012)

 

 

2. The "New Criticism" and "Close Reading"

 

 Big Bang of Literary Theory, Early to Mid 20th Century

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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