Class 2 Notes


Preliminary Class Business

 

 


1. "Close Reading"

 

What is close reading?

 

Some resources for studying "close reading"

 


2. Distant Reading

 

Franco Moretti

 

Background: Annales History

 

[What seems to you most interesting or productive in Moretti's approach?]

 

 

[What is most problematic?]

 

 

[What disappears from sight in our reading of literature?]

 

 

[What appears?]

 

 

[(Moretti, Graphs, Maps, Trees, p. 35) ("Style, Inc.," pp. 139, 152-53): Not "what is distant reading?" but "what does distant reading do"?]

 


3. Toward Future Classes