9/14

Reading (Theory): Historical Background

Hockey, Susan. 2004. “The History of Humanities Computing.” In Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemans, and John Unsworth, eds. A Companion to Digital Humanities. Oxford: Blackwell.
9/21

Reading (Python): Think Python Chapter 2, Chapter 3 (Pages 23-25), Chapter 8 (Pages 85-86)

Reading (Theory): General Introduction

Hoover, David L. 2013. “Text Analysis.” In Ken Price and Ray Siemens, eds. Literary Studies in the Digital Age: An Evolving Anthology. New York: MLA.

Craig, Hugh. 2004. “Stylistic Analysis and Authorship Studies.” In Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemans, and John Unsworth, eds. A Companion to Digital Humanities. Oxford: Blackwell.
 
9/28

Reading (Python): Think Python Chapter 5 (Pages 49-52), Chapter 8 (Pages 90-92)

Reading (Theory): Seminal Early Work

Burrows, John F. 1992. “Not Unless You Ask Nicely: The Interpretative Nexus Between Analysis and Information.” Literary and Linguistic Computing 7: 91-109.
 
10/5

Reading (Python): Think Python Chapter 7 and Chapter 8 (Pages 86-90)

Reading (Theory): Provocative Recent Challenge to DH, Involving Alliteration

Fish, Stanley. 2012. “Mind Your P’s and B’s: The Digital Humanities and Interpretation.” The New York Times, January 23.
 
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10/13

Reading (Python): Think Python Chapter 10

Reading (Theory): Provocative Recent Approach

Ramsay, Stephen. 2011. “An Algorithmic Criticism.” In Reading Machines: Toward an Algorithmic Criticism. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press: 1-17.
 
10/19

Reading (Python): Think Python Chapters 3 (pages 25-32) and 6 (Pages 61-65)

Reading (Theory): Classic Study with Significant Disciplinary Interest

Jordan, Ellen, Hugh Craig, and Alexis Antonia. 2006. “The Brontë Sisters and the Christian Remembrancer: A Pilot Study in the Use of the ‘Burrows Method’ to Identify the Authorship of Unsigned Articles in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press.” Victorian Periodicals Review 39: 21-45

Dridan, Rebecca, and Stephan Oepen. 2012. “Tokenization: Returning to a Long Solved Problem: A Survey, Contrastive Experiment, Recommendations, and Toolkit.”  Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: 378-82.
 
10/26

Reading (Python): Think Python Chapter 14 (pages 160-163)

Reading (Theory): Influential Recent Work

Jockers, Matthew L. 2013. “Style.” Chapter 6 of Macroanalysis: Digital Methods and Literary History. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press: 63-104.
 
11/2

Reading (Python): Think Python Chapter 14 (pages 161-162, 169)

Reading (Theory): Influential Recent Work

Jockers, Matthew L. 2013. “Nationality.” Chapter 7 of Macroanalysis: Digital Methods and Literary History. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press: 105-17.
 
11/9

Reading (Python): Think Python Chapter 11

Reading (Theory): A Respected Practitioner Reflects

Burrows, John F. 2010. “Never Say Always Again: Reflections on the Numbers Game.” Chapter 1 of Willard McCarty, ed. Text and Genre in Reconstruction: Effects of Digitalization on Ideas, Behaviours, Products and Institutions. Open Book Publishers.
 
11/16

Reading (Theory): An Influential and Controversial Approach with Interesting Visualization Issues

Moretti, Franco. 2003. “Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for Literary History–1.” New Left Review 24: 67-93.