Proseminar: Literary Computing

David S. Miall

HC 4-27; 492-0538; email: david.miall (at) ualberta.ca

Autumn Term 2007, Thursdays 13:30-15:20
HC L-3 and Rutherford 2-03

students' websites | schedule | project | optional further reading

Schedule

Date
Activity
Links
Nov 1 Initial meeting in HC L-3 Introductions; basic web authoring; use of Dreamweaver, Putty; WinSPC3 AICT web support; test page; website setup; authoring summary (Word)
Nov 8 further web authoring techniques; web design (email me the URL of your site) Jim Kapoun (1998) on web evaluation
Nov 15 E-texts; Concordances Project Gutenberg / Concordance
Nov 22 Concordances, continued;
Intro. to hypertext: Afternoon, by Michael Joyce (demo)		 Web concordances; Statistical analysis
Nov 29 Hypertext: principles and applications Reading and writing hypertext; Fisher, These Waves of Girls; digital editions
Dec 6 Student presentations of projects  

Project

Students will demonstrate their skills in computing by presenting a website that displays a project, either (1) a concordance analysis of a text they have chosen, or (2) a hypertext fiction or critical reading in hypertext format. The text (graphics can also be included) should be around 1000 words. Students will display their projects and talk about them during the final class session.

Optional further reading

Web design

Jim Kapoun (1998), Teaching undergrads WEB evaluation: A guide for library instruction

Concordances

TAPoR prototype of text analysis tools
British and Irish authors on the Web (includes some e-texts and concordances)

Hypertext

Electronic Literature Organization
Hyperizons: Hypertext Fiction directory
Caitlin Fisher, These Waves of Girls (2001)
Michael Joyce, Twelve Blue (1996)
David Miall and Teresa Dobson (2001). Reading hypertext and the experience of literature. Journal of Digital Information, 2.1.
David S. Miall (2003). Reading Hypertext: Theoretical Ambitions and Empirical Studies. Jahrbuch für Computerphilologie, 5, 161-178.
Jerome McGann, Radiant Textuality (1996).
J. Yellowlees Douglas, Gaps, Maps And Perception: What Hypertext Readers (Don't) Do -- one of the few considerations of the differences between reading text and hypertext.

Collections of essays:

Digital Humanities Review
Essays in Humanities Computing
TAPoR: Essays in Humanities Computing
Text Technology articles

Reference

Web design: Special characters
HTML Code Tutorial

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Document prepared October 18th 2007 / updated November 21st 2007