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date topics project work reading guest speaker
8.24 introduction: literary studies in a wired world
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8.31 the Internet, the Web, and HTML subscribe to class listserv 1-9 * ; Bruce Sterling, "A Short History of the Internet"; "A Conversation with Allen Renear" (parts one and two). William Marshall, Director of Special Collections
9.7 HTML (cont.) and the Peal Collection open your account on the Student Web Server 23-32, 165-167; materials in the online W. Hugh Peal Collection: Catalog of an Exhibition, esp. "An Overview" and "Wordsworth and Coleridge." Becky Ryder, Preservation Librarian
9.14 images I: acquisition your personal homepage online Besser and Trant, "Introduction to Imaging," sections 1-12 (skim others if interested). Eric Weig, Electronic Resources Librarian
9.21 images II: manipulation
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WebMonkey's "Photoshop Crash Course," lessons 1 and 2.
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9.28 electronic scholarly editing your digital images acquired and online 147-165; Jerome McGann, "The Rationale of Hypertext." Michael Brown, Computer Science Department
10.5 markup I: SGML
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"The SGML Primer" (to be distributed).
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10.12 markup II: the TEI your transcriptions proofed and online Examine Virginia's Introduction to TEI and Guide to Document Preperation, espcially the sections on the TEI Header, Transcriptional Work, and Tagging Manuscripts. Anne Mahoney (Tufts) on text encoding
Wednesday, 11 October
3:30 PM, 327 McVey Hall
10.19 electronic resources and pedagogy
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129-145; examine Mark Twain in His Times and Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture. Gordon Hutner, Department of English
10.26 markup III: XML/XSL your transcriptions encoded in TEI and parsed Jon Bosak and Tim Bray, "XML and the Second Generation Web"; Virginia's "Introduction to XML."
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11.2 e x a m [copy here]      
11.9 markup IV: XSL (cont.)
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"XSL Transformations" (skim).
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11.16 search engines and metadata your XML conversion and XSL stylesheets completed 11-22; John Unsworth, "The Scholar in the Digital Library." Robert Tannenbaum, Director of Academic Computing Services
11.30 electronic resources and research
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115-128; examine the Electronic Beowulf, the William Blake Archive, and the Crystal Palace simulation. Kevin Kiernan, Department of English
12.7 electronic literature and literary theory
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169-186; examine recent contents of the electronic book review.
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* Unless otherwise indicated, all page numbers refer to Browner, et al. Literature and the Internet: A Guide for Students, Teachers, and Scholars. New York: Garland, 2000.