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Olive by Dinah Craik and How I Didn’t Read It
As I’m sure was the norm with just about everyone coming into this project, I was rather intrigued with the idea of “not” reading a book. It’s definitely a new idea to me, all of my previous English classes having … Continue reading
Project 2: Sir Walter Scott’s “The Bride of Lammermoor”
I was attracted to the idea of practicing the art of distant reading on a Scott novel for two reasons: first, I have never before read any Scott novel and he is considered a classic and influential writer and because of the mentions … Continue reading
Not Reading About Felix Holt: The Radical
“Not reading” turned out to be not so bad. For this project, I really only found a few visualizations to be useful-and usable-but it seemed that a lot of information could be gleaned from a novel in just a few … Continue reading
Project 2: How to Not Read a Novel - Dombey and Son
For this project, I was taken off guard by the rather strange method we were given to complete the project. Instead of reading into the novel of choice at all, we simply found out its most common words and began … Continue reading
Project 2: Bryant Goetz
Finally! A term exists that describes how I have acquired 90% of my knowledge since my grandfather bought me an HP desktop…ensuring that I would forever hardwire my brain to gather information this way. This is ‘Distant Reading’ a term … Continue reading
Project 2: Little Dorrit
Image 1: Word Cloud from Wordle with 150 words Image 2: Word Cloud from Wordle with 5 most common words Image 3: Word Cloud from Voyant including stop words Image 4: Graph of relative word frequencies Throughout the whole of … Continue reading
Project2: To read or not to read “The Professor” by Charlotte Bronte… I’ll go with not to read.
My feelings towards this project have been on a roller coaster ride. When we were first instructed to read Paul Fyfe’s article on distant reading and the experiment/project he did with his class, I thought he made a very smart … Continue reading
Project 2: How ‘not’ to read: The Last Man, By Mary Shelley
How ‘not’ to read: The Last Man, By Mary Shelley Dawoud Kazimee Project 2 After doing a bit of research in the past few weeks on ‘distant reading’ I became quite interested in the theory as it is makes a … Continue reading
To Not Read The Egoist by George Meredith
The hardest thing about doing this project was not being able to read the novel assigned to me before “researching” and playing around with the text. I know this was the point, since we were doing a distant reading project, … Continue reading
“The Old Curiosity Shop” and how NOT to read it
Before starting this project, I was really excited about the idea of distant reading. I loved the idea of plugging books in and being able to know about all 60,000 novels of the 19th century. However, when I actually started, … Continue reading