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		<title>Syllabus: ENGL581: Digital Tools and Critical Theory.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This syllabus is indebted to just about everyone who has posted a syllabus for a DH course, and especially to Paul Fyfe, from whose draft syllabus I borrowed several readings. The syllabus itself is here as a .pdf file. As &#8230; <a href="http://tedunderwood.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/syllabus-engl581-digital-tools-and-critical-theory/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tedunderwood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18518646&amp;post=2373&amp;subd=tedunderwood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do humanists get their ideas from anything at all?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My reaction to Stanley Fish&#8217;s third column on digital humanities was at first so negative that I thought it not worth writing about. But in the light of morning, there is something here worth discussing. Fish raises a neglected issue &#8230; <a href="http://tedunderwood.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/discovery-and-hypothesis-testing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tedunderwood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18518646&amp;post=2320&amp;subd=tedunderwood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fish wins round two.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This barely deserves to be a blog post, but I can&#8217;t resist a brief critical appreciation of Stanley Fish&#8217;s second column on the digital humanities. Fish argues that digital humanists&#8217; insistence on the networked character of human communication (or even &#8230; <a href="http://tedunderwood.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/fish-wins-round-two/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tedunderwood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18518646&amp;post=2303&amp;subd=tedunderwood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MLA talk: just the thesis.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 17:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Giving a talk this morning at the MLA. There are two main arguments: 1) The first one will be familiar if you&#8217;ve read my blog. I suggest that the boundary between &#8220;text mining&#8221; and conventional literary research is far fuzzier &#8230; <a href="http://tedunderwood.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/mla-talk-just-the-thesis/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tedunderwood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18518646&amp;post=2293&amp;subd=tedunderwood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A brief outburst about numbers.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In responding to Stanley Fish last week, I tried to acknowledge that the &#8220;digital humanities,&#8221; in spite of their name, are not centrally about numbers. The movement is very broad, and at the broadest level, it probably has more to &#8230; <a href="http://tedunderwood.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/a-brief-outburst-about-numbers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tedunderwood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18518646&amp;post=2244&amp;subd=tedunderwood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why digital humanities isn&#8217;t actually &#8220;the next thing in literary studies.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 03:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s flattering for digital humanists to be interpellated by Stanley Fish as the next thing in literary studies. It&#8217;s especially pleasant since the field is old enough now to be tickled by depiction as a recent fad &#8212; as Fish &#8230; <a href="http://tedunderwood.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/why-we-dont-actually-want-to-be-the-next-thing-in-literary-studies/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tedunderwood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18518646&amp;post=2137&amp;subd=tedunderwood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What no one tells you about the digital humanities.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 06:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are already several great posts out there that exhaustively list resources and starting points for people getting into DH (a lot of them are by Lisa Spiro, who is good at it). This will be a shorter list. I&#8217;m &#8230; <a href="http://tedunderwood.wordpress.com/2011/12/15/what-no-one-tells-you-about-the-digital-humanities/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tedunderwood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18518646&amp;post=2095&amp;subd=tedunderwood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Exploring the relationship between topics and trends.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been talking about correlation since I started this blog. Actually, that was the reason why I did start it: I think literary scholars can get a huge amount of heuristic leverage out of the fact that thematically and socially-related &#8230; <a href="http://tedunderwood.wordpress.com/2011/11/18/exploring-the-relationship-between-topics-and-trends/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tedunderwood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18518646&amp;post=2053&amp;subd=tedunderwood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Identifying diction that characterizes an author or genre: why Dunning&#8217;s may not be the best method.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 20:52:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of what I&#8217;m about to say is directly lifted from articles in corpus linguistics (1, 2), but I don&#8217;t think these results have been widely absorbed yet by people working in digital humanities, so I thought it might be &#8230; <a href="http://tedunderwood.wordpress.com/2011/11/09/identifying-the-terms-that-characterize-an-author-or-genre-why-dunnings-may-not-be-the-best-method/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tedunderwood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18518646&amp;post=1987&amp;subd=tedunderwood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On transitive and intransitive uses of the verb &#8220;theorize.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a relative newcomer to digital humanities; I&#8217;ve been doing this for about a year now. The content of the field has been interesting, but in some ways even more interesting is the way it has transformed my perception of &#8230; <a href="http://tedunderwood.wordpress.com/2011/10/22/on-transitive-and-intransitive-uses-of-the-verb-to-theorize/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tedunderwood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18518646&amp;post=1915&amp;subd=tedunderwood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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