English 205/505: Electronic Literary Seminar

Syllabus of Seminar

All coursework is shared with the entire class by the course listserv (e205) or placed in common folders within the course directory. The class will usually meet first as a seminar in the MMETS Media Classroom, then move next door for the sake of application and technical elaboration in the Computer Classroom.

7 September: IN PRINCIPIO = Anchors, BOOLEAN, C shell, domains, EMACS, file permissions, grep, HTML, Internet, journals (electronic), kermit, Lycos, MOO, Netscape, Omniweb, Perl (and Pico too), quit (as in bye, exit, leave, stop), Resources, SGML, TEI, Unix, Virtualism, Websites, Xanadu, Yahoo, Z39.50 Gateways-- not to mention / * > ; \ ~ and &

12 September: Using the Oxford English Dictionary (NOT) to look up words.

14 September: RLIN (the Research Library Information Network) and the ESTC (English Short-Title Catalog, 1473-1800).

19 September: the UNIX operating system; EMACS; the PICO editor.

21 September: Resources of the World Wide Web (and Internet).

26 September: QUIZ on Unix commands. Text-Encoding: Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).

28 September: Text-Encoding: Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML).

3 October: The Text-Encoding Initiative (TEI): seminar meeting on HTML and SGML as conceptual structures.

5 October: (to be filled in, according to the interests of the seminar participants)

10 October:

12 October:

19 October: . . . to . . .

24 October: . . . the . . .

26 October: -L

31 October: --A

2 November: ---S

7 November: ----T

9 November: ----- S

14 November: ------Y

16 November: ------- L

21 November: -------- L

28 November: ---------A

30 November: ---------- B

5 December: ----------- L

7 December: ------------E of digitalized time-space . . . .