{"id":152,"date":"2016-03-07T20:40:17","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T01:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/wri101\/?page_id=152"},"modified":"2016-03-07T20:56:41","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T01:56:41","slug":"warm-up-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/wri101\/work\/warm-up-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Warm-Up #3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Modelling Daytripper<\/em><\/h3>\n

For this warm-up you will make a \u201cmodel\u201d or a \u201cmap\u201d\u2014not necessarily a geographic map\u2014that highlights some spatial, temporal, thematic, or structural elements of Daytripper<\/em>.<\/p>\n

A \u201cmap\u201d does not necessarily have to be a cartographic map. In fact, the last thing I want is a faithful map of all the \u201cplaces\u201d in Daytripper<\/em>. Rather, by \u201cmap\u201d I mean a model: an abstract visual or three-dimensional representation of some element of the graphic novel that captures its complexity and reveals a pattern or set of relations that a straightforward reading might overlook. A timeline of events in Br\u00e1s’s life is one example of a “map,” although for the purposes of this warm-up, such a timeline risks oversimplifying the work.<\/p>\n

In an article called \u201cGraphs, Maps, and Trees,\u201d the critic Franco Moretti makes a case for creating what he calls literary maps:<\/p>\n

What do literary maps do . . . First, they are a good way to prepare a text for analysis. You choose a unit \u2014 walks, lawsuits, luxury goods, whatever \u2014 find its occurrences, place them in space . . .\u00a0 or in other words: you reduce the text to a few elements, and abstract them, and construct a new, artificial object. A model. And at this point you start working at a \u2018secondary\u2019 level, removed from the text: a map, after all, is always a look from afar \u2014 or is useless, like Borges\u2019s map of the empire. Distant reading, I have called this work elsewhere; where distance is however not an obstacle, but a specific form of knowledge: fewer elements, hence a sharper sense of their overall interconnection. Shapes, relations, structures. Patterns. (New Left Review<\/em> 26<\/a> (2004), p. 94)<\/div><\/div>\n

There are a number of ways to approach this inquiry. For examples of different kinds of mapping visualizations, browse through the Periodic Table of Visualization Methods<\/a>. I encourage you to be creative and to make use of any style or tool necessary. You can be as low-tech or high-tech as you want; your map can be hand-constructed or you can use sophisticated online tools like TimelineJS<\/a>, Storymaps<\/a>, Palladio<\/a>, or other digital data visualization tools<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Whatever form your \u201cmodel\u201d takes, be sure to include a legend or key that explains the information represented.<\/p>\n

Making Sense of the Model<\/h4>\n

Once your map\/model and legend are complete, you can turn to the next part of the inquiry. In roughly 750 words, reflect upon what your model reveals about Daytripper<\/em>. How does this abstract model of the graphic novel encourage a \u201cdistant reading\u201d and what does that reading tell us? How does the map reveal qualitative or quantitative aspects of the graphic novel that would elude a typical close reading? Also, walk us through your thinking process: what element(s) of the graphic novel were you trying to convey, and why did your \u201cmap\u201d take the shape it did? Finally, how does your map\/model succeed, and what are its limitations?<\/p>\n

Post the entire project onto your domain. This includes an image of your map\/model (and embed or link to it if it’s online), as well as the 750-word essay.<\/p>\n

Deadline:<\/strong> Thursday, March 17. Bring your original map or model to class that day. The essay\/blog post is due by midnight on the 17th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Modelling Daytripper For this warm-up you will make a \u201cmodel\u201d or a \u201cmap\u201d\u2014not necessarily a geographic map\u2014that highlights some spatial, temporal, thematic, or structural elements of Daytripper. A \u201cmap\u201d does not necessarily have to be a cartographic map. In fact, the last thing I want is a faithful map of all the \u201cplaces\u201d in Daytripper. … Continue reading “Warm-Up #3”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":23,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-152","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/wri101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/wri101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/wri101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/wri101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/wri101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/wri101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/wri101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/152\/revisions\/159"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/wri101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/wri101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}