5.4 Texts

If you would like to purchase your texts online, here is a page with links to Amazon.com for History and Future of the Book. (You don't have to buy them from Amazon -- you may choose any bookseller, and the items are also in the SHU bookstore.)

General

Book (Eyewitness), (0789458926)
Tribble & Trubeck, Writing Material (0321077172)
Kindle (tentative; a Kindle is a hand-held gadget for reading electronic books; Reeves Library has ordered one for the class to check out for a week or so. Each student will discuss with me a plan for using the Kindle to reading related to the course. More details on that assignment if and when the gadget arrives -- they sold out during the Christmas rush!)


Part I: Oral to Manuscript

Havelock, The Muse Learns to Write (0300043821)


Part II: Manuscript to Print

Orwell, 1984 (0451524934)
Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler... (0679420258)
McLuhan, Gutenberg Galaxy (0451039130)

Part III: Print to Digital

Aarseth, Cybertext (0801855799)
Doctorow, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (076530953X)
Kirschenbaum Mechanisms (0262113112) [publication date: 31 Jan 2008]