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

• Brookfield, 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 because I wanted each student to be able to check one out for a week or so. More about this assignment if and when the Kindle 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]