This bibliography of articles and book chapters about electronic text has been prepared by graduate students in a seminar, English 8710, Studies in Criticism: Electronic Text (University of Minnesota, Spring 1995). The items selected for attention here reflect individual interests and are not supposed to "cover" the field. Electronic Text: Selective Annotated Bibliography
Readings that were discussed in the seminar, and that therefore are omitted from the annotated bibliography below, included the following:
A few broadly relevant essays in critical theory are also included in this bibliography, as a supplement at the end.Auping, Michael. Jenny Holzer. New York: Universe, 1992. -- Lapidary and electronic inscriptions in the art of Jenny Holzer. Landow, George P. Hypertext: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1991. -- The most influential account of electronic writing to date. Lanham, Richard A. The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1993. -- A widely-read collection of essays, which relates the new technology of writing to the subversive vitality of classical rhetoric. Ong, Walter J. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. New York: Routledge, 1982. -- A concise introduction to the history of orality, manuscript culture, print literacy, and electronic text. Selfe, Cynthia L., and Susan Hilligoss, eds. Literacy and Computers: The Complications of Teaching and Learning with Technology. Research and Scholarship in Composition 2. New York: MLA, 1994. -- Twenty articles on technology and literacy instruction. Tuman, Myron C. Word Perfect: Literacy in the Computer Age. Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 1992. -- Some implications of electronic text for the teaching of literacy.
1995. Ayers, Edward L. "The Valley of the Shadow: Living in the Civil War from Pennsylvania to Virginia." Abstract. 1995. Fanderclai, Tari Lin. "MUDs in Education: New Environments, New Pedagogies." Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine 2. Abstract. 1995. Hart-Davidson, Bill. "What's Dis'course About? Arguing CMC Into the Curriculum". Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine 2. Abstract. 1995. Joyce, Michael. "Introduction: The Comfort of Knowing We Are Not Lost." Of Two Minds: Hypertext Pedagogy and Poetics. Abstract. 1995. Kaplan, Nancy. "E-literacies: Politexts, Hypertexts, and Other Cultural Formations in the Late Age of Print." Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine 2. Abstract. 1995. Kemp, Fred, et al. "The ACW: Not Your Father's Kind of Organization." Abstract. 1995. Kolb, David. Socrates in the Labyrinth: Hypertext, Argument, Philosophy. Cambridge: Eastgate Systems. (Computer diskette.) Abstract. 1995. Krause, Steve. "'How Will This Improve Student Writing?': Reflections on an Exploratory Study of Online and Off-Line Texts." Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine 2. Abstract. 1995. Moulthrop, Stuart. "Rhizome and Resistance: Hypertext and the Dreams of a New Culture."Hyper/Text/Theory. George P. Landow. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP. 299-320. Abstract. 1995. Schmeiser, Lisa. "From the Nets: Of Style and Substance." Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine 2. Abstract. 1995. Stoll, Clifford. Silicon Snake Oil. New York: Doubleday. Abstract. 1995. Tolva, John. "The Heresy of Hypertext: Fear and Anxiety in the Late Age of Print." Abstract. 1994. Burnard, Lou, and C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, eds. TEI Guidelines. Abstract. 1994. Douglas, J. Yellowlees. "'How Do I Stop This Thing?': Closure and Indeterminacy in Interactive Narratives." Hyper/Text/Theory. Ed. George P. Landow. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1994. 159-88. Abstract. 1994. Machan, Tim William. "Chaucer's Poetry, Versioning, and Hypertext." Philological Quarterly 73 (1994): 299-316. Abstract. 1994. Rheingold, Howard. The Virtual Community. New York: HarperPerennial. Abstract. 1994. Rosello, Mireille. "The Screener's Maps: Michel deCerteau's 'Wandersmaenner' and Paul Auster's Hypertextual Detective." Hyper/Text/Theory. Ed. George P. Landow. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP. 121-58. Abstract. 1994. Ulmer, Gregory L. "The Miranda Warnings: An Experiment in Hypertextual Rhetoric." Hyper/Text/Theory. Ed. George P. Landow. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1994. 345-77. Abstract. 1993. Burnett, Kathleen. "Toward a Theory of Hypertextual Design." Postmodern Culture 3 (1993). Abstract. 1993. Renear, Allen, Elli Mylonas, and David Durand. "Refining our Notion of What Text Really Is: The Problem of Overlapping Hierarchies." Abstract. 1992. Zielinski, Siegfried. "The Electronic Text: Some Challenges in Confronting Audiovisual Textures." Poetics 21: 129-39. Abstract. 1991. Bolter, Jay David. Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. "The Elements of Writing." 45-61. Abstract. "Seeing and Writing." 63-81. Two abstracts. "The Electronic Book." 85-106. Abstract. "Electronic Signs." 195-206. Abstract. 1991. Crane, Gregory. "Composing Culture: The Authority of an Electronic Text." Current Anthropology 32: 293-311. Abstract. 1991. Friedlander, Larry. "The Shakespeare Project: Experiments in Multimedia Education." Hypermedia and Literary Studies. Ed. George Landow and Paul Delany. Cambridge: MIT. 257-71. Abstract. 1991. Faulhaber, Charles B. "Textual Criticism in the 21st Century." Romance Philology 45: 123-48. Abstract. 1991. Huntley, John. "Teaching Milton by Computer." Journal of Computing in Higher Education. 3 (1991): 62-84. Abstract. 1991. Joyce, Michael. "Notes Toward an Unwritten Non-Linear Electronic Text, 'The Ends of Print Culture.'" Postmodern Culture 2. Abstract. 1991. Moulthrop, Stuart. "You Say You Want a Revolution? Hypertext and the Laws of Media." Postmodern Culture 1 (1991). Abstract. 1991. Rheingold, Howard. Virtual Reality. New York: Touchstone, 1991. Abstract. 1991. Slatin, John. "Reading Hypertext: Order and Coherence in a New Medium." Hypermedia and Literary Studies. Ed. George Landow and Paul Delany. Cambridge: MIT. 153-69. Abstract. 1991. Sperberg-McQueen, C. M. "Text in the Electronic Age: Textual Study and Text Encoding, with Examples from Medieval Texts." Literary and Linguistic Computing 6 (1991): 34-46. Abstract. 1986. Kerr, Stephen T. "Instructional Text: The Transition from Page to Screen." Visible Language 20: 368-92. Abstract. 1984. Lebowitz, Michael. "Creating Characters in a Story-Telling Universe." Poetics 13: 171-94. Abstract. The following classic essays, written before electronic text became commonplace, suggest ways of framing it. Supplement: Critical Theory
- Barthes, Roland. Image, Music, Text. Ed. and trans. Stephen Heath. New York: Hill, 1977.
- "The Photographic Message." 15-31. Abstract.
- "Rhetoric of the Image." 32-51. Abstract.
- "The Death of the Author." Abstract.
- Berger, John. Ways of Seeing. London: Penguin, 1977. Chapter 1; 7-34. Abstract.
- Foucault, Michel. "What Is an Author?" Twentieth-Century Literary Theory. Ed. Vassilis Lambropoulos and David Neal Miller. Albany: State University Press of New York, 1987. 124-42. Abstract.
- Wellek, René. "The Mode of Existence of a Literary Work of Art." Twentieth-Century Literary Theory. Ed. Vassilis Lambropoulos and David Neal Miller. Albany: State University Press of New York, 1987. 71-84. Abstract.
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