ENGL 4706: Breaking the Book Fall 2016 Syllabus
Required Texts
All are available via Amazon and (hopefully) the BSU Bookstore. Used copies are showing up on Amazon.- Emerson, Lori. Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound. Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2014 ISBN-10: 0816691266 ISBN-13: 978-0816691265.
- Kitzman, Andreas. Hypertext Handbook: The Straight Story. Peter Lang Publishing, 2006. ISBN-10: 082047441X ISBN-13: 978-0820474410
- McLuan, Marshall, and David Carson. The Book of Probes. Gingko Press, 2011. ISBN-10: 1584232528 ISBN-13: 978-1584232520
Most of the readings for the course will be online and in printable pdf.
week of Aug 22: Writing as Technology
- intros
- ENGL4706Fall2016Statement
- Discussion on writing and materiality
- Exercise for Aug 29 : DeviseAWritingTechnology
week of 29 Aug: Writing Technologies
- review of 22 aug
- Exercise for Aug 29 : DeviseAWritingTechnology
- In class, present and discuss writing technologies
week of 5 Sep
- no class: Labor Day
for week of 12 Sep: TheBookAsInterface
Read, take notes on, commonplace, come to class ready to question, discuss, consider, exemplify, extend.for week of 18 Sep: TheBookAsInterfacePart2
for week of 3 Oct: ReadingTheScreen
for week of Oct 17: WritingAndTheMind
for week 0f Oct 24: Typewriters
for week 0f Oct 31 - Nov 14: BookOfProbes
LittleBookOfProbesProject. Hand in your little book of probes physically Tuesday, by 2:00 pm. Drop box mext to office door at HS 314.for week of 28 Nov: Hypertext
- Discussion of little books of probes
- Kitzmann. Hypertext Handbook, chap 1 and 2, to p 71
- Expect a project to be assigned for our final meeting.
- MorgansNotesOnKitzmannPart1
for week of 5 Dec: Hypertext
- Kitzmann. Hypertext Handbook, chap 3 and 4
- Review of hypertexts you read from last week.
- The future of the book.
- BreakingTheBookFinalProject : Mapping the Territory
- Due at my office, HS 314, by Mon 12 Dec, 4:00 pm.
