TMS - Bibliography

History of the Book (Manuscript and Print)

Richard Brodhead, Cultures of Letters: Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-century America (Chicago, 1993)
Roger Chartier, Forms and Meanings: Texts, Performances, and Audiences from Codex to Computer
Roger Chartier, The Order of Books (Stanford, 1994)
Robert Darnton, “What is the History of Books?” Daedalus 111.3 (1982): 65-83
Cathy N. Davidson, Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America (New York, 1986)
Johanna Drucker, The Century of Artists’ Books (New York, 1995)
Elizabeth Eisenstein, The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe (one-volume edition of the original two-volume The Printing Press as an Agent of Change ) (Cambridge, 1983)
Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin, The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450-1800 (London, 1976)
Sandra M. Gustafson and Caroline F. Sloat, eds. Cultural Narratives: Textuality and Performance in American Culture before 1900. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010)
David D. Hall, Cultures of Print: Essays in the History of the Book (Amherst, 1996)
Alvin Kernan, Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson (Princeton, 1987)
Harold Love, Scribal Publication in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford and New York, 1993)
Arthur F. Marotti and Michael D. Bristol, eds., Print, Manuscript, and Performance: The Changing Relations of the Media in Early Modern England (Columbus, 2000)
D.F. McKenzie, Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts (London, 1986)
Julie Stone Peters, Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880: Print, Text and Performance in Europe (New York, 2000)
Jerome Rothenberg and Steven Clay, A Book of the Book: Some Works and Projections about the Book and Writing (New York, 2000)
J.W. Saunders, "The Stigma of Print: A Note on the Social Bases of Tudor Poetry." Essays in Criticism 1 (1951): 139-64.
Peter Stoicheff and Andrew Taylor, eds., The Future of the Page (Toronto, 2004)
Michael Warner, Letters of the Republic: Publication and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century America (Cambridge, MA, 1990)

New Media/Technology

Espen Aarseth, Cybertext. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997)
Régis DeBray, Manifestes médiologiques (Gallimard, 1994)
Matthew Fuller, Media Ecologies. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005)
Alex Galloway and Eugene Thacker, The Exploit: A Theory of Networks. (Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, 2007)
Lisa Gitelman and Geoffrey B. Pingree, eds., New Media 1740-1915 (Cambridge, MA, 2003)
Mark B N Hansen, New Philosophy for New Media. (London and Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004)
N. Katherine Hayles, Writing Machines (MIT, 2002)
Friedrich A. Kittler, Discourse Networks 1800/1900 (Stanford, 1990)
Friedrich A. Kittler, Gramophone, Film, Typewriter (Stanford, 1999)
Alan Liu, The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information (Chicago, 2004)
Caroline Marvin, When Old Technologies were New: Thinking about Electronic Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century (New York, 1988)
Jerome McGann, Radiant Textuality: Literature after the World Wide Web (New York, 2001)
Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man (Toronto, 1962)
Raimonda Modiano, et. al, eds., Voice, Text, Hypertext: Emerging Practices in Textual Studies (Seattle, 2004)
Nick Montfort and Noah Wardrip-Fruin, eds. The New Media Reader. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002)
James O’Donnell, Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace (Cambridge, MA, 1998)
Stephen Shaviro, Connected, or What It Means to Live in a Network Society. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003)
David Thorburn and Henry Jenkins, ed., Rethinking Media Change: The Aesthetics of Transition (Cambridge, MA, 2003)
David Thorbury and Henry Jenkins, eds. Rethinking Media Change: The Aesthetics of Transition. (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2004)
Victoria Vesna, ed., Database Aesthetics. (Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, 2007)

Performance Theory

J.L. Austin, How to Do Things with Words (Cambridge, MA, 1975)
M.M. Bakhtin, “Discourse in the Novel” and other essays in The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (Austin, 1981)
Richard Bauman, Verbal Art as Performance (Illinois, 1984)
Homi Bhabha, The Location of Culture (London and New York, 1994)
Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (New York, 1990)
Ruth Finnegan, Oral Poetry: Its Nature, Significance, and Social Context (Cambridge, 1977)
Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (New York, 1973)
Richard Schechter, Performance Theory (New York, 1988)

History of Performance

Daniel Belgrad, The Culture of Spontaneity: Improvisation and the Arts in Postwar America (Chicago, 1998)
James E.B. Breslin, From Modern to Contemporary: American Poetry, 1945-1965 (Chicago, 1984)
Jay Fliegelman, Declaring Independence: Jefferson, Natural Language, and the Culture of Performance (Stanford, 1993)
Marjorie Perloff, The Futurist Moment: Avant garde, avant guerre, and the Language of Rupture (Chicago, 1986)
Marjorie Perloff, Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media (Chicago, 1991)
Joseph Roach, Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance (New York, 1996)
Henry Sayre, The Object of Performance: The American avant-garde since 1970 (Chicago, 1989)
David S. Shields, Civil Tongues and Polite Letters in British America (Chapel Hill, 1997)

Orality and Literacy

David Antin, Talking at the Boundaries (New York, 1976)
Charles Bernstein, ed., Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word (New York, 1998)
Jacques Derrida, Grammatology (Paris, 1967)
Jacques Derrida, Writing and Difference (Chicago, 1978)
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism (New York, 1988)
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., ed., “Race,” Writing, and Difference (Chicago, 1986)
Jack Goody and Ian Watt, “The Consequences of Literacy” in Goody, ed., Literacy in Traditional Societies (Cambridge, 1968), 27-84
Paul Lauter, "The Literatures of America A Comparative Discipline" in Ruoff and Ward, eds., Redefining American Literary History (New York, 1990), 9-34
Adelaide Morris, ed., Sound States: Innovative Poetic and Acoustical Technologies (Chapel Hill and London, 1997)
David Murray, Forked Tongues: Speech, Writing, and Representation in North American Indian Texts (Bloomington, Ind., 1991)
Walter Ong, Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word (London, 1982)
Alessandro Portelli, The Text and the Voice Writing, Speaking, and Democracy in American Literature (New York, 1994)
Garrett Stewart, Reading Voices: Literature and the Phonotext (Berkeley, 1990)
Brian V. Street, Literacy in Theory and Practice (Cambridge, 1984)

Reading

Richard D. Altick, The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900. 2nd ed. (Columbus, OH, 1998)
Jonathan Boyarin, The Ethnography of Reading (Berkeley, CA, 1993)
Roger Chartier, "Frenchness in the History of the Book: From the History of Publishing to the History of Reading." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 97 (1987), 299-329.
Michel De Certeau, "Reading as Poaching." Trans. Steven Rendall. The Practice of Everyday Life (Berkeley, CA, 1984), 165-76
Stanley Fish, Is there a Text in this Class?: The Authority of Interpretive Communities (Cambridge, MA, 1980)
Stanley Fish, Surprised by Sin: The Reader in Paradise Lost (Cambridge, MA, 1998)
Anthony Grafton and Lisa Jardine. "'Studied for Action': How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy." Past and Present 129 (1990), 30-78
Wolfgang Iser, The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response (Baltimore, 1980)
Wolfgang Iser, The Fictive and the Imaginary: Charting Literary Anthropology (Baltimore, 1993)
Wolfgang Iser, The Implied Reader: Patterns of Communication in Prose from Bunyan to Beckett (Baltimore, 1974)
Wolfgang Iser, The Range of Interpretation (New York, 2000)
Janice Radway, Reading the Romance (Chapel Hill, 1984)
James Raven, Helen Small, and Naomi Tadmor, eds. The Practice and Representation of Reading in England (Cambridge, 1996)
Jonathan Rose, "Rereading the English Common Reader: A Preface to a History of Audiences." Journal of the History of Ideas 53 (1992), 47-70
Paul Saenger, "Silent Reading: Its Impact on Late Medieval Script and Society." Viator 13 (1982), 367-414