Electronic Text: Selective Annotated Bibliography

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.

Readings that were discussed in the seminar, and that therefore are omitted from the annotated bibliography below, included the following:

• 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.

A few broadly relevant essays in critical theory are also included in this bibliography, as a supplement at the end.

• 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.

Supplement: Critical Theory

The following classic essays, written before electronic text became commonplace, suggest ways of framing it.

• 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.

Michael Hancher

Department of English, University of Minnesota

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Created 29 April 1995

Last revised 17 September 1996