Proposed Reading List: Hypertext: Theory and Practice
Hypertext in Practice
"Proto-hypertexts"
- Lawrence Sterne, Tristram Shandy (1759-67).
- James Joyce, Ulysses (1922)
- Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire (1962).
"Hyperfiction"
- Michael Joyce. afternoon, a story (1990).
- Stuart Moulthrop, Victory Garden (1991).
- John McDaid. Uncle Buddy's Phantom Funhouse (1993).
- Judy Malloy, Its Name Was Penelope (1993).
- Carolyn Guyer, Quibbling (1994).
Nonfiction hypertexts
- J. David Bolter, Writing Space: A Hypertext (1990).
- George Landow, Hypertext in Hypertext (1994).
- Christiane Paul, Unreal City: A Hypertext Guide to T.S. Eliot's
The Waste Land (1995).
- Diane Greco, Cyborg: Engineering the Body Electric (1995).
Hypertext in Theory
"Classics"
- Vannevar Bush, "As We May Think" (1945); "Memex Revisited" (1967).
- Douglas Engelbart, "A Conceptual Framework for the Augmentation of Man's Intellect" (1963)
- Theodor Nelson, Computer Lib/Dream Machines (1974/87);
Literary Machines (1981 ff); "Managing Immense Storage" (1988).
- A. Lippman, "Movie Maps" (1980).
- Nicole Yankelovich, Norman K Meyrowitz and Andries van Dam, "Reading and Writing the
Electronic Book" (1985).
Hypertext theory
(collections)
- Hypertext'87 Proceedings.
- Hypertext'89 Proceedings.
- Emily Berk and Joseph Devlin, eds. The Hypertext/Hypermedia Handbook
(1991).
- Paul Delaney and George Landow, eds. Hypermedia and Literary Studies
(1991).
- Myron Tuman, ed. Literacy Online: The Promise (and Peril) of Reading
and Writing with Computers (1992).
- Edward Barret, ed. Sociomedia: Multimedia, Hypermedia and the Social
Construction of Knowledge (1992).
- George Landow, ed. Hyper/Text/Theory (1994).
- Cynthia Selfe and Susan Hilligoss, eds. Literacy and Computers
(1994).
(individual works)
- J. David Bolter and Michael Joyce, "Hypertext and Creative Writing" (1987)
- David H. Jonassen, Hypertext/Hypermedia (1989).
- J. David Bolter, Writing Space: The Computer in the the History of
Literacy (1990).
- Mark Stiegler, "Hypermedia and the Singularity" (1989).
- Cliff McKnight, Andrew Dillon, and John Richardson, Hypertext in Context
(1990).
- Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology and Socialist-Feminism
in the Late Twentieth Century" (1991).
- George Landow, Hyptertext: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical
Theory and Technology (1992).
- Peter Bogh Andersen, "Vector Spaces as the Basic Component of Interactive Systems: Towards a Computer Semiotics" (1992).
- Robert Coover, "The End of Books" (1992).
- Richard Lanham, The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology and the
Arts (1993).
- Howard Rheingold, The Electronic Community: Homesteading on the Virtual
Frontier (1993).
- Jakob Nielsen, Multimedia and Hypertext: The Internet and Beyond
(1995).
- Nicholas Negroponte, Being Digital (1995).
- Michael Joyce, Of Two Minds: Hypertext, Pedagogy and Poetics
(1995).
Critiques
- Steven Manes, "Hypertext: A Breath of Air Freshener" (1987).
- Robert J. Glushko, "Visions of Grandeur?" (1990).
- Sven Birkerts, The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic
Age (1994).
- Theodore Roszak, The Cult of Information, 2nd ed. (1994).
- Richard Rothenberg, "Life in Cyberburbia" (1996).
Critical Theory and Media Studies
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, 3rd ed. (1958).
- Marshall McLuhan. The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic
Man (1962); Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
(1964).
- Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology (1967, trans. 1976); Glas
(1974, trans. 1976).
- Roland Barthes, S/Z (1970, trans. 1974).
- Walter J. Ong, Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word
(1982).
- Elizabeth Eisenstein. The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe
(1983).
- Hugh Kenner, The Mechanic Muse (1987).
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