Resources

Additional Information about the course

An Interdisciplinary Approach  This course combines historicist and materialist methods and research questions with a substantial archive of poetry and poetics texts. Although poets offer many definitions of poetry, a persistent emphasis is placed on the concept of a poem as language which is aware of itself as language. Since poetry is attentive to its …

Books and Materials

Amaranth Borsuk Between Page and Screen. Siglio. 2012 , 2016  Roger Chartier The Order of Books. Stanford University Press, 1994. * Lori Emerson, Reading Writing Interfaces from the Digital to the Bookbound. U Minn Press, 2014 * Kenneth Goldsmith Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age. Columbia University Press 2011 * Shelley Jackson, Patchwork Girl, …

Formal Assignments

Participation 20% Oral contributions and informal periodic writing assignments assigned as needed to verify that everyone is reading. Only one scheduled for week two for which you will receive feedback and a score. Textual Practice 25% Ongoing. Signup for a week at our second meeting. “Literary Text Biography” 25% due April 9, 2020 A Theory …

Textual Practice Assignment (25% of final grade)

Assignment: Textual Practice (15 minutes, with 20 minutes of class studio time) From week to week, students will teach the class through demo presentation or interactive lessons (whichever is feasible) a “textual practice.” Options may include coding in Processing or Python, encoding with XML or HTML, scholarly editing, composing with typewriters, crochet, needlepoint, cross stitch, knitting, …

A Literary Textual Biography (25% of final grade)

This Formal Essay Assignment invites you to select from a specific list a text for which you would like to write a “Literary Text Biography.” This quite literally means that you are invited to write about the life of this text. As we know from the previous weeks of discussion, a text develops its meaning …

A Theory of Text Technologies: A Digital Portfolio (30% of final grade)

 This portfolio is a born-digital artifact. The portfolio is framed by your theoretical introduction which draws from texts read this semester to articulate a theory of text technologies. The introduction should be scholarly, employ citational practices, and be clearly situated within the critical, historical, and philosophical arguments we have discussed this semester. The portfolio will …