Reading List

• The Author, by Andrew Bennett (Kindle Edition)
• Authorship, by Seán Burke (Print, 1995) – Selected Chapters
• Main introduction and all section introductions, by Seán Burke
• “Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming”, Sigmund Freud
• “Tradition and the Individual Talent”, T.S. Eliot
• “The Death of the Author”, Roland Barthes
• “A Meditation upon Priority, and a Synopsis”, Harold Bloom
• from The Madwoman in the Attic, Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar
• “Changing the Subject: Authorship, Writing and the Reader”, Nancy K. Miller
• from “What Is an Author”, Michel Foucault
• from “What Was an Author”, Molly Nesbit
• “The Ethics of Signature”, Seán Burke
• “Second Mediatation”, René Descartes
• “Why I am a Destiny”, Friedrich Nietzsche
• The Death and Return of the Author, by Seán Burke (Print, 2008)
• Theories of Authorship, by John Caughie (Print, 1981)
• The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of Television, by Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Print, 2006)
• Planned Obsolescence: Publication Technology and the Future of the Academy, by Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Web, 2011 – available at MediaCommons in e-book form)
• Hartling, Florian. “Hypertext and Collective Authorship: The Influence of the Internet on the Formation of New Concepts of Authorship.” Literatures in the Digital Era: Theory and Praxis. 289-296. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars, 2007. MLA International Bibliography. EBSCO. Web. 1 June 2011.
• Laccetti, Jessica. “Where to Begin? Multiple Narrative Paths in Web Fiction.” Narrative Beginnings: Theories and Practices. 179-190. Lincoln, NE: U of Nebraska P, 2008. MLA International Bibliography. EBSCO. Web. 1 June 2011.
• The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading, by Peter Lunenfeld (Print, 2011)
• Miller, Nora. “Wikipedia and the Disappearing ‘Author’.” ETC.: A Review of General Semantics 62.1 (2005): 37-40.
• Pinder, Julian. “The Codex Unbound: The (Failed?) Promise of the Hypertext Novel.” Philament 11.(2007): 39-63. MLA International Bibliography. EBSCO. Web. 1 June 2011. (PDF)
• TOC: A New Media Novel, by Steve Tomasula (DVD-Rom, 2009)