Texts:

All are required and are available at the RSC on-campus bookstore. All are also available through Amazon.com.

• Neil Postman, Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology. Vintage, 1992.
• Thomas P. Hughes, Human-Built World: How to Think About Technology and Culture. UChicagoP, 2004.
• J. Yellowlees Douglas, The End of Books-Or Books without End?: Reading Interactive Narratives. University of Michigan Press, 2000.
• A good college dictionary.
• A reliable memory stick, or an assortment of clean floppy disks. Please label them with your full name, e-mail address and phone number.

Additionally, each member of the seminar will choose one of the following texts for a special writing project:

• Italo Calvino, If On A Winter's Night A Traveller . . . HB, 1982.
• Raymond Queneau, Exercises in Style. New Directions, 1981.
• Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Vintage, 2001.

• The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 6th edition. If you are English major, minor, or Writing minor, or wish to be a serious writer, you need to own a copy of this book. Several copies have been ordered as "optional" for the course.
• If you are completely new to the world of literary theory, you might want to look at Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory. University of Minnesota Press, 1996; this is an excellent, very readable introduction to theory. I have not ordered this for the seminar; if members feel they would like a copy, I will gladly order it through the BHSU bookstore.