Cross-References
What is there to see also? A question of functional and physical, or pragmatic function--how do you use a book? And a question of metaphysics: what is the book? What is reading? What is writing? What is paper? Phenomenology (Heidegger, Ingarden, and Iser) / Reader Response (Firh / Booth) / Deconstruction (the Yale School)
Pierre Bayard, How to Talk about Books You Haven't Read (2008) Reading Memory / Forgetting
D. F. McKenzie, Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts
Jerome McGann, The Textual Condition everything on the page can be read, including page layout, type font, margin size, and so on. Focuses on canonical literature and textual criticism
Books and articles on Punctuation (Peter Szendy; Theodor Adorno) the Dash (Rebecca Comay), the Parentheses, Histories of Typographies, the Ellipsis, and so on
Literary Theory, Philosophy and the Book: Geoffrey Hartman, Derrida Glas Monsier Texte 1; Geoffrey Hartman, Derrida Glas Monsieur Texte 2; Jacques Derrida, Glas
Randall McLeod, Look at the book, don't read it. Focuses on canonical literature
Evelynn B. Tribble, Margins and Marginality: The Printed Page in Early Modern England
Michael Camille, Images at the Edge Word and Image
Peter Stallybrass (scholar as troll?) and Margreta De Grazia The material book, the physical book, look at the page, don't see through it; continuous (reactionary) versus discontinuous (progressive) reading practices; the novel as the most reactionary kind of book because you supposedly read it continuously (immersively)
The Materiality of the Shakespearean Text
The utitlity of the book, how it functions; search and find devices
Ann Blair, "consultative reading"
Bill Sherman, Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England Literature without literature, reading without reading, history of readers' annotations
Gerard Genette, Paratexts / Used Books Janine Barchas (attempts at synthesis of literary theory and material history of the book; focuses on canonical liteature
Frequently mentioned canonical writers and books: George Herbert, Jonathan Swift, William Blake, Laurence Sterne, Samuel Richarson, Vladminir Nabokov; the early modern Bible; Guillaume Apollinaire; Ezra Pound, Stephane Mallarme, Ed Ruscha (Maria Edgeworth)
Amaranth Borsuk, The Book (MIT) See the tofc: The Book as . . .
Garette Stewart, Bookwork: Medium to Object to Concept to Art
"Anarchives" The Book as Art
Will Hogan, ed The Thing The Book The Art Book about Art Books
Conceptual Poetry / Concrete Poetry / Conceptual Criticism
Craig Dworkin, Anne Carson; Susan Howe, Simon Morris, Kenneth Goldsmith
These two companion volumes of conceptual criticism are out of print, so all we have left are these descriptions:
http://www.informationasmaterial.org
SIMON MORRIS
Contributors: Liz Dalton, Forbes Morlock
For this, the first volume in a two book series, Simon Morris invited two literary theorists, Liz Dalton and Forbes Morlock, to each write an essay on a topic of their own choosing with fully referenced footnotes. Morris, the artist, then collected their respective essays and erased their titles and main body text, leaving only the floating footnote markers in place in the main body area and the footnotes themselves (in full) in place at the bottom of each page. He then sent Dalton’s erased essay, as an unaltered constellation of footnotes, to Morlock, and vice versa. In what has been wittily described by Sharon Kivland as “an academic blind date”, Morris asked the two theorists to try and write a reconstruction of one another’s essay, with only their own interpretation of the other’s footnotes as a guide. Interpretation Vol. I is the result.
This book features the original essays (constructions), the footnote constellations (erasures), the interpretative essays (reconstructions), plus notes by Morris contextualising the process of the collaboration and profiles of each contributor.
SIMON MORRIS & HELEN SACOOR
SIMON MORRIS, INTERPRETATION VOL. II
Contributors: Tim Brennan, Cindy Smith
Price £15 oop
ISBN 0953676536
Year 2002
Edition 200
Pages 132
Binding softback
Illustration text only
Dimensions 225 x 160 mm
This book features the original essays (constructions), the footnote constellations (erasures), and the interpretative essays (reconstructions), distinguished as three stages in their being printed on three different shades of paper and including an A2 poster by Smith. It also features notes by Morris contextualising the process of the collaboration and profiles of each contributor. Working mischievously in the margins – and extending the spirit of Robert Rauschenberg, herman de vries, and Michael Camille – Morris invites a process of re-interpretative collaboration that brings a marginalised point of reference (the footnote) to inversely bear directly on the centre of the text and makes it central to the reconstruction of new texts.
Vanessa Place and Robert Fitterman, Notes on Conceptualisms (2009)
Craig Dworkin, An Overview / Chronology of Conceptual Writing
Craig Dworkin,"Textual Prostheses"
KENNETH GOLDSMITH, Conceptual Writing: A Worldview
Caroline Bergvall and Nick Thurston The Die is Cast
Andrew Elfenbein, The Gist of Reading (2019)
Dennis Duncan, Ed. Book Parts (2019)
Lewis Hyde, A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past
Alejandro Zambra, Not to Read (2018)
THE MULTIGRAPH COLLECTIVE, Interacting with Print: ELEMENTS OF READING IN THE ERA OF PRINT SATURATION (2017)
Madhumita Lahiri, "The View from Here – Too Long; Didn't," Read English: Journal of the English Association, Volume 66, Issue 252, Spring 2017, Pages 1–5.
Stephen Booth, Close Reading without Readings: Essays on Shakespeare and Others (2017)
Cathy Davidson, The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World In Flux (2017)
Garrett Stewart, The Deed of Reading Literature * Writing * Language * Philosophy (2015)
Naomi S. Baron, Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World (Oxford University Press, 2015).
Terry Heick, "IS THE FUTURE OF READING: NOT READING AT ALL?" (2014)
Michael J. Collins, Thomas L. Berger, et al. Reading What's There: Essays on Shakespeare in Honor of Stephen Booth (2014)
Nicholas D. Nace (Editor), Russ McDonald (Editor), Travis D. Williams (Editor) Shakespeare Up Close: Reading Early Modern Texts (2014)
Franco Moretti, Distant Reading (2013)
Stephen Best, Sharon Marcus, "Surface Reading: An Introduction," Representations, Vol. 108 No. 1, (Fall 2009), pp. 1-21
Stephen Booth, Precious Nonsense: The Gettysburg Address, Ben Jonson's Epitaphs on His Children, and Twelfth Night (1998)
Gerard Genette, Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation (1987)
J. Hillis Miller, The Ethics of Reading (1986)
Jerome McGann, The Textual Condition (1982)
Paul de Man, Allegories of Reading (1977)
Harold Bloom, A Map of Misreading (1976)
Geoffrey Hartman, The Fate of Reading (1975)
Jacques Derrida on "unreadability" in "Living On" (1971)
Kenneth Burke, Language as Symbolic Action (1966)
Rueben Arthur Brower, Fields of Light: An Experiment in Critical Reading (1951)
William Empson, The Structure of Complex Words (1948)
Cleanth Brooks, The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry (1947)
William Empson, Some Versions of Pastoral (1935)
William Empson, Seven Types of Ambiguity (1930)
I. A. Richards, Practical Criticism: A Study Of Literary Judgment (1929)
A discussion of the Manicule Letter:
Christopher Flint, "Chapter 3_Dark Matters Printer's Ornaments and the Substitution of Text," in The Appearance of Print in Eighteenth-Century Fiction (2011)
Janine Barchas, "Introduction: Prose Fiction and Print Culture in Eighteenth-century Britain," in Graphic Design, Print Culture, and the Eighteenth-century Novel
"The Typographical Ego-Trip from ‘Dryden’ to Prufrock"
"Typographical Travels Through Tristram Shandy"
Anne Toner, Ellipsis in English Literature: Signs of Omission (2015)