So many texts...so little time...

In keeping with our discussion of literacy, I am going to begin a list of texts that Dr. Sexson mentions/passes aroud during class. Every text that he brings up has relevance with what we are doing in this course and will be helpful at the end when we are writing term papers and doing presentations. This list will be updated as necessary so check back often for new titles! :O)

BOOKS
The Singer of Tales Albert Bates Lord
The Gutenburg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age Sven Birkerts
The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image Leonard Shlain
Secular Scripture Northrop Frye
The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci Johnathan D. Spence
The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture Mary J. Carruthers, Alastair Minnis
History as an Art of Memory Patrick H. Hutton
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man Marshall McLuhan
Metaphors of Memory Douwe Praaisma
Learn to Remember Dominic O'Brien
The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man Marshall McLuhan
The Songlines Bruce Chatwin
The Mwindo Epic from the Banyanga Biebuyck

ESSAYS/PAPERS
Re-Membering Finnegan: James Joyce's Masterpiece in the Age of Cyberspace Michael Sexson
Beyond the Orality, Literacy Dichotomy: James Joyce and the Prehistory of Cyberspace Donald Theall
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Walter Benjamin

MOVIES
Farenheit 451
Memento
Until the End of the World
The Story of the Weeping Camel
Walk About
Dead Man
Coffee and Cigarettes
8 Mile (flyting)


Google any of these for more info. Also visit http://www.law.pitt.edu/hibbitts/or-lit.htm for more papers/books/courses devoted to the Orality Literacy subject.