Schedule and Readings

Week 1 12 Sept	Introduction assigned reading Duguid, Paul. "Material Matters: The Past and Futurology of the Book." In The Future of the Book, edited by Geoffrey Nunberg, 63-101. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996. [Duguid - Material Matters.pdf] Drucker, Johanna, "Modeling Functionality: From Codex to E-book." In SpecLab: Digital Aesthetics and Projects in Speculative Computing, 165-75. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. [http://go.utlib.ca/cat/9988258; note that you can download the entire chapter as a single PDF file if you enter the page range 186-95, though you'll need to view the endnotes separately] recommended reading Galey, Alan. "Reading the Book of Mozilla: Web Browsers and the Materiality of Digital Texts." In The History of Reading, Vol. 3: Methods, Strategies, Tactics. Edited by Rosalind Crone and Shafquat Towheed, 196-214. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. [Galey - Book of Mozilla _published_.pdf]
Week 2 19 Sept	Theoretical Frameworks assigned reading Matthew G. Kirschenbaum and Sarah Werner, "Digital Scholarship and Digital Studies: the State of the Discipline," Book History 17 (2014): 406-58 recommended reading Darnton, Robert. "'What Is the History of Books?' Revisited." Modern Intellectual History 4, no. 3 (2007): 495-508. [http://journals1.scholarsportal.info.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/browse/14792443/v04i0003] Note: in this article, Darnton is looking back to a much earlier article he published in 1982 called "What Is the History of Books?", which became one of the theoretical foundations for the field of book history. You can find the original 1982 article here: http://www.jstor.org.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/stable/20024803. However, for students new to book history, the 2007 retrospective is a bit more accessible, and contains a figure of Darnton's "communications circuit" along with an alternative model offered by Adams and Barker. The Darnton model and its revisions will be a touchstone for our course as a whole. Greetham, David. "What Is Textual Scholarship?" In A Companion to the History of the Book, edited by Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. [http://go.utlib.ca/cat/7875444] Drucker, Johanna. "Humanities Approaches to Interface Theory." Culture Machine 12 (2011): 1-20. [http://www.culturemachine.net/index.php/cm/issue/view/23] Dillon, Andrew. "Reading, Books, and Electronic Text." In Designing Usable Electronic Text. 2nd ed. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2004. [http://go.utlib.ca/cat/5250181] Parikka, Jussi. "Operative Media Archaeology: Wolfgang Ernst's Materialist Media Diagrammatics." Theory, Culture & Society 28, no. 5 (2011): 52-74. [http://resolver.scholarsportal.info.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/resolve/02632764/v28i0005/52_omawemmd]; see also Parikka, What Is Media Archaeology? (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2012) Erickson, Paul. "Help or Hindrance? The History of the Book and Electronic Media." In Rethinking Media Change: the Aesthetics of Transition, edited by David Thorburn and Henry Jenkins, 95-116. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003. McKenzie, D.F. "The Broken Phiall: Non-Book Texts." In Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts, 31-54. Cambridge University Press, 1999. [http://go.utlib.ca/cat/8357833]
Week 3 26 Sept	Markup Theory and Practice, Part 1 (Fundamentals) assigned reading Sperberg-McQueen, C.M. "Text in the Electronic Age: Textual Study and Text Encoding, with Examples from Medieval Texts." Literary and Linguistic Computing 6, no. 1 (1991): 34-46. [http://go.utlib.ca/cat/7731513] TEI By Example, "Introduction to Text Encoding and the TEI [Text Encoding Initiative]": http://www.teibyexample.org/modules/TBED00v00.htm recommended reading Comic Book Markup Language: http://dcl.slis.indiana.edu/cbml/ Galey, Alan. "Encoding as Editing as Reading." In Shakespeare and Textual Studies. Edited by M.J. Kidnie and Sonia Massai, 196-211. Cambridge University Press, 2015. [https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/72473] files for class Shakespeare-Hopkins handout - facsimile.pdf Hopkins - overhead.doc sonnet 129 - overhead.doc glossary_example.html glossary_example.xml
Week 4 3 Oct	Markup Theory and Practice, Part 2 (Applications) assigned readings Renear, Allen. "Out of Praxis: Three (Meta)Theories of Textuality." Electronic Text: Investigations in Method and Theory, edited by Kathryn Sutherland, 107-26. Oxford: Clarendon, 1997. [http://go.utlib.ca/cat/8566519] Pierazzo, Elena. "Textual Scholarship and Text Encoding." In A New Companion to Digital Humanities, edited by Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth. Oxford: Blackwell, 2016. [http://go.utlib.ca/cat/10577300] recommended reading McGann, Jerome. "Visible and Invisible Books: Hermetic Images in n-Dimensional Space." Literary and Linguistic Computing 17.1 (2002): 61-75. [http://go.utlib.ca/cat/7731513] Buzzetti, Dino, and Jerome McGann. "Critical Editing in a Digital Horizon." In Electronic Textual Editing, edited by Lou Burnard, Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, and John Unsworth, 94-127. New York: Modern Language Association, 2006. [online preview version: www.tei-c.org/About/Archive_new/ETE/Preview/] Dahlström, Mats, Joacim Hansson, Ulrika Kjellman. "'As We May Digitize' -- Institutions and Documents Reconfigured."Liber Quarterly 21.3-4 (2012): 455-74. Alan Galey, VisualizingVariation.ca, section on animated variants files/links for class glossary_example.html glossary_example.xml MND overlapping hierarchies handout.pdf Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines: www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/
10 Oct	Thanksgiving long weekend (no class)
Week 5 17 Oct	Markup Theory and Practice, Part 3 (Interfaces) assigned reading Kirschenbaum, Matthew G. "'So the Colors Cover the Wires': Interface, Aesthetics, and Usability." In A Companion to Digital Humanities, edited by Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. [http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/] Flanders, Julia. "Collaboration and Dissent: Challenges of Collaborative Standards for Digital Humanities." In Collaborative Research in the Digital Humanities, edited by Marilyn Deegan and Willard McCarty. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012. [Flanders - collaboration and dissent.pdf] recommended reading Liu, Alan. "Transcendental Data: Toward a Cultural History and Aesthetics of the New Encoded Discourse." Critical Inquiry 31, no. 1 (2004): 49-84. [http://go.utlib.ca/cat/7700331] Hayles, N. Katharine. "Translating Media: Why We Should Rethink Textuality." Yale Journal of Criticism 16 (2003): 263-90. [http://go.utlib.ca/cat/7766423] David Norton, ch. 3 of A Textual History of the King James Bible (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
Week 6 24 Oct	Literary Labour and Digital Publishing guest speaker: Sarah Lubelski, Faculty of Information assigned reading Brouillette, Sarah. "Work as Art / Art as Life." In Literature and the Creative Economy. Stanford University Press, 2014. [Brouillette_Ch2.pdf] Striphas, Ted. "E-Books and the Digital Future." In The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. [Striphas - E-Books.pdf] recommended reading Murray, Padmini Ray, and Claire Squires. "The Digital Publishing Communications Circuit." Book 2.0 3, no. 1 (2013): 3-23. [http://go.utlib.ca/cat/10171334] Thompson, John B., "The Digital Revolution." In Merchants of Culture: the Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2010. [Thompson - digital revolution.pdf ] Johns, Adrian. Ch. 1, "A General History of the Pirates" and ch. 17, "Past, Present, and Future." In Piracy: the Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates, 1-15, 497-518. University of Chicago Press, 2009. [http://go.utlib.ca/cat/9985679; Note: you can download these two chapters as separate PDF files. Click the link provided here, and open any one of the chapters. Once you can see the reading interface open, look at the bottom and you'll see a link that says "Export to PDF." The pagination for exporting doesn't match the pagination shown in the book, but you can export these two chapters if you enter the range 10-24 for chapter 1 and 506-27 for chapter 2.] McGill, Meredith L. "Copyright and Intellectual Property: the State of the Discipline." Book History 16 (2013): 387-427. [http://go.utlib.ca/cat/7690636] Benkler, Yochai. Introduction to The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006. [http://go.utlib.ca/cat/5865188; open-access version: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/wealth_of_networks/] Fraysse, Olivier, and Mathieu O’Neil. "Hacked in the USA: Prosumption and Digital Labour." In Digital Labour and Prosumer Capitalism: the US Matrix. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2015. Lazzarato, Maurizio. "Immaterial Labour." In Radical Thought in Italy: a Potential Politics. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
Week 7 31 Oct	E-Books, Part 1 assigned reading Maxwell, John W. "E-Book Logic: We Can Do Better." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 51, no. 1 (2013): 29-47. [http://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/bsc] Simon Rowberry, "Ebookness," Convergence: the International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies [pre-print; no vol/no assigned yet] (2015): 1-18 recommended reading Pierce, Jennifer Burek. "E-Books for Young Readers: a Historical Overview of Interdisciplinary Literatures." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 51, no. 1 (2013): 105-29. [http://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/bsc]
7 Nov	Reading Week (no class)
Week 8 14 Nov	E-Books, Part 2 assigned reading Trettien, Whitney Anne. "A Deep History of Electronic Textuality: the Case of English Reprints Jhon Milton Areopagitica." Digital Humanities Quarterly 7, no. 1 (2013): http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/7/1/000150/000150.html. Galey, Alan. "The Enkindling Reciter: E-Books in the Bibliographical Imagination." Book History 15 (2012): 210-47. [http://go.utlib.ca/cat/7690636] Note: this author can be long-winded, so we'll limit our focus in class mainly to section 2 ("Digital Texts as Bibliographical Objects") and section 4 ("Reading an E-Book's Expressive Form"). recommended reading Kenna, Hilary. "Touching the Text of T.S. Elio's 'The Waste Land': a Critical Discussion of Interactive Design and Screen Typography for an iPad E-Book." Book 2.0 1, no. 2 (2011): 207-238. [http://go.utlib.ca/cat/10171334] Benton, Megan L. "Typography and Gender: Remasculating the Early Modern Book." In Illuminating Letters: Typography and Literary Interpretation, ed. Paul C. Gutjahr and Megan L. Benton (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001), 71-93. [Benton - typography and gender.pdf] Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures Under Ground (1864 manuscript book), digitized by the British Library Toronto Review of Books, "Chris Stevens on Alice for the iPad, Book Apps, and Toronto: a Q & A": http://www.torontoreviewofbooks.com/2012/01/chris-stevens-on-alice/
Week 9 21 Nov	Books and the Prehistory of Digitization: Sound and Image assigned reading Ruberry, Matthew. "Canned Literature: the Book After Edison." Book History 16 (2013): 215-45. [http://go.utlib.ca/cat/7690636] Mak, Bonnie. "Archaeology of a Digitization." Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology 65, no. 8 (2014): 1515-26. [http://simplelink.library.utoronto.ca/url.cfm/492440] recommended reading FirstSounds.org Sterne, Jonathan, MP3: the Meaning of a Format (Durham, NC: Duke University Press), and The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction (Durham, NC: Duke University Press) Auslander, Philip, Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture, 2nd ed. (London: Routledge, 2008) Early English Books Online Terras, Melissa, Digital Images for the Information Professional (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2008) Kirschenbaum, Matthew G. "Extreme Inscription: Towards a Grammatology of the Hard Drive." Text Technology 13, no. 2 (2004): 91–125. See also the updated version, which appears as a chapter in his book Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination. Rubery, Matthew, ed. Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies (New York: Routledge, 2011).
Week 10 28 Nov	Case Study: Coach House Books and Publishing in Canada guest speaker: Alana Wilcox, Editorial Director, Coach House Books assigned reading MacSkimming, Roy. "Printed in Canada by Mindless Acid Freaks." In The Perilous Trade: Book Publishing in Canada, 1946-2006. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2007. [MacSkimming - Mindless Acid Freaks.pdf] Maxwell, John. "Coach House Press in the 'Early Digital' Period: a Celebration," The Devil's Artisan: a Journal of the Printing Arts 77 (2015): 9-20. recommended reading bpNicol, First Screening: Computer Poems Geof Huth, "First Meaning: the Digital Poetry Incunabula of bpNicol" Goodman, Nelson. "Art and Authenticity." In Languages of Art: an Approach to a Theory of Symbols. 2nd ed. (Indianappolis: Hackett, 1976), 99–123. [Goodman - art and authenticity.pdf]
Week 11 5 Dec	Reading Interfaces: the History and Future of the Page assigned reading Bornstein, George. "How to Read a Page: Modernism and Material Textuality." Studies in the Literary Imagination 32, no. 1 (1999): 29-58. [http://go.utlib.ca/cat/7757767] Johnson, Steven. "The Glass Box and the Commonplace Book." Lecture given at Columbia University, 21 April 2010. StevenBerlinJohnson.com (posted 22 April 2010). recommended reading Mak, Bonnie. How the Page Matters. University of Toronto Press, 2011. Piper, Andrew. "Turning the Page (Roaming, Zooming, Streaming)." In Book Was There: Reading in Electronic Times. University of Chicago Press, 2012. [Piper - turning the page.pdf] Schofield, Scott, and Jennette Webber. "Opening the Early Modern Toolbox: the Digital Interleaf and the Digital Commonplace Book." Scholarly and Research Communication 4, no. 3 (2013): http://src-online.ca/index.php/src/article/view/127. Peter Stoicheff and Andrew Taylor. "Introduction: Architectures, Ideologies, and Materials of the Page." In The Future of the Page, ed. Stoicheff and Taylor (University of Toronto Press, 2007), 3–25. [Stoicheff and Taylor - intro.pdf]
Week 12 12 Dec	Books of Futures Past assigned reading Uzanne, Octave. "The End of Books." Scribner's Magazine 26 (July-December 1894): 221-31. [Uzanne - End of Books.pdf] Asheim, Lester. "New Problems in Plotting the Future of the Book." Library Quarterly 25, no. 4 (1955): 281-92. [http://go.utlib.ca/cat/7731130] recommended reading Harding, Robert Coupland. "A Hundred Years Hence." Typo 8 (27 January 1894): 1. [http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-corpus-typo.html]