A Truncated Reading List

Below is a truncated list of sources relevant to our discussion; the sources are separated by bold markers. The original MLA bibliographic indentation was altered by the format of the blog.

Antonijevic, L. Johnson, C. Ratliff, & J. Reyman (Eds.), Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric,   Community, and Culture of Weblogs. June 2004. Web. 10 June 2005. <http://

            blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/women_and_children.html>.

Asher, Lyell. “The Dangerous Fruit of St. Augustine’s Confessions.” Journal of the           American Academy of Religion 66.2 (1998): 227-255. Print.

Ashley, Kathleen, et al., eds. Autobiography and Postmodernism. Amherst,            Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994. Print.

Badger, Meredith. "Visual Blogs." Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and          Culture of Weblogs." Ed. Laura J. Gurak, Smiljana Antonijevic, Laurie Johnson,          Clancy Ratliff, and Jessica Reyman. June 2004. Web. 10 April 2005 <http://

            blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/visual_blogs.html>.

Bakhtin, Mikhail. The Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics. Minneapolis: University of          Minnesota Press, 1999. Print.

---. The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by M.M. Bakhtin. Austin, Texas:           University of Texas Press, 1983. Print.

---.  Speech Genres and Other Late Essays. Tr. Vern W. McGee, ed. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1986. Print.

Bolter, Jay David. Writing Space: Computers, Hypertext, and the Remediation of Print.      New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001. Print.

Brown, Peter. St. Augustine of Hippo. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967.        Print.

Charney, David. “The Effect of Hypertext on Processes of Reading and Writing.”             Literacy and Computers: The Complications of Teaching and Learning with    Technology. Eds. Cynthia L. Selfe and Susan Hilligoss. New York: MLA, 1994.      238-263. Print.

Conway, Jill Kerr. When Memory Speaks: Reflections on Autobiography. New York:         Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. Print.

Coullie, Judith. “Not Quite Fiction: The Challenges of Poststructuralism to the Reading    of Contemporary Autobiography.” Current Writing. 3. (1991): 57-69. Print.

---. “(Dis)Locating Selves: Izibongo and Narrative Autobiography in South            Africa.”  Oral Literature and Performance in South Africa. Ed. Duncan Brown.    London and Cape Town: James Currey and David Philip, 1999. Print.

de Man, Paul. “Autobiography as Defacement” Comparative Literature. 94:5 (1979): 919-930. Print.      

Dillon, A. and  B. A. Gushrowsk. “Genres and the Web: Is the Personal Home Page the    First Uniquely Digital Genre?” Journal of the American Society for Information      Science 51:2 (2000): 202-205. Print.

Eisenstein, Elizabeth. The Printing Press as an Agent of Change. Cambridge, United         Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 1980. Print.

Eakin, Paul John. Fictions in Autobiography: Studies in the Art of Self-Invention.     Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1985. Print.

Egan, Susanna. Mirror Talk: Genres of Crisis in Contemporary Autobiography. Chapel      Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Print.

Gaggi, Silvio. From Text to Hypertext: Decentering the Subject in Fiction, Film, the           Visual Arts and Electronic Media. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press,         1997. Print.

Gay, Volney. “St. Augustine: The Reader as Selfobject.” Journal for the Scientific Study    of Religion (1986): 64-76. Print.

Gee, James Paul. What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy.        New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2003. Print.

Goffman, Erving. The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life. New York: Anchor           Books, 1959. Print.

Gurak, Laura J. Cyberliteracy: Navigating the Internet with Awareness. New Haven:          Yale University Press, 2001. Print.

---. Persuasion and Privacy in Cyberspace. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.        Print.

Grusin, Richard. “What Is an Electronic Author?” Virtual Realities and Their         Discontents. Robert Markley, ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1996.             39-53. Print.

Hafner, Katie. “I Link Therefore I Am: A Web Intellectual’s Diary.” New York Times 22 July 1999. n. pag. Web. 20 May 2009.

Hawisher, Gail, et al. Computers and the Teaching of Writing in American Higher Education. Stamford, CT: Ablex, 1996. Print.

Hawisher, Gail & Cynthia Selfe, (Eds.). Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st Century    Technologies. Logan: Utah State University Press, 1999. Print.

Hayles, Kathleen N. Writing Machines. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002. Print.

Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who Was Anybody. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1975.    Print.

Inman, James. Computers and Writing: The Cyborg Era. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2004.      Print.

Jay, Paul. Being in the Text: Self-Representation from Wordsworth to Roland Barthes. Cornell, NY: Cornell University Press, 1984. Print.

Johnson-Eilola, Johndan. “Reading and Writing in Hypertext: Vertigo and Euphoria.”       Literacy and Computers: The Complications of Teaching and Learning with    Technology. Eds. Cynthia L. Selfe and Susan Hilligoss. New York: MLA, 1994.      195-219. Print.

Joyce, Michael. Of Two Minds: Hypertext, Pedagogy and Poetics. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996. Print.

Kress, G. and Van Leeuwen, T. Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design.             London: Routledge, 1996. Print.

Lanham, Richard A. The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology and the Arts.   Chicago, U of Chicago Press, 1993. Print.

Lejeune, Phillipe. Le pacte autobiographique. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1975. Print.

Lessig, Lawrence. The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in the Connected            World. New York: Random House, 2001. Print.

---. Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. New York: Basic Books, 2001. Print.

Lusebrink, Hans-Jurgen. “The Dynamics of Autobiography: From Anthropological            Anchorage to the Intercultural Horizons.” Mot Pluriels. 23 (March 2003): 1-11.           Print.

Murray, J. H. Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narratives in Cyberspace.     Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997. Print.

Olney, James. Metaphors of Self: The Meaning of Autobiography. Princeton, NJ:    Princeton University Press, 1972. Print.

---., ed. Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Critical.  Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1980. Print.

Olson, David. The World on Paper. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Print.

Ong, Walter J. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. New York:   Routledge, 1982. Print.

Padover, Saul., ed. Confessions and Self-Portraits: 4600 Years of Autobiography. New      York: The John Day Company, 1957. Print.

Pascal, Roy. Design and Truth in Autobiography. New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul,    1960. Print.

Porter, James E. “Legal and Ethical Issues in Cyberspace.” Rhetorical Ethics and   Internetworked Writing. London: Ablex Publishing Corporation, 1998. 101-31.            Print.

Rouet, Jean-Francios, Jarmo J. Levonen, Andrew Dillon, and Rand J. Spiro, Eds. Hypertext and Cognition. Mahwah: Erlbaum, 1996. Print.

Sampson, Geoffrey. Writing Systems. London: Hutchinson, 1985. Print.

Schreibman, Susan. “Computer-mediated Texts and Textuality: Theory and Practice.”       Computers and the Humanities. 36.3 (2002): 283-293. Print.

Simon, Linda., ed. Gertrude Stein: A Composite Portrait. New York: Avon Books, 1974.

---., ed. Gertrude Stein Remembered. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press,     1994. Print.

Smith, Sidonie. A Poetics of Women’s Autobiography: Marginality and the Fictions of        Self-Representation.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987. Print.

Smith, Sidonie and Julia Watson. Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life    Narratives. University of Minnesota Press, 2001. Print.

Spengemann, William. The Forms of Autobiography. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale         University Press, 1980. Print.

Sullivan, Laura. “Hypertextualizing Autobiography” Kairos. 1.3 (1996): Web. 25 Sept.     2005 <http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/index.html>.

Turkle, Sherry. Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. New York: Simon      and Schuster, 1995. Print.

Voloshinov, Valentin. Marxism and the Philosophy of Language. Cambridge, MA:            Harvard University Press, 1986. Print.

Warley, Linda. “Reading the Autobiographical in Personal Home Pages.” Tracing the        Autobiographical. Ed. Marlene Kandar. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier             University Press, 2005. 25-42. Print.

Watts, Jane. Black Writers from South Africa: Towards a Discourse of Liberation. London: St Antony’s/Macmillan, 1989. Print.

Weintraub, Karl. “Autobiography and Historical Consciousness.” Critical Inquiry 1.4        (1975): 821-848. Print.

---. The Value of the Individual: Self and Circumstance in Autobiography.    Chicago:          University of Chicago Press, 1978. Print.

Wilcox, Helen, ed. Women and Literature in Britain, 1500-1700. Cambridge, UK:             Cambridge University Press, 1996. Print.

Wysocki, Anne, et al. Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the       Teaching of Composition. Logan: Utah State Univ. Press, 2004. Print.

Yancey, Kathleen Blake. “Made Not Only in Words: Composition in a New Key.” CCC 56.2 (2004): 297-328. Print.