MEETING TIMES (T1 2024-25)
Lecture: 1hr weekly, Time and location TBA (also posted online: see links in NOTES), Workshop: 2hrs weekly, Time and location TBA
Week 1: Introduction: What is an author? What is a book? What is publication? / Blog workshop
Week 2: A Short History of Print Culture: from Gutenberg to Areopagitica / Manifesto workshop
Week 3: Little Magazines and Modernism / Pamphlet workshop
Week 4: The Mimeograph Revolution (1960-1980) / Reviewing workshop
Week 5: Riot Grrrls / Zine workshop
Week 6: Reading Week
Week 7: Critical Printing & Digital Cultures / Chapbook workshop
Week 8: History and Theory of Letters: Typography / Typesetting workshop
Week 9: Print Activism: Region, Globe and Network / Editorial workshop
Week 10: Hybrid Formats: Bridging the Digital-Analog Divide / Distribution workshop
Illustrative Bibliography
Click here for the module Reading List.
HISTORY
Beaty, Bart. Unpopular Culture: Transforming the European Comic Book in the 1990s. University of Toronto Press, 2007.
Brinkman, Bartholomew. Poetic Modernism in the Culture of Mass Print. JHU Press, 2016.
Bury, Stephen. Breaking the Rules: The Printed Face of the European Avant Garde 1900-1937. British Library, 2007
Filreis, Alan. Counter-revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945-1960. UNC Press Books, 2012.
Golding, Alan. “Little Magazines and Alternative Canons: The Example of Origin.” From Outlaw to Classic: Canons in American Poetry. University of Wisconsin Press, 1995.
Goeser, Caroline. Picturing the New Negro: Harlem Renaissance Print Culture and Modern Black Identity. University Press of Kansas, 2007
Hair, Ross. Avant-Folk: Small Press Poetry Networks from 1950 to the Present. Liverpool University Press, 2017
Hammill, Faye and Mark Hussey. Modernism’s Print Cultures. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016.
Harris, Donal. On Company Time: American Modernism in the Big Magazines. Columbia University Press, 2016.
Harris, Kaplan. “The Small Press Traffic school of dissimulation: New Narrative, New Sentence, New Left,” Jacket2(April 2011)
Marek, Jayne E. Women Editing Modernism: “little” Magazines & Literary History. University Press of Kentucky, 1995
McKible, Adam. Little Magazines & Modernism: New Approaches. Routledge, 2016.
McMillian, John. Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America. Oxford University Press, 2011.
Mohr, Bill. “Thinking Alone in Company: L.A. Literary Magazines during the Cold War.” Hold-Outs: The Los Angeles Poetry Renaissance, 1948-1992. University of Iowa Press, 2011.
Morris, Ian and Joanne Diaz. The Little Magazine in Contemporary America. University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Orsini, Francesca, ed. The History of the Book in South Asia. Routledge, 2013.
Raymond, Joad. Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Robertson, Frances. Print Culture: From Steam Press to Ebook. Routledge, 2013.
Rothenberg, Jerome, Steven Clay and Rodney Phillips, eds. A Secret Location On The Lower East Side: Adventures in Writing 1960-1980. Granary Books, 1998.
Schreiber, Rachel. Modern Print Activism in the United States. Routledge, 2016.
Southworth, Helen, ed. Leonard and Virginia Woolf, The Hogarth Press and the Networks of Modernism. Edinburgh University Press, 2010.
THEORY & ACTION
Baughman, James L., Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen and James P. Danky. Protest on the Page: Essays on Print and the Culture of Dissent. University of Wisconsin Press, 2015.
Bhaskar, Michael. The Content Machine: Towards a Theory of Publishing from the Printing Press to the Digital Network(Anthem Publishing Studies). Anthem Press, 2013.
Bulson, Eric Jon. Little Magazine, World Form. Columbia University Press, 2016.
Cutts, Simon. Some Forms of Availability: Critical Passages on the Book and Publication. Granary Books, 2007.
Drucker, Johanna. The Visible Word: Experimental Typography and Modern Art. University of Chicago Press, 1997.
Mani, B. Venkat. Recoding World Literature: Libraries, Print Culture, and Germany’s Pact with Books. Fordham University Press, 2016.
McGann, Jerome J. Black Riders: The Visible Language of Modernism. Princeton University Press, 1993.
McLuhan, Marshall. The Gutenberg Galaxy. University of Toronto Press, 1962.
.—. (with Quentin Fiore). The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects. 1967. Gingko Press, 2001.
Rothenberg, Jerome, ed. A Book of the Book: Some Works and Projections about the Book & Writing. Granary Books, 2000.
White, Eric. Transatlantic Avant-Gardes: Little Magazines and Localist Modernism. Edinburgh University Press, 2013.
CRAFT
Bosveld, Jennifer. Chapbook on the Makeing of a Chapbook. Pudding House Publications, 2008
Bringhurst, Robert. The Elements of Typographic Style. Hartley & Marks, 2013
Campbell, Alastair. Typography Pocket Essentials. Ilex, 2014.
Cutts, Simon. Certain Trees: The Constructed Book, Poem and Object. CDLA, 2006
Harris, Elizabeth M. Personal Impressions: The Small Printing Press in Nineteenth-century America. David R. Godine, 2004
Loxley, Simon. Type: The Secret History of Letters. I.B.Tauris, Dustbooks, 2007.
Meggs, Philip B. Meggs’ History of Graphic Design. Alston W. Purvis, 2016.
BUSINESS
Fulton, Len. Directory of Small Press Magazine Editors & Publishers 2007-2008. Dustbooks, 2007.
Guthrie, Richard. Publishing: Principles & Practice. Sage Publications Ltd., 2011.
Hall, Frania. The Business of Digital Publishing. Routledge, 2013.
Smith, Kelvin. The Publishing Business: From p-books to e-books (Creative Careers). AVA, 2012.
Striphas, Ted. The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control. Columbia University Press, 2009.
Thompson, John B. Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century. Polity Press, 2012.
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