Book list

ENG 500, Fall 2008

Please order these books from the bookstore of your choice. I welcome your questions about the course.

Required texts

1. Roland Barthes, Mythologies, Hill & Wang 1972 (ISBN 0374521506)
2. Don DeLillo, White Noise, Penguin 1999 (ISBN 0140283307)
3. Sid Dobrin, Constructing Knowledges: The Politics of Theory-Building and Pedagogy in Composition, SUNY 1997 (ISBN 0791433439)
4. Gerald Graff, Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind, Yale 2003 (ISBN 0300105142)
5. Kathleen Fitzpatrick, The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of Television, Vanderbilt 2006 (ISBN 0826515207)
6. N. Katherine Hayles, Writing Machines, MIT 2002 (ISBN 0262582155)
7. Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Norton Critical Edition), Norton 2002 (ISBN 0393976378)
8. Steven Johnson, Everything Bad Is Good For You, Riverhead Trade 2006 (ISBN 1594481946)
9. Lois Tyson, Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide, Routledge 2006 (ISBN 0415974100)

Recommended texts

• F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, any edition
• James Gibaldi, MLA Style Manual, Third Edition, MLA 2008 (ISBN 0873522974)
• Joe Williams, Style: Lessons in Clarity & Grace, seventh or later edition

Bradley Dilger, Associate Professor of English, Western Illinois U
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