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Theory Reading List -- Mal Ahern
Barthes, Roland. The Pleasure of the Text.
Benjamin, Walter. "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." Illuminations.
Bruns, Gerald L. "The Originality of Texts in a Manuscript Culture." In Inventions:
Writing, Textuality, and Understanding in Literary History.
Deleuze, Gilles. "Nomad Thought." In The New Nietzsche.
-----. "Literature and Life." In Essays Critical and Clinical.
Derrida, Jacques. "Signature, Event, Context." In Margins of Philosophy.
Johns, Adrian. The Nature of the Book: print and knowledge in the making.
Lacan, Jacques. "The Gaze as objet petit a." In Four Fundamental Concepts
of Psychoanalysis.
McLuhan, Marshall. The Guttenberg Galaxy.
Mitchell, WJT. "Visible Language: Blake's Art of Writing." In Picture Theory.
Nissen, Hans Jorg. Archaic Bookkeeping: early writing and economic administration
in the ancient Near East.
Rothernberg, Jerome (editor). A Book of the Book: some works and projections
about the book and writing.