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This list contains works which may be read by students as further reading for assignments in which research or related discussion may be helpful to your writing and/or critical projects. The books hereunder describe a wide range of "related" work - from philosophy to theater studies to biology - so that any number of interdisciplinary projects may be explored.

 

Acker, Kathy

Bodies of Work: Essays

Adorno, T.W.

The Jargon of Authenticity

  The Authoritarian Personality

Allison, Dorothy

Skin: Talking About Sex, Class and Literature

Alter, Jean

A Socio-semiotic Theory of Theater

Amato & Fleischer

"Reforming Creative Writing Pedagogy: history as knowledge, knowledge as activism" online @ altx.com/ebr

Amrine, F., ed.

Literature and Science as Modes of Expression

Anzaldua, Gloria

Borderlands: The New Mestiza=la Frontera

Arendt, Hannah

The Human Condition

 

The Life of the Mind

 

The Origins of Totalitarianism

Aristotle

Organon

 

Poetics

 

Rhetoric

Artaud, Antonin

The Theater and its Double

Bachelard, Gaston

The Poetics of Space

Baker ed.

Onward: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics

Baldwin, James

Collected Essays

 

The Price of the Ticket

Barthes, Roland

Camera Lucida

 

Mythologies

 

S/Z

 

The Pleasure of the Text

 

The Responsibility of Forms

Bataille

Eroticism: Death and Sensuality

Bateson, Gregory

Men Are Grass...

 

Mind and Nature...

 

Steps to an Ecology of Mind

Baudelaire, Charles

The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays

Baudrillard, Jean

The Transparency of Evil

Beach, ed., Christopher

Artifice and Indeterminacy

Benjamin, Walter

Illuminations

Bentley, Eric

Critical Works: What is Theater?

 

The Brecht Commentaries

Berger, John

Another Way of Telling

 

Ways of Seeing

Bergson, Henri

Laughter

 

The Creative Mind

 

Time and Free Will

Bernstein, Charles, ed.

Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word

 

The Politics of Poetic Form

Bigelow, Gordon

The Poet's Third Eye

Blackmer, Corrine

En Travesti: Gender, Subversion, Opera

Blanchot, Maurice The Writing of the Disaster
Blau, Herbert Take Up the Bodies: Theater at the Vanishing Point
  The Audience

Boal, Augusto

Games for Actors and Non-Actors

 

Theater of the Oppressed

Bogart, Anne

Viewpoints

Borges, Jorge Luis

Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings

 

Selected Non-Fictions

 

Seven Nights

Boman, Lars Criticism and Construction in the Philosophy of the American New Realism

Borroughs, William

The Adding Machine: Selected Essays

Bourdieu, Pierre

Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste

Bowers, Jane Palatini They Watch Me as They Watch This: Gertrude Stein's Metadrama

Bowles & Gintis

Schooling in Democratic America

Brathwaite, Kamau

Roots

Bruns, Gerald

Modern Poetry and the Idea of Language

Buber, Martin

I and Thou

Buzan, Barry The Logic of Anarchy: Neorealism to Structural Realism

Calvino, Italo

Six Memos for the Next Millenium

Canguilhem, Georges The Normal and the Pathological

Capra, Fritjof

The Tao of Physics

Carson, Rachel

Silent Spring

Cassirer, Ernst

Language and Myth

Cavell, Stanley

A Pitch of Philosophy

In Quest of the Ordinary

Must We Mean What We Say?

The Claim of Reason

Caws, Mary Ann, ed

Manifesto: A Century of Isms

Clifford, James, ed.

Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography

Conrad, Peter

Romantic Opera and Literary Form

Conte, Joseph

Unending Design: the Forms of Postmodern Poetry

Copeland, Roger, ed.

What is Dance?

Cromwell, Jason

Transmen and FTMs

Danto, Arthur

Beyond the Brillo Box: Art in Post-Historical Perspective

 

The Transfiguration of the Commonplace

Darwin, Charles

The Origin of the Species

Davenport, Guy

The Geography of the Imagination: 40 Essays

Davis, Angela

Women, Race and Class

De Laurentis, Teresa

Technologies of Gender: Theory, Film, Fiction

Delany, Samuel

Longer Views

 

Shorter Views

Deleuze, Gilles

A Thousand Plateaus

 

Anti-Oedipus

 

Bergsonism

 

The Deleuze Reader

  Nomadology: The War Machine

Dolan, Jill

Feminist Spectator as Critic

Doniger, Wendy

Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in India and Greece

Dorfman, Ariel

How to Read Donald Duck

Douglas, J. Yellowlees

The End of Books or Books Without End? Reading Interactive Narratives

Drucker, Johanna

Figuring the Word

Du Bois, W.E.B.

The Souls of Black Folk

Du Plessis, Rachel Blau, ed.

The Objectivist Nexus: Essays in Cultural Poetics

Duberman, Martin Black Mountain: An Exploration in Community

Duncan, Robert

Fictive Certainties

Eco, Umberto, et al

Interpretation and Overinterpretation

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Self-Reliance and Other Essays

Evernden, Neil

The Natural Alien

Fanon, Franz

Black Skin, White Masks

 

The Wretched of the Earth

Felshin, Nina

But is it Art? The Spirit of Art as Activism

Foreman, Richard

Balancing Acts

Forster, E.M.

Aspects of the Novel

Foster, Hal

Postmodern Culture

 

Recodings

 

The Return of the Real

Foster, Paul

Beckett and Zen

Foster, Steven C. Dada: The Coordinates of Cultural Politics
 

Dada Spectrum: The Dialectics of Revolt

Freire, Paulo Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy and Civic Courage
  The Paulo Freire Reader

Freud, Sigmund

"The Rat Man"

 

"The Uncanny"

 

Civilization and its Discontents

 

Delusion and Dream

Fried, Michael

Absorption and Theatricality

Fuller, R. Buckminster

Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking

  Education Automation: Freeing the Scholar to Return to his Studies

Gann, Kyle

American Music in the 20th Century

Garber, Marjorie

Vested Interests: Cross Dressing and Cultural Anxiety

Gass, William

The Word Within the World

Gates, Henry L.

"Race" Writing and Difference

 

Figures in Black

 

The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism

Gilroy, Paul

The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness

Ginsberg, Allen

Allen Verbatim: Lectures on Poetry, Politics and Consciousness

 

Deliberate Prose: Selected Essays

Gizzi, Peter

The House that Jack Built: the Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer

Glass, Philip

Music by Philip Glass

Goffman, Erving

Relations in Public

 

Stigma

Goldberg, Rose Lee

Performance: Live Art since 1960

 

Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present

Gombrich, E.H.

Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation

Gomez-Pena, Guillermo

Dangerous Border Crossers: The Artist Talks Back

Gould, Stephen Jay

The Mismeasure of Man

Greenberg, Allan Artists and Revolution: Dada and the Bauhaus

Gross, Alan

The Rhetoric of Science

Hagberg, G.L.

Art as Language

Hale, Jacob

"Consuming the Living" JGLS, Duke Univ. Transgender Issue, v.4, no.2, 1998

Haraway, Donna

Primate Visions

 

Simians, Cyborgs and Women

Hayden, V.

Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect

Hayles, N. Katherine

Chaos and Order: Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science

 

Chaos Bound

 

How We Became Posthuman

Heidegger, Martin

Poetry, Language, Thought

 

The Question of Technology

Hejinian, Lyn

The Language of Inquiry

Henderson, Linda

The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art

Howe, Susan

My Emily Dickenson

 

The Birthmark

Huxley, Michael, ed.

The 20th Century Performance Reader

Icrin, Gill Philosophical Realism

Jackson, Shelley

Stitch Bitch: Hypertext overview (online @ ineradicablestain.com)

Jameson, Frederic

Brecht and Method

 

The Prison-House of Language

 

The Political Unconscious

Jones, Andrew Plunderphonics, Pataphysics, and Popular Mechanics

Jordanova, Ludmilla, ed.

Languages of Nature: Critical Essays on Science and Literature

Jung, C.G.

Synchronicity

Kierkegaard, Soren

Fear and Trembling

Kim, Elaine, ed.

Writing Self/Writing Nation: On Teresa Cha's Dictee

Kittler, Friedrich Gramophone, Film, Typewriter

Kraus, Rosalind

October #6, #9

Kristeva, Julia

Powers of Horror

Kuenzli, Rudolf, ed.

Marcel Duchamp: Artist of the Century

Kuhn, Thomas

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Kundera, Milan

Testaments Betrayed

 

The Art of the Novel

Langer, Suzanne

Feeling and Form

Latour, Bruno We Have Never Been Modern
  Science in Action

Lao Tzu,

The Tao te Ching

Le Guin, Ursula K.

Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

Lear, Jonathan

Love and Its Place in Nature

 

Open Minded

Lemon & Reis, trans

Russian Formalist Criticism: Four Essays

Levin, David, ed.

Opera Through Other Eyes

Lippard, Lucy

Changing

 

Get the Message? A Decade of Art for Social Change

 

Mixed Blessings: New Art in Multi-Cultural America

 

On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art and Place

 

The Lure of the Local

List, Peter, ed. Radical Environmentalism: Philosophy and Tactics

Lodge, David

After Bakhtin: Essays on Fiction and Criticism

Lukacs, George

Studies in European Realism

 

The Theory of the Novel

Lyotard, Jean-Francois

The Postmodern Condition

Macheray, Pierre

A Theory of Literary Production

Mackay, Nathaniel

Discrepant Engagements: Dissonance, Cross-Culturality and Experimental Writing

Marcuse, Herbert

One Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

Marranca, Bonnie

Ecologies of Theater

Marranca, Bonnie, ed

The Theater of Images

Marx, Karl

On bureaucracy

Maso, Carole

Break Every Rule

Mathews, Harry, ed.

Oulipo Compendium

Maturana, Humberto

The Tree of Knowledge: Biological Roots of Human Understanding

McCann, Christopher

Four Phenomenological Philosophers

McKeon, Michael, ed.

The Theory of the Novel

McLuhan, Marshal

City as Classroom

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice

The Prose of the World

Mitchell, Angelyn Within the Circle: An Anthology of Afro-American Literary Criticism

Montaigne, Michel de

Essays

Morris, Adalaide

Sound States: Innovative Poetics and Acoustical Technologies

Morrison, Toni

Whiteness in the American Literary Imagination

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Decolonizing the Mind

Nichols, David

American Experimental Music 1890-1940

Nielson, A.L.

Black Chants: Languages of African-American Postmodernism

 

Reading Race in American Poetry

 

Reading Race: White American Poets and Racial Discourse

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The Birth of Tragedy and Geneology of Morals

 

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

North, Michael

The Dialect of Modernism: Race, Language and 20th Century Literature

Novarina, Valere

The Theater of the Ears

Olson, Charles

Selected Writings

O'Neill, Patrick

Fictions of Discourse: Reading Narrative Theory

Ong, Walter

Orality and Literacy

Orr, David

Ecological Literacy

Ortega y Gasset, Jose

Notes on the Novel

 

The Dehumanization of Art

O'Sullivan, Maggie

Out of Everywhere: Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America and U.K.

Panofsky, Erwin

Perspective as Symbolic Form

Pavis, Patrice

Languages of the Stage

Perloff, Marjorie

John Cage: Composed in America

 

Postmodern Genres

 

Radical Artifice: Poetry in the Age of Media

 

The Poetics of Indeterminacy

 

Wittgenstein's Ladder

Pierce, John R.

An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise

Poizat, Michel

The Angel's Cry: Beyond the Pleasure Principle in Opera

Pound, Ezra

The ABC's of Reading

Prigogine, Ilya

The End of Certainty

Pritchett, James

The Music of John Cage

Quammen, David

The Song of the Dodo

Raven, Arlene, ed.

Art in the Public Interest

Retallack, Joan

The Poethical Wager

Review of Contemp Fiction

Antin 2001, Maso/Queneau 1997, Beckett 1987, Future of Fiction 1996

Rich, Adrienne

On Lies, Secrets and Silence

Rich, Alan

The American Pioneers: Ives to Cage

Robbe-Grillet, Alain

For A New Novel

Rorty, Richard

Contingency, irony, and solidarity

 

Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature

Ryan, Paul

Video Mind, Earth Mind: Art, Communications and Ecology

Sabin, R.

Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels

Said, Edward

Culture and Imperialism

 

Orientalism

Sanders, Ed

Investigative Poetry

Sanders, Jay, ed.

Poetry Plastique

Sarraute, Nathalie

The Uses of Speech

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Saint Genet

Schipper, Mineke

Beyond the Boundaries: Text and Context in African Literature

Schlovsky, Viktor

"Art as Technique"

Scott, Bonnie, ed.

The Gender of Modernism

Scott, Gail

La Theorie, un dimanche

 

Spaces Like Stairs

Sheppard, Richard Modernism-Dada-Postmodernism

Silverman, Kaja

Beyond the Visible World

 

The Subject of Semiotics

 

World Spectators

Singh, A., ed.

Postcolonial Theory and the U.S: Race, Ethnicity and Literature

Sitney, P. Adams

Modernist Montage

Smith, Keith

Text in the Book Format

Sogyal, Rinpoche

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

Sontag, Susan

Aids and its Metaphors

 

Illness as Metaphor

 

On Photography

Spahr, Juliana

Everybody's Autonomy

Spivak, Gayatri C.

A Critique of Postcolonial Reason

 

In Other Worlds

 

Outside in the Teaching Machine

States, Bert O.

The Pleasure of the Play

States, Burt

Great Reckonings in Little Rooms

Stauber, John

Toxic Sludge is Good for You! Lies, Damn Lies and the PR Industry

Stein, Gertrude

"Portraits and Repetition"

 

"Composition as Explanation"

 

"Narration: Four Lectures"

 

"Plays"

 

"What are Masterpieces"

 

How to Write

Sukenick, Ron

Degenerative Prose

 

In Form: Digressions on the Art of Fiction

 

Narralogues, Truth in Fiction

Suvin, Darko

To Brecht and Beyond: Soundings in Modern Dramaturgy

Suzuki, D.T.

Introduction to Zen Buddhism

 

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Syverson, M.A.

The Wealth of Reality: An Ecology of Composition

Tabbi, J., ed.

Reading Matters: Narrative in the New Media Ecology

Taruskin, R.

Text and Act: Essays on Music and Performance

Taussig, Michael

Mimesis and Alterity

The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader

Thomas, Lorenzo

Extraordinary Measures: Afrocentric Modernism and 20th Century American Poetry

Todorov, Tzvetan

The Poetics of Prose

 

Theories of the Symbol

Tolstoy, Leo

What is Art?

Tomkins, Calvin

The Bride and the Bachelors: Duchamp, Tinguely,Cage, Raushenberg, Cunningham

Toqueville, Alexis de

Democracy in America

Trinh, T. Minh-ha

Woman, Native, Other: Writing, Postcoloniality and Feminism

Venturi, R.

Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form

Vitz, Paul C.

Modern Art and Modern Science: The Parallel Analysis of Vision

Wagner, Richard

On Music and Drama

 

The Artwork of the Future

Waldman, Anne

Vow to Poetry

Warhol, Andy

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

Wellman, Mac

"A Chrestomathy of 22 Answers..."

 

"The Theater of Good Intentions"

White, Hayden

The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Represenation

Wilde, Oscar

"The Critic as Artist"

 

"The Decay of Lying"

 

"The Truth of Masks"

Wilhelm/Baynes, trans.

The I Ching

Willett, John, ed.

Brecht on Theater: the Development of an Aesthetic

Williams, William Carlos

Imaginations

Wittig, Monique

The Straight Mind and Other Essays

Wojnarowicz, David

Brush Fires in the Social Landscape

Woods, Tim

Beginning Postmodernism

Worringer

Abstraction and Empathy

Yu-Lan Fung

A Short History of Chinese Philosophy

Zweig, Janet

"Ars Combinatoria" (in Art Journal, fall 1997)

 

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