Required Texts:

DeLillo, Don. White Noise. New York: Penguin, 1998.

McLuhan, Marshall and Quentin Fiore. The Medium is the Massage: An
      Inventory of Effects. New York: Ginko P, 2001.

Williams, Joseph. Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace. New York:
      Longman, 2003.

Unless distributed in class, all other course readings can be viewed and printed out in .pdf format by clicking on the links below and inserting the appropriate password when prompted:

Anzaldua, Gloria. Borderlands: The New Mestiza. San Francisco: Aunt Lute      Books, 1987. Chapter 1 / Chapter 2 / Chapter 7

Turkle, Sherry. Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. New
      York: Simon and Schuster, 1995. Chapter 7 / Chapter 8 / Chapter 9

Foss, Sonja. "Metaphoric Criticism". Rhetorical Criticism: Exploration and
     Practice. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 1996.

Baudrillard, Jean. "The Precession of Simulacra". Postmodern American
      Fiction: A Norton Anthology. Ed. Paula Geyh et al. New York: Norton,
      1998.

Davis, D. Diane. "(Non)Fiction('s) Addiction(s): A NarcoAnalysis of Virtual
      Worlds". High Wired: On the Design, Use, and Theory of Educational
      MOOs. Ed. Cynthia Haynes and Jan Rune Holmevik. Ann Arbor: U of
      Michigan P, 1998.

To view .pdf files you need to download Adobe Acrobat Reader, which you can access by clicking here. For faster printing, I suggest saving all .pdf files to your hard drive before printing.