Goblin from Arthur Rackham illustrations for Rosetti's Goblin Market

Fall 2002:: ENG 1131: Writing Through Media

For this class, you will need to purchase 5 texts.
The required books will be available only at the Florida Bookstore, volume 1 or 2. Please see their website for directions.

1. One of these video games:
Max Payne, Grand Theft Auto 3, The Longest Journey, OR American McGee's Alice. The class MUST be fairly even in the distribution of these games, so if you sign up late, you may not get the game of your choice, so do not buy the game before you know what you have been assigned.
There will be a signup sheet for these immediately after drop add; check the system requirements against your system for each game and pick your game accordingly and tell me if you have special system needs; BUT REMEMBER that you may not get your first game choice.
These will not be available at the bookstore. You must buy this from another store or online. I'd advise checking Best Buy, Media Play, Software Etc., Target, and other local stores. You must have this by the end of the second week of class so begin looking for this immediately after you have been assigned a game.

2. Douglas, J. Yellowlees. The End of Books — Or Books without End?Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2000. This will be our main textbook for the class.

3. Miller, Frank. The Big Fat Kill: A Tale from Sin City. Darkhorse Comics: 1996.

4. Hiroaki Samura. Blade of the Immortal: Dreamsong. Trans. Dana Lewis and Toren Smith. Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse Comics, 1999.

5. One additional video game, hypertext, or website of choice for part of the final project: this must be chosen by the third week of class so you have time to work with the text and so ordering complications don't ruin your grade by thwarting your work with the text.

Recommended Texts

1. Good dictionary (the OED online is great, www.dictionary.com is usable).

Williams, Robin and John Tollett. The Non-Designer's Web Book, 2nd Edition. Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press, 2000.

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