Designed to help foster new research and facilitate a wider dissemination of research and ideas, this fifth volume in an ongoing series of working papers explores selected themes on the relationship between technology and literature. Three papers are presented which represent a sampling of the themes that could be pursued through literature in a variety of technology and society courses. The first paper, "Technology, Romanticism, and Blake" by Mark L. Greenberg, reviews romanticist William Blake's response to the impact of contemporary book printing technology on writing and artistic form. In the second paper, "Technology, Pynchon, and the Meaning of Death," Lance Schachterle explores novelist Thomas Pynchon's critique of technology and focuses on how the fear of death is routinized by technology. "Literature as Technology," by Joseph W. Slade, the third paper, notes the similarities between science and literature. Comments and responses to the three papers are offered by Edward J. Gallagher. He applies the notion of three levels of consciousness to the different approaches reflected in each of the papers and explains how they may be utilized in a course on literature and technology. (ML)