Literature and New Media

Timetable

Module aim (aims)

Course aim (aims):

• to become aware of and analytically apply the consequences of the digital turn in literary studies,
• learning about the ways in which digital media impact literature,
• learning about the characteristics of electronic literature and the implications of its digital born status,
• perfecting the art of interpreting a literary work in the light of its new-media existence,
• learning simple tools which allow to create e-literary works on their own and to participate in digital culture,
• practice new forms of collaboration and ways of writing conditioned by digital tools.

Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)

Syllabus

Course learning content:

Literary studies in the light of new media - reading and writing in a media environment

The multimodality and fluid boundaries of literature in the digital environment

Digital literature: practices, genres, properties

Hypertext: story construction using digital tools

Modern new media literature in relation to the Polish literary tradition

Key literary phenomena (masterpiece, canon, tendency, literary conjuncture) in relation to the functioning of writing in the world of new media

A comparison of the ways of digital functioning of the latest Polish and world literature

Reading list

• Espen Aarseth, Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature, Johns Hopkins University Press 1997.
• The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature, ed. by Joseph Tabbi, Bloomsbury Academic 2017.
• Dene Gringar, James O’Sullivan, Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities: Contexts, Forms, and Practices, Bloomsbury Academic
• Katherine Hayles, Electronic Literature. New Horizons for the Literary, University of Notre Dame Press 2007.
• Scott Rettberg, Electronic Literature, Wiley 2018.
• Roberto Simanowski Reading Moving Letters: Digital Literature in Research and Teaching. A Handbook (Mitherausgeber), Bielefeld: Transcript 2010.