General information
| Course type | AMUPIE |
| Module title | Literature and New Media |
| Language | English |
| Module lecturer | dr Mariusz Pisarski |
| Lecturer's email | konradd@amu.edu.pl |
| Lecturer position | Specjalista zewnętrzny; uczestnik projektu naukowego |
| Faculty | Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology |
| Semester | 2024/2025 (winter) |
| Duration | 30 |
| ECTS | 5 |
| USOS code | 03-AP-LNM |
Timetable
Online Classes
Contact to Lecturer: mariusz.pisarski@amu.edu.pl
Online classes: MS Teams, Tuesday, 9.45-11.15.
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.