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The aim of the course is to familiarize its participants with current thinking about mediality and media in the context of literary studies. Although the discourse of contemporary humanities is permeated by media theory, in literary studies the concept is relatively new and open to different interpretations. During the seminar we will discuss texts by significant figures of media theory who directly address literature or work within a broader media framework with literature as part of an overall picture. Two questions will run through the whole course: the problem of the genesis and development of individual media, as well as the general concept of medium, and the possibility of replacement of the paradigm of arts by the paradigm of media. First we will focus on the concept of media, its genealogy, theory, and definitions (John Guillory, Walter Benjamin, Lars Elleström). Then we will discuss mediality of texts within the framework of three consecutive cultures defined by writing, printing, and digital communication, with regard to the relationship of text, technics, thinking, and memory (Walter J. Ong, Bernard Stiegler, Katherine N. Hayles). Finally we will concentrate on distinctive aspects of mediality of literature: literary intermediality, immersivity vs. interactivity, and contemporary electronic literature (Werner Wolf, Marie-Laure Ryan, John David Zuern). The course will also include seminars dedicated to interpretations of literary texts in media framework (Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Sally Rooney). Poslední úprava: Šebek Josef, Mgr., Ph.D. (20.01.2023)
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Reading of theoretical and literary texts in English every week, presentation, short essay in preparation for the final Symposium. Poslední úprava: Šebek Josef, Mgr., Ph.D. (20.01.2023)
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Benjamin, Walter: The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media, eds. Michael W. Jennings, Brigid Doherty, Thomas Y. Levin. Cambridge, MA, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2008. Bolter, Jay David – Grusin, Richard: Remediation: Understanding New Media. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press 1999. Elleström, Lars: Media Transformation: The Transfer of Media Characteristics Among Media. Basingstoke – New York, Palgrave Macmillan 2014. Elleström, Lars: “The Modalities of Media: A Model for Understanding Intermedial Relations.” In Lars Elleström (ed.): Media Borders, Multimodality and Intermediality. London, Palgrave Macmillan 2010, s. 11–48. Chartier, Roger: Forms and Meanings: Texts, Performances, and Audiences from Codex to Computer. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press 1995. Gitelman, Lisa: Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press 2006. Goody, Alex: Technology, Literature and Culture. Cambridge, Polity Press 2011. Guillory, John: “Genesis of the Media Concept.” Critical Inquiry 36, 2010, no. 2, pp. 321–362. Hayles, N. Katherine: Electronic Literature: New Horizons of the Literary. Notre Dame, IN, University of Notre Dame Press, 2008. Hayles, N. Katherine: My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press 2005. Hayles, N. Katherine: “Translating Media: Why We Should Rethink Textuality.” The Yale Journal of Criticism 16, 2003, č. 2, s. 263–290. Hayles, N. Katherine – Pressman, Jessica (eds.): Comparative Textual Media: Transforming the Humanities in the Postprint Era. Minneapolis – London, The University of Minnesota Press 2013. Kittler, Friedrich A.: Gramophone, Film, Typewriter. Transl. Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, Michael Wutz. Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press 2017 [1986]. Lister, Martin – Dovey, Jon – Giddings, Seth – Grant, Iain – Kelly, Kieran: New Media: A Critical Introduction. London – New York, Routledge 2009 [2003]. Manovich, Lev: The Language of New Media. Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press 2001. McLuhan, Marshall: Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. London, Routledge 1964. McQuail, Dennis – Deuze, Mark: McQuail’s Media & Mass Communication Theory. 7th ed. London, Sage 2020 [1983]. Mitchell, W. J. T. – Hansen, Mark B. N. (eds.): Critical Terms for Media Studies. Chicago – London, University of Chicago Press 2010. Ong, Walter J.: Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. 30th Anniversary Edition. London – New York, Routledge 2012 [1982]. Rudrum, David – Stavris, Nicholas (eds.): Supplanting the Postmodern: An Anthology of Writings on the Arts and Culture of the Early 21st Century. London, Bloomsbury 2015. Ryan, Marie-Laure: Narrative as Virtual Reality: Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media. Baltimore – London, The Johns Hopkins University Press 2001. Stiegler, Bernard: Technics and Time. 1: The Fault of Epimetheus. Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press 1998. Williams, Raymond: Television: Technology and Cultural Form. London, Routledge 2003 [1974]. Winthrop-Young, Geoffrey: Kittler and the Media. Cambridge, Polity Press 2011. Wolf, Werner: “Musicalized Fiction and Intermediality: Theoretical Aspects of Word and Music Studies.” In Selected Essays on Intermediality by Werner Wolf (1992–2014). Theory and Typology, Literature-Music Relations, Transmedial Narratology, Miscellaneous Transmedial Phenomena, ed. Walter Bernhart. Leiden – Boston, Brill – Rodopi 2018, pp. 238–258. Wolf, Werner: The Musicalization of Fiction: A Study in the Theory and History of Intermediality. Amsterdam, Rodopi 1999. Poslední úprava: Šebek Josef, Mgr., Ph.D. (20.01.2023)
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I. Introduction II. What is a Medium? Genealogy, Theory, Definitions (Guillory, Benjamin, Elleström) III. Cultural Techniques: Writing, Memory, Digital Text (Ong, Stiegler, Hayles) IV. Literature as Medium: Intermediality, Immersivity, New Media (Wolf, Ryan, Zuern) Poslední úprava: Šebek Josef, Mgr., Ph.D. (20.01.2023)
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