Main Field of Study and progress level:
Comparative Literature: First cycle, has less than 60 credits in first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
Grading scale: Pass with distinction, Pass, Fail
Responsible department: Department of Culture and Media Studies
Established by: Faculty director of studies, Faculty of arts, 2017-03-03
Contents
During the last decades we have seen a change in the ways a text can be produced and read in digital and new media. The aim of the course is to present and examine the possibilities and limitations of digital publishing, narrating and reading with the relevant theoretical standpoints this field is characterized by. The course contains of in-depths studies in different forms of online communities, digital narratives as well as the technological and cultural challenges that digital and new media posits.
Expected learning outcomes
After completing the course the student should:
demonstrate an understanding about the importance of new media in relation to reading, narrating and literary debates
demonstrate familiarity about different media- and genretexts
demonstrate ability to analyze narratives in different forms of media
demonstrate ability to reflect upon and assess the possibilities and limitations of different forms of publishing and media
demonstrate ability to relate to a wider literary context.
Required Knowledge
Literary Studies (60 credits) or equivalent.
Form of instruction
Teaching consist of lectures, seminars and teamwork.
Examination modes
The course is examined through participation in seminars and teamwork and one individually written examination. Examination is given one of the grades VG (Pass with distinction), G (Pass) or U (Fail).
A second exam opportunity is always offered within two months after the regular exam date for those students not achieving a Pass.
Students have the right to be re-examined up to five times per course. Examination and supplementary examination based on the syllabus outlined here can be guaranteed for up to two years after the start of the course. If a student is awarded a “fail” grade on at least two consecutive attempts of the examination of the course or course component, she or he has the right to request a new examiner. The director of studies should be consulted in such circumstances.
Other regulations
The course also belongs to the Program for Literary Studies and Creative Writing.
Literature
Valid from:
2017 week 44
Aarseth Espen Cybertext : perspectives on ergodic literature. Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press : 1997 : 203 s. : ISBN: 0-8018-5579-9 Search the University Library catalogue
Benjamin Walter The Storyteller Included in: The novel Oxford : Blackwell : 2006 [eg. 2005] : xiv, 821 s. : pages Kap 18, 361-378 :
Hayles N. Katherine How we think : digital media and contemporary technogenesis Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press : 2012 : 280 s. : ISBN: 978-0-226-32140-0 Search the University Library catalogue
Jenkins Henry Convergence culture : where old and new media collide New York : New York University Press : 2006 : xi, 308 p. : ISBN: 978-0-8147-4281-5 Search the University Library catalogue
Lindgren Leavenwort Maria Transmedial Narration and Fan Fiction. The Storyworld of the Vampire Diaries Included in: Storyworlds across media Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press : 2014 : 400 p. : pages 315-331 :
Lost in an iPad. : Narrative Engagement on Paper and Tablet. Mangen Anne, Kuiken Don Included in: Scientific Study of Literature John Benjamins Publishing Company : 4 : pages 150-177 :
Why Don't We Read Hypertext Novels? Mangen Anne, van der Weel Adrian Included in: Convergence London, UK : John Libbey & Co. : c1995- : pages 1-16 :
Miall David Confounding the Literarys. Temporal Problems in Hypertext Included in: From codex to hypertext Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press : 2012 : vii, 262 pages : pages Kap 10, 203-216 :
Murray Janet H. Hamlet on the holodeck : the future of narrative in cyberspace. New York : Free Press : 1997 : xii, 324 s. : ISBN: 0-684-82723-9 Search the University Library catalogue
Ong Walter J. Orality and literacy : the technologizing of the word London : Routledge : 2002 : 204 s. : ISBN: 0-415-28129-6(pbk) Search the University Library catalogue
Ryan Marie-Laure Meaning as Spectacle. Verbal Art in the Digital Age Included in: Why study literature? Århus : Aarhus University Press : 2011 : 256 p. : pages 25-54 :
Ryan Marie-Laure Story/Worlds/Media. Tuning the Instrument of a Media-Conscious Narratology Included in: Storyworlds across media Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press : 2014 : 400 p. : pages 25-49 :
A Companion to Digital Literary Studies Siemens Ray, Schreibman Susan John Wiley & Sons : 2013 : 640 s. : ISBN: 9781118492277 Search the University Library catalogue
