Reading and Narrating in Digital and New Media, 7.5 credits
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. However, such changes have always occured; the way we tell stories are connected to the media platforms we use. During this course we examine the connection between storytelling, reading and media, also in a historical perspective: how does diffrent types of media affect diffrent forms of storytelling, and vice versa? The course contains in-depths studies of storytelling in social media, in storyworlds and in diffent types of adaptations.
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: 2020 week 36
Print Is Flat, Code Is Deep: The Importance of Media-Specific Analysis
Hayles, N. Katherine
Poetics Today 25.1 :
2004 :
A theory of adaptation
Hutcheon Linda, O'Flynn Siobhan
2nd ed. :
London :
Routledge :
2013 :
xxx, 273 s. :
ISBN: 9780415539371
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Narratology: A Guide to the Theory of Narrative
Jahn Manfred
English Department, University of Cologne, 2017 :
2017 :
http://www.uni-koeln.de/~ame02/pppn.pdf
Convergence culture
: where old and new media collide
Jenkins Henry
New York :
New York University Press :
2006 :
xi, 308 p. :
ISBN: 978-0-8147-4281-5
Mandatory
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Transmedial Narration and Fan Fiction. The Storyworld of the Vampire Diaries
Lindgren Leavenwort Maria
Included in:
Storyworlds across media
Lincoln, Neb. :
University of Nebraska Press :
2014 :
400 p. :
315-331 pages
Mandatory
Literary Studies in the Digital Age. An Evolving Anthology.
Modern Language Association :
Mandatory
Counting Media: Some Rules of Thumb
Mitchell W.J.T
University of Chicago, USA :
2017 :
http://journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/article/view/13/9
Narratology beyond literary criticism
: mediality, disciplinarity
Kindt Tom., Schernus Wilhelm., Meister Jan Christoph
Berlin :
Walter de Gruyter :
c2005. :
296 s. :
ISBN: 3-11-018352-8
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Orality and literacy
: the technologizing of the word
Ong Walter J.
London :
Routledge :
2002 :
204 s. :
ISBN: 0-415-28129-6(pbk)
Mandatory
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The marvelous clouds
: toward a philosophy of elemental media
Peters John Durham
Chicago :
the University of Chicago Press :
2015 :
410 pages :
ISBN: 978-0-226-25383-1
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Meaning as Spectacle. Verbal Art in the Digital Age
Ryan Marie-Laure
Included in:
Why study literature?
Århus :
Aarhus University Press :
2011 :
256 p. :
25-54 pages
Mandatory
Story/Worlds/Media. Tuning the Instrument of a Media-Conscious Narratology
Ryan Marie-Laure
Included in:
Storyworlds across media
Lincoln, Neb. :
University of Nebraska Press :
2014 :
400 p. :
25-49 pages
Mandatory
The art of adaptation
Sarai MV
The Artifice :
2018 :
https://the-artifice.com/art-of-adaption/
What is fanfiction and why are people saying such nice things about it?
Bronwen Thomas
University of Nebraska Press :
2011 :
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/432689