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Lecturer(s)
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van den Berg Hubert François, prof.
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Course content
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An overview of how digitization has changed the appearance and functioning of literary life in the Netherlands and Flanders in recent decades. Use of computer and electronic / digital media in literary production, dissemination and reception; an overview of the emergence, development and functioning of new types and genres of literary communication, which are the result of digitization, as well as the emergence of analogue literature; an analytical instrument for the scientific description and analysis of digital literature with a view to using forms of analysis and conceptual frameworks developed for analog literature (narratology, analysis of poetry) and a new description of forms and analytical tools that are adapted to digital literature; an overview of new approaches to digital literature, both in the scientific literature description and in the analysis of (original) digital literature and current literature in digitized practice and in digitized analogue literature. Course schedule: Week 1) General introduction; Week 2) Technology and text, new media and literature; Week 3) Digital literary production and distribution; Week 4) Digital presence of analogue authors and publishers; Week 5) Digital Readers and Digital Criticism; Week 6) blogs, social media as literary forums; Week 7) Computational poetry and poetic machines; Week 8) New genres in poetry; Week 9) Moving and speaking poetry; Week 10) Hyperfiction; Week 11) Interactive narrative prose; Week 12) Trans-media narrativity; Week 13) Recapitulation. Note: For operational reasons, the course is taught in 6 larger blocks.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
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Learning outcomes
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The course is dedicated to the influence of computer, digital media and new forms of communication in Dutch literary practice in the recent decades. Other topics are literary description and analysis - in digital or traditional form.
Knowledge of current trends in the most modern Dutch literature.
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Prerequisites
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Interest in modern literature.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Student performance, Analysis of Creative works (Music, Pictorial,Literary)
Active participation in lessons. Read and analyze 5 works of the discussed periods. Homework and preparation of papers.
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Recommended literature
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Battus [Hugo Brandt Corstius]. (1981). Opperlandse taal- & letterkunde.. Amsterdam.
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D. Herman, M. Jahn & M. L. Ryan. (2005). Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory. London.
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E. van Boven & G. Dorleijn. (2013). Literair mechaniek. Inleiding tot de analyse van verhalen en gedichten. Bussum.
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F. Moretti. (2013). Distant Reading. London.
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J. Baetens et al. (2015). Dossier Elektronische Literatuur. Parmentier 15 (1), s. 7-136..
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J. Schäfer & P Gendolla. (2015). Beyond the Screen. Transformations of Literary Structures, Interfaces and Genres. Bielefeld.
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M. Engberg, T. Memmott & D. Prater. Anthology of European Electronic Literature.
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M. Kinder & T. McPherson. (2014). Transmedia Frictions. The Digital, the Arts, and the Humanities. Oakland.
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P. Gendolla, J. Schäfer & R. Simanowski. (2010). Reading Moving Letters. Digital Literature in Research and Teaching. A Handbook. Bielefeld.
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S. Baldwin. (2015). The Internet Unconscious. On the Subject of Electronic Literature. New York.
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