LMKB405 Intermediality

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2016
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Alice Jedličková, CSc. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Petr Bubeníček, Ph.D. (alternate examiner)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Zbyněk Fišer, Ph.D.
Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Eva Zachová
Supplier department: Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each even Monday 14:10–17:25 U27
Prerequisites (in Czech)
!TYP_STUDIA(D)
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The focus of the class is on literature, while the perspective of the observation results from the current state of culture referred to as visual or multimedial, within which literature has to cope with the status of one of numerous media. Questions concerning cultural communication stem from this situation, such as: whether fictional worlds of literature remain capable of drawing to themselves the attention of users of digital virtual reality; what is the mutual influence of individual media not only on the sphere of production but also on the processes of their reception (e.g. does literature retain its evocative power while facing the contest of multimediality?). Work of literature is conceived of as an intersection of these media/art interrelations. The codifying texts of intermediality theory (by Elleström, Rajewski, Wolf) provide the methodologic basis, supported alternatively by the knowledge of semiotics, narratology, visual and film studies. The material for analyses is subject to selection according to the manifestation of individual types of intermediality, and their effects in the process of reception; eventually, the intermedia approach will be employed as the crucial tool of interpretation. Thus, attention will be paid to various kinds of intermedia references, transmedia representation of traditional topics, but also to a „technical poetics“ of intermediality (e.g. media specific and transmediated schemes of landscape representation); also the historical poetics of style in individual arts will touched upon (such as impressionism in fine arts and literature).
Skills acquired in the class:
students will develop the skill of interdisciplinary communication, i. e. the capability to define problems of inquiry into cultural representations in a way, which would make them accessible and illuminating also for representatives of other disciplines together with the ability of employing tools for analysis of a work of art not only within of the art concerned, but also in the complex “media discourse”.
Syllabus
  • The selection of the texts and works to be analyzed is (due to the short run of the course) subject to explicit manifestation of individual aspects of intermediality, thus, aspects of diachronic or culture representation can not be taken into consideration. Individual discussions will involve both analyses of fragments of works and complex interpretation.
Literature
  • Jedličková, Alice: 2011 Intermediální poetika příběhu: úvodem, in Intermediální poetika příběhu (Praha: Akropolis – Ústav pro českou literaturu), s. 5-25
  • Jedličková, Alice„Jak Perseus osvobodil Andromedu, nebo osvobození Andromedy? K transmedialitě vyprávění ve slovesném a výtvarném umění“, in L. Krausová, J, Schneider (eds.): Vybrané kapitoly z intermediality (Olomouc: Univ. Palackého, 2008), s.67-100
  • Andrews, Malcom - Landscape and Western Art, Oxford, Oxford University Press 1999
  • Grishakova Marina, Ryan Marie-Laure: Intermediality and Storytelling (Berlin et al: de Gruyter)
  • Jedličková A., 2010 Intermediální poetika krajiny, in Česká literatura v intermediální perspektivě (Praha: Akropolis – Ústav pro českou literaturu), s. 297-306
  • USPENSKIJ, Boris Andrejevič. Poetika kompozice. Translated by Bruno Solařík. Vydání první. Brno: Host, 2008, 280 stran. ISBN 9788072942688. info
  • CHATMAN, Seymour. Příběh a diskurs : narativní struktura v literatuře a filmu. Translated by Milan Orálek. Vyd. 1. Brno: Host, 2008, 328 s. ISBN 9788072942602. info
  • Routledge encyclopedia of narrative theory. Edited by David Herman - Manfred Jahn - Marie-Laure Ryan. 1st pub. in pbk. London: Routledge, 2008, xxix, 718. ISBN 9780203932896. info
  • GOODMAN, Nelson. Jazyky umění : nástin teorie symbolů. Edited by Tomáš Kulka. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 2007, 213 s. ISBN 9788020015198. info
  • GOMBRICH, E. H. Umění a iluze : studie o psychologii obrazového znázorňování. Translated by Miroslava Gregorová. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon, 1985, 534 s. info
Teaching methods
Classwork methods generally: semiotic analysis of a work of art and its cultural and historical contextualization, in particular: stylistic and poetologic analysis of literary text, narratological analysis of an audiovisual product (such as film or TV series), iconological analysis of a work of visual art, all involving cognitive aspects of reception; analytic approach will be employed during the class discussion, its necessary precondition being previous reception of the works of art intended to be analyzed ( i.e. reading texts, watching films etc.), in some cases, acquiring theoretical knowledge in advance will be necessary.
Assessment methods
active participation in class discussions, alternatively students´ own analysis either presented in the class discussion or written after the run of the course.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
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