IM098a Digital Fiction Seminar

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2010
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: graded credit.
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Zuzana Panák Husárová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Jana Horáková, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. Mgr. Jana Horáková, Ph.D.
Timetable
Tue 11:40–13:15 B11
Prerequisites
NOW( IM098 Digital Fiction )
Zapsat předmět: IM098 Digital Fiction
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 150 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/150, only registered: 0/150, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/150
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The course is considered as a practical follower of the lecture Digital Fiction. At the end of the course the students will be able to define the main tendencies in digital writing (multilinear, fragmentary, noncoherent, performative) and understand the poetics of digital fiction. The students will be familiar with the terminology of narratology and digital art. The students will be able to grasp and evaluate the application of various transdisciplinary concepts relating also to the digital art (narrative, story, mediality, experience, etc.). The students will have the skill to understand and analyse various digital fiction pieces – in oral and written form. They will be trained to present concrete artworks and formulate the structural and poetical issues. The students will be able to stand in the position of discussion leaders, and thus manage to develop their critical thinking on the subject as well as their presentation skills.
Syllabus
  • Analysis and interpreration of digital fictions chosen by lecturer and also by students as their presentation. Discussions on the interface as well as on the topics and themes arising from the fictional pieces.
Literature
  • ° KIRSCHENBAUM, Matthew, G. Mechanisms : New Media and Forensic Textuality. Cambridge,
  • ° MONTFORT, Nick. Interfacing with Computer Narratives : Literary Possibilities for Interactive Fiction [online]. 1995-05-10 [cit. 2008-12-19]. Available at: .
  • ° MANGEN, Anne. New narrative pleasures? A cognitive-phenomenological study of the experience
  • ° DOUGLAS, Jane Yellowlees. The End of Books – Or Books without End? : Reading interactive
  • ° ENGBERG, Maria. Aesthetics of Noise in Digital Literary Arts. In Electronic Literature in Europe
  • ° WARDRIP-FRUIN, Noah. Expressive Processing. Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, 2009. 480 p. ISBN 0-262-01343-6.
  • ° Digital Media Revisited : Theoretical and Conceptual Innovation in Digital Domains. Ed. Gunnar Liestol, Andrew Morrison, Terje Rasmussen. Cambridge,MA : The MIT Press, 2003, p. 157-182. ISBN 0-262-12256-1.
  • ° Digital Material. Ed. Van den Boomen, Marianne et al. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-90-8964-068-0.
  • ° RYAN, Marie-Laure. Narrative as Virtual Reality : Immersion and Interactivity in Literature
Teaching methods
Seminar
Assessment methods
The assessment will be considered on the basis of two parts – the presentation of one digital fiction and the paper on its analysis. Requirements during seminar - presentation of the digital fiction of student´s choice, its analysis and leading the group discussion on this particular fiction. Written analysis of some digital fiction. The assessment will also take into account student´s activity at seminars.
Language of instruction
Slovak
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2015.
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