LMKB_a444 Literature and New Media

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Petr Vokřínek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Petr Vokřínek, Ph.D.
Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Veronika Bromová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites (in Czech)
TYP_STUDIA(ND)
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
One of the aims of the seminar is to introduce the specific character of new media art objects and to reflect on their significance in the context of all contemporary art production. In addition to the synchronic aspect, the diachronic aspect will also be important, through the prism of which the basic developmental tendencies will be viewed, which incorporate the phenomenon of new media not only into the wide spectrum of historical media manifestations, but also into the position of the developmental culmination of the use of the principle of intermediality. The course should demonstrate that new media art is not an artistic field detached from earlier works, but on the contrary, thanks to the process of remediation, it can connect, integrate and at the same time transform and enrich all artistic expressions of the past in an original way. At the same time, the relativity of the view of new media will also be emphasized, where the absolute "democratization" of creation and reception can be perceived largely differently from a different point of view. The main theme of the seminar will focus on the areas in which new media demonstrate literary production in its various manifestations. Using relevant examples, it will be suggested that literary works, whether they originate in traditional printed form or are already produced in an electronic environment, take on new qualities as they enter the globalized digital environment, modifying traditional literary discourse in their own way. Attention will therefore be paid to the most diverse manifestations of literary production in new media, whether it is the activity of literary servers, internet blogs and microblogs, social networking activities, digital poetry or hypertext prose, the intersection of literature in digital filmmaking or VR games, or conceptual work.
Learning outcomes
Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to:
- capture the essential features of new media artistic production;
- reflect on the developmental implications within diverse media expressions;
- characterize the shifts related to the modification of literary discourse within new media;
- compare the specific features of artistic expressions produced in different media domains, with particular reference to new media;
- to understand the importance of intertextuality and intermediality for literature contained in new media.
Syllabus
  • What is new media. Principles of new media.
  • The language of cultural interfaces. The issue of "freedom" in the field of new media.
  • New media tendency to evoke the illusion of reality and its methods.
  • Internet literary servers and their specifics.
  • Specialized internet blogs, specifics of serial publishing.
  • Literary works created in the field of social networks.
  • The wide variation of digital poetry.
  • Hypertext prose, its pros and cons.
  • Creation inspired by modern means of communication (SMS, e-mail).
  • Conceptual literature.
  • The "unlimited" space of VR games and its limitations.
Literature
    required literature
  • MANOVICH, Lev. Jazyk nových médií. Translated by Václav Janoščík. První české vydání. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, nakladatelství Karolinum, 2018, 378 stran. ISBN 9788024629612. info
  • PIORECKÝ, Karel. Česká literatura a nová média. Vydání první. Praha: Academia, 2016, 296 stran. ISBN 9788020025784. info
    recommended literature
  • ČERVENKA, Miroslav, 2009b. Textologie a sémiotika. In: ČERVENKA, Miroslav. Textologické studie. Vyd. 1. Praha: Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR, 2009, s. 201-208.
  • RAJEWSKY, Irina O., 2002, Intermedialität. Tübingen/Basel: Francke, též heslo in Průvodce po světové literární teorii 20. století. Brno: Host, 2012
  • RAJEWSKY, Irina O., 2005 „Intermediality, Intertextuality, and Remediation: A Literary Perspective on Intermediality“, Intermédialités, 6, 2005, s. 43–64
  • JEDLIČKOVÁ, Alice, 2011, „Intermediální poetika příběhu: úvodem“, in Intermediální poetika příběhu. Praha: Akropolis – Ústav pro českou literaturu, s. 5-25
  • Průvodce po světové literární teorii 20. století. Edited by Vladimír Macura - Alice Jedličková. Vydání první. Brno: Host, 2012, 839 stran. ISBN 9788072948482. info
  • MCLUHAN, Marshall. Jak rozumět médiím : extenze člověka. Edited by Jan Jirák, Translated by Miloš Calda. 2., rev. vyd. Praha: Mladá fronta, 2011, 399 s. ISBN 9788020424099. info
  • Kulturální teorie : klasické a současné přístupy. Edited by Tim Edwards, Translated by David Vichnar. Vydání první. Praha: Portál, 2010, 364 stran. ISBN 9788073676858. info
  • BOLTER, Jay David. Writing space : computers, hypertext, and the remediation of print. 2nd ed. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 2001, xiv, 232. ISBN 0805829199. info
  • MCLUHAN, Marshall. Člověk, média a elektronická kultura : výbor z díla. Translated by Irena Přibylová - Martin Krejza. Vyd. 1. Brno: Jota, 2000, 415 s. ISBN 8072171283. info
  • BOLTER, Jay David and Richard A. GRUSIN. Remediation : understanding new media. 1st MIT Press pbk. ed. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000, xi, 295. ISBN 0262522799. info
Teaching methods
Discussions on given topics, papers.
Assessment methods
Active participation in the discussion, presentation of a paper on a selected topic and its written elaboration.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 0.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2024.
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