IMK098 Digital Fiction

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2012
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: graded credit.
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Zuzana Panák Husárová, Ph.D. (lecturer), doc. Mgr. Jana Horáková, Ph.D. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Jana Horáková, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Bc. Jitka Leflíková
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Fri 24. 2. 12:30–13:15 N41, Fri 23. 3. 12:30–13:15 N41, Fri 20. 4. 12:30–13:15 N41, Fri 18. 5. 12:30–13:15 N41
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
Course objectives
The course studies the aspects of the digital fiction, that single out this means of interactive art from the new media art scale. At the end of the course the students will be familiar with the terminological apparatus of digital fiction theory and will manage to define its conceptual instruments (hyperfiction, ergodic literature, fictionality, narrativity, multilinearity, materiality of the digital medium, performativity of the digital sign, etc.). The students will be able to characterize the specifics of the works of digital fiction. The students will have the knowledge to explain the formation of digital fiction field, due to their awareness of the particular experimental tendencies in literary history (protohypertexts, ergodic literature, Oulipo, visual poetry, kinetic poetry) and the tendencies in digital art (interactivity, intermediality, processing, playfulness). The students will be led to formulate their opinions on the phenomena related to digital fiction research. The students will be able to analyse the components of digital narrative, and thus also interpret the pieces. The participation on this course will provide the students with the tools relevant to compose strategies on digital fiction reading and understanding as well as makes them evaluate the qualities of these artworks.
Syllabus
  • Digital Fiction. Theory of fictional worlds. Narratology.
  • Multilinear writing. Oulipo.
  • Narrative as transmedial phenomenon. Digital fiction and aspects of play, game.
  • Analysis of digital fiction.
Literature
  •  Oulipo Compendium. Ed. Harry Mathews, Alastair Brotchie. London : Atlas Press, 2005. ISBN 1-900565-18-8. Oulipo : A Primer of Potential Literature. Ed. Warren Motte. Chicago : Dilkey Archive Press, 2008. ISBN 978-1564781871.
  •  Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory. Ed. David Herman, Manfred Jahn, Marie-Laure Ryan. London; New York : Routledge. 2008, p. 252-256. ISBN 978-0-415-77512-0.
  •  New Media Reader. Ed. Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Nick Montfort. Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, 2003, p. 393-404. ISBN 0-262-23227-8.
  •  GENETTE, Gérard. Narrative Discourse : An Essay in Method. Trans. Jane E. Lewin. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 1980. 285 p. ISBN 0-8014-1099-1.
  •  A Companion to Digital Literary Studies [online]. Ed. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens. Oxford : Blackwell, 2008. Available at: .
  • GADAMER, Hans-Georg. Aktualita krásneho. Umenie ako hra, symbol a slávnosť. Prel. Oliver  Bakoš. Bratislava : Archa, 1995. 100 s. ISBN 80-7115-078-09.
  •  GUNDER, Anna. Forming the Text, Performing the Work - Aspects of Media, Navigation, and Linking [online]. February-March 2001 [cit. 2008-10-07]. Available at:.
  •  CAYLEY, John. Time Code Language : New Media Poetics and Programmed Signification. In New Media Poetics : Contexts, Technotexts, and Theories. Ed. Adalaide Morris, Thomas Swiss. Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, 2006, p. 307-333. ISBN 0-262-13463-2.
  •  BOOTZ, Phillipe. Digital Poetry : From Cyberspace to Programmed Forms. In Leonardo Electronic Almanach [online]. Vol. 14, 2006, no. 5-6. 2006-09-25 [cit. 2009-01-13]. Available at: . ISSN
  •  GLAZIER, Loss Pequeño. Digital Poetics : The Making of E-Poetries. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2002. 213 p. ISBN 0-8173-1075-4.
  •  RYAN, Marie-Laure. Narrative as Virtual Reality : Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. 399 p. ISBN 0-8018-7753-9.
  •  New Media Poetics : Contexts, Technotexts, and Theories. Edited by Adalaide Morris, Thomas Swiss. Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, 2006, ISBN 0-262-13463-2.
  •  BOLTER, Jay, David – GROMALA, Diane. Windows and Mirrors : Interaction Design, Digital Art, and the Myth of Transparency. Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, 2003. 182 p. ISBN 0-262-02545-0.
  •  FOŘT, Bohumil. Úvod do sémantiky fikčních světu. Brno : Host, 2005. p.148. ISBN 80-7294-165-8.
Teaching methods
lecture, seminar, class discussion, reading, participation on a collaborative online blog
Assessment methods
Assessments:
1. comments on texts
2. a theoretical paper on the problem in DF (cca. 7 pages)
3. comparison of 2 digital literary works (cca. 5 pages)
4. participation on the collaborative project
Language of instruction
Slovak
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015.
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