GER 494/598|ENG 494/549|HUM 494| FLA 494/598
Spring 2003, Daniel Gilfillan
This course will introduce graduate students and advanced
undergraduates to some of the issues surrounding the impact
of digital technology on cultural production. Specifically,
we will explore various ideas of subjectivity as they
relate to reconfigured notions of authorship and readership.
How might the author/reader interaction change in the
digital environment? We will also investigate the nature
of hypertext and its development from within critical
theoretical discourse, and experience for ourselves some
new modes of interaction in these online environments.
Students will have the opportunity, as well, to begin
creating electronic publications stemming from their own
research and to collaborate in exciting new ways.
The course will range widely from materials marking
the transition from print to bits (print texts that
anticipate hypertextual structures, and digital texts
that mimic print's constraints) to digital hypertext
fiction, and online scholarly research projects. We
will be reading theoretical texts that provide a foundation
for discussing issues of subjectivity, identity, authorship/ownership,
multi-linear and multi-layered narrative forms. We will
also analyze scholarly digital projects related to texts
of great cultural value (Decameron Web, Encylopédie,
Projekt Gutenberg) and will explore print authors
from four national literatures: Italo Calvino, Jorge
Luis Borges, Alain Robbe-Grillet and Christoph Ransmayr.
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Instructor:
Daniel Gilfillan
Office/Office Hours:
LL 410D
T/Th: 1:00-2:30 & by appointment
Location/Time:
BA 358
T/Th: 3:15-4:30
Required Texts:
Barthes: Image,
Music, Text
Bolter/Grusin: Remediation
Borges: Ficciones
Calvino: If
on a winter's night a traveler
Jackson:
Patchwork Girl
Ong: Orality
and Literacy
Ransmayr: The
Last World
Robbe-Grillet: Djinn
Course Packet:
Available for purchase at Uni-Print,
710 S. Forest Ave. 480-968-0799
Assignments:
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Class Discussions, Participation & Minutes
- 20%
Two Short Reviews - 20%
Web Storyboard - 10%
Midterm Exam - 20%
Seminar Project - 30%
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