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Campus | Haverford |
Semester | Spring 2018 |
Registration ID | GERMH321B001 |
Course Title | Topics Germ Lit: From the Gutenberg-Galaxy to Cyberspace |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | German |
Instructor | Schoenherr,Ulrich |
Times and Days | T 01:30pm-04:00pm
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Room Location | GST103 |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 1402 The emergence of new acoustic, visual, and electronic media since the late 19th-century has dramatically changed the status of writing, textuality, and literature. Focusing on modernist as well as contemporary texts, films, and radio plays the seminar will reconstruct the changing intermedial relationship between the book and its technologically advanced ‘other’ from the print-based medium to the latest digital ‘Hypertext’ novel. The challenges posed by photography, phonography, radio, film, and electronic media prompted writers to rethink and redefine their declining position vis-à-vis the new technologies which have successfully dethroned the book as the primary storage system of modern society. Excerpts from historical and contemporary theories of media (Benjamin, McLuhan, Baudrillard, Kittler, Adorno, Virillo et.al.) will provide the conceptual framework for the analysis of literary and filmic models.; Crosslisted: German, Comparative Literature; Enrollment Limit: 20 Humanities (HU) |
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