Literary Intermedialities and Digital Humanities
Objectives
Develop conceptual methodological tools that lead to the apprehension of sustained knowledge and global skills while studying English literature, culture, and Digital Humanities; Strengthen the understanding of theoretical approaches and research methods within English Studies, namely regarding interarts and intermediality; Critically relate cultural representations and artistic, political and socio-economic transformations in the British context; Identify research phases and the respective methods, objectives and results, and exercise methodological and critical practices, in a path towards autonomy; Develop the analysis of written, visual and intermediary sources and produce innovative syntheses based on critical thinking; Reflect on the ways in which digital methodologies have improved research and its applications in the Humanities
General characterization
Code
02107473
Credits
10.0
Responsible teacher
Carlos Francisco Mafra Ceia
Hours
Weekly - 3
Total - 280
Teaching language
English
Prerequisites
Available soon
Bibliography
- Bartscherer, Thomas e Roderick Coover. (2011). Switching Codes: Thinking Through Digital Technology in the Humanities and the Arts. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- De Groot, Jerome. (2010). The Historical Novel. Nova Iorque: Routledge.
- Leitch, Thomas M. (2017). The Oxford Handbook of Adaptatin Studies, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Levenberg, Lewis, T. Neilson e D. Rheams. (2018). Research Methods for the Digital Humanities. Londres, Palgrave Macmillan.
- Rosenstone, R. A e C. Parvulescu. (2016). A Companion to the Historical Film. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.
- Tabachnick, Stephen. (2017). Cambridge Companion to the Graphic Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Zepetnek, Steven Tötösy de (ed.). (2013). Intermediality and Cultural Assessment: Digital Flows in the Global Age, A Review of Digital Humanities and the Study of Intermediality in Comparative Cultural Studies. West Lafayette: Purdue Scholarly Publishing Services.
Teaching method
Theoretical-practical classes include some lecturing, as well as practical activities, joint discussion and reflection by the students. We privilege the practical application of theory, interaction and active participation of students individually, in pairs and in groups to create a space for theoretical reflection on British historical intermedial fiction, and its themes and strategies, facilitating learning through the theoretical exposition of the contents with comment and analysis, the flipped classroom technique, tutoring, critical discussion of texts (comparative approach), and Digital Humanities methodologies.
Evaluation method
Método de avaliação - assignments outside the classroom (post on the class blog, Wiki, geomapping, word clouds)(20%), final essay with presentation and colleagues' peerreview(60%), classroom assignments(20%)
Subject matter
Intermedial/textual dialogues between historical fictional representations: - How Digital Humanities influence the writing, reading and study of historical narratives; - The nature, functions and varieties of written, visual and intermedial historical fictions; - Frankenstein(s): the novel, the film and the graphic novel. - The (post)modernist historical novel and its intersemiotic translation for the screen: "Orlando" (1928), by Virginia Woolf, and "Orlando" (1992), dir. by Sally Potter; Written and visual historical sources, comics and graphic novels as historical intermedial testimonies: "Peterloo" (2019); - Stereotypes and the historical film: television historical period drama ("Dowton Abbey", 2010-2015) and historical drama web television ("The Crown", 2016-). - Video gaming as historical fiction: "Assassin’s Creed" (2007) and "Valiant Hearts: The Great War" (2014); - Historical (bio)fiction for children: Brontëmania in Children's Literature.
Programs
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