E-textualities
Code
711011061
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Ciências da Comunicação
Credits
6
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a. Identify the contemporary reconfigurations of textuality, namely the reconfiguration of the
narrative in an electronic environment.
b. Reflect on the effects of the deconstruction of the literary genre.
c. Analyse the most common practices of e-textualities, such as the blog.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
1. From text to hypertext.
2. Modes and genres.
3. Elements of hypertextual poetics.
4. e-writings: The constitution of a field.
5. Blogs
6. The model of the connected text (Ph. Bootz)
7. The future of the narrative.
Bibliography
Bolter, Jay (1991) Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing, Hillsdale, N.J., Lawrence Erlbaum.
Kalaga, Wojciech (1997) Nebulae of Discourse, Literary and Cultural Theory, vol. 1, Peter Lang.
Olson, R. David (1994) The World on Paper. The Conceptual and Cognitive Implications of Writing and Reading, Cambridge University Press.
Levin, Thomas Y. (2002) Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother, MIT Press.
Bouchardon, Serge (2003) «E-critures: co-constitution dun champ, dun dispositif et dune communauté», Esprit critique, vol. 5, n.º 4.
Teaching method
The teaching methodology is based in the principle of information exchange, as much in the
strictly bibliographical level as in the exploration of online hyperfictional practices (60%
theoretical classes; 40% practical classes)
Evaluation method
A written individual test, on the generality of the syllabus: 25%.
A short essay analysing a hypertextual object, e.g., a blog: 25%.
A longer essay with a comprehensive analysis of one of the themes in the syllabus: 50%.