Hyperfiction and Culture
Code
722011055
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Ciências da Comunicação
Credits
10
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) Identification of a new form of textuality that emerged with the advent of hypertext: hyperfiction;
b) Discussion of the preceding theoretical and cultural approaches of to this new discourse practice;
c) Analysis of both the performance and the methods employed in this field of cyberliterature.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
1. Introduction to cyberliterature
2. Progress: from text to hypertext
3. Reconfigurations
4. The literary hypertext
5. The habitat of hyperfiction
6. The role of the author
7. Computer assisted writing
8. Case study
Bibliography
- Jay David Bolter (1991), Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing, Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
- Espen J. Aarseth (2005), preface to Cibertexto. Perspectivas sobre a literatura ergódica, tradução portuguesa de Maria Leonor Telles e J. A. Mourão, Lisboa: Pedra da Roseta
- Loss Glazier Pequeño (2002), Digital Poetics. The Making of E-Poetries, Tuscaloosa and London: The University of Alabama Press
- George Landow (2006), Hypertext 3.0. Critical Theory and new media in an Era of Globalization, The Johns Hopkins University Press
- Mark Bernstein (2002), Padrões do Hipertexto, in INTERLAB, Labirintos do pensamento contemporâneo, FAPESP, Iluminuras, org. Lúcia Leão
Teaching method
Readings, comparing hyperfictional practices online. Critical discussion of projects.
Theoretical component 50%, practical component 50%.
Evaluation method