Information technologies and production of literature
Code 135QQ
Credits 6
Learning outcomes
Educational Goals
Develop interdisciplinary competence (computer science and humanities) needed to seize the opportunities offered by new technologies (data
base, digitization of information, Web, hypertexts) in the processes of literary writing, reading, interpretation and literary criticism, and treatment of texts.
Stimulate attitudes oriented to the mixture of different technologies, and appreciation of the specific advantages of each technology.
Description
Technologies as forms of literature. The book as technological construction and its competitors. Typewriters and reading machines. Narrative as game: novel and computer games. Novels allocated on data bases. The web as a narrative. Sequence VS. Hypertext. Writing in the absence of support. Collaborative writing. Multimedial writing. The novel as a textual galaxy without form. Towards a new literature, or the possible future of the novel.
Develop interdisciplinary competence (computer science and humanities) needed to seize the opportunities offered by new technologies (data
base, digitization of information, Web, hypertexts) in the processes of literary writing, reading, interpretation and literary criticism, and treatment of texts.
Stimulate attitudes oriented to the mixture of different technologies, and appreciation of the specific advantages of each technology.
Description
Technologies as forms of literature. The book as technological construction and its competitors. Typewriters and reading machines. Narrative as game: novel and computer games. Novels allocated on data bases. The web as a narrative. Sequence VS. Hypertext. Writing in the absence of support. Collaborative writing. Multimedial writing. The novel as a textual galaxy without form. Towards a new literature, or the possible future of the novel.