Postgraduate Course: Theories of Intermediality 1 (CLLC11192)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course will provide a detailed survey of the history and theory of "intermediality", i.e. the interrelationships between different art forms and their signification. It will explore this buoyant and rapidly emerging area of studies from its origins, via theories of medium specificity to modern and contemporary theoretical approaches, putting special emphasis on intermedial figurations such as word and image, music and painting, or screen adaptation. The course will offer students not only an in-depth engagement with the theory but also the methods and specific discourses of a range of intermedial configurations, thus equipping them with the critical tools and historical background for understanding, contextualising and analysing such phenomena. |
| Course description |
During the two opening weeks, the course will begin by questioning what we understand by the term "Intermediality", looking at ways of defining, problematizing and theorizing the field and its object of study. Each seminar will then concentrate on the interactions between specific media and art forms such as painting, photography, film, music and literature, across different periods and cultures, with an emphasis on the modern and contemporary period. The discussion will often be based on one or two reasonably short theoretical texts on the topic in question, followed by an analysis of specific intermedial combinations in the light of the issues discussed. All materials taught on this course will be available in English.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- 1. Reflect critically on a variety of concepts of Intermediality and their development over time and to develop an independent view of the subject.
- 2. Assess a range of specific intermedial phenomena and their usefulness for the student's own research interests.
- 3. Read a variety of theoretical texts critically and to evaluate their argument.
- 4. Work autonomously both as part of a group and on their own.
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Reading List
Essential
BARTHES, Roland, 'Rhetoric of the Image' (1963), in Image, Music, Text, trans. Stephen Heath (Fontana Press, 1977), pp. 32-51
BAZIN, André, 'In Defence of Mixed Cinema', in What is Cinema?, trans. Hugh Gray (University of California Press, 2005), vol. 1, pp. 53-75
GREENBERG, Clement, 'Towards a Newer Laocoon', Partisan Review, vol. 7, n°4 (1940)
GREIMAS, Algirdas Julien, 'Figurative Semiotics and the Semiotics of the Plastic Arts', New Literary History, vol. 20, n°3 (1984), pp. 627-49
KARASTATHI, Sylvia, 'Ekphrasis and the Novel/Narrative Fiction', in Gabriele Rippl (ed.), Handbook of Intermediality: Literature-Image-Sound-Music (De Gruyter, 2015), pp. 92-112
PASOLINI, Pier Paolo, 'The Screenplay as a "Structure that Wants to be Another Structure"' (1965), in Heretical Empiricism, trans. Ben Lawton and Louise K. Barnett (Indiana UP, 1988), pp. 187-96
Recommended
ALBRIGHT, Daniel, Panaesthetics: on the Unity and Diversity of the Arts (Yale UP, 2014)
BRUNET, François, Photography and Literature (Reaktion, 2009)
DELEUZE, Gilles, Cinema 1: The Movement Image (1983), trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam (The Athlone Press, 1989)
HUTCHEON, Linda, A Theory of Adaptation (Routledge, 2006)
LESSING, Gotthold, Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry (HardPress, 2018)
RANCIÈRE, Jacques, The Future of the Image (Verso, 2009)
STAM, Robert, and Alessandra RAENGO (eds), Literature and Film: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Adaptation (Blackwell, 2005)
VERGO, Peter, The Music of Painting: Music, Modernism, and the Visual Arts from the Romantics to John Cage (Phaidon Press, 2010)
Further Reading
RANCIÈRE, Jacques, The Emancipated Spectator (Verso, 2011)
STOICHITA, Victor, The Pygmalion Effect: From Ovid to Hitchcock (Chicago UP, 2006)
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
- creative problem solving and research
- critical and reflective thought
- effective and influential communication
- curiosity for learning that makes a positive difference
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| Keywords | Intermediality,image-text,literature,film,photography,painting,music |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Marion Schmid
Tel: (0131 6)50 8409
Email: Marion.Schmid@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Monique Brough
Tel: (0131 6)50 3618
Email: Monique.Brough@ed.ac.uk |
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