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HUL340: Selected Topics in Literature: Codex to Hypertext (2016) |
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Course Outline (Tentative) |
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IT IS STRONGLY RECOMENDED THAT STUDENTS WHO OPT FOR THIS COURSE SHOULD HAVE SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED AT LEAST ONE LITERATURE COURSE.
Course objective: The emergence of digital means of communication and representation is transforming the way human beings assimilate and engage with knowledge. In order to understand the radical transformations it is useful to look at the previous moment in human history where such radical shifts in consciousness were brought about by changes in the technologies of representation – that is the emergence of print. The course will look at the history of print, the concept of authorship, the book market and distribution networks, rise of intellectual property, censorship. It will also study various forms of digital representation of art, intellectual property in the digital domain, creative commons, issues of surveillance and privacy and rights. The course will pay special attention to the question – Is the book dying? |
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Readings:
Raymond Williams. 'Art', 'Capitalism', 'Class', 'Culture', 'Democracy' and 'Industry' in Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society. Oxford University Press, 1985. 40-42; 50-52; 60-69; 87-98 and 165-168. Raymond Williams. 'The technology and the society' in Television: Technology and Cultural Form. New York, Schocken Books, 1975. 9-31. Walter Benjamin: 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' Marshall McLuhan. The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man. Toronto. University of Toronto Press, 2011. (??? pages 11-18, 31-32, 137-41; Robert Darnton. 'What is the history of books?' Daedalus 111(3): 65-83. Walter J. Ong. 'The modern discovery of primary oral cultures' in Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. London and New York, Routledge, 1982. 16-30. Christopher De Hamel. 'Illuminators, Binders and Booksellers' in Scribes and Illuminators. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2013. 45-70. Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin. 'The 'Discovery' of Printing' and 'The Chinese Precedent' in The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450-1800. Calcutta, Seagull Books, 2006. 50-58 and 75-82. John Dryden. 'MacFlecknoe ' Arjun Ghosh. “Censorship through Copyright: From print to digital media” in Social Scientist vol. 41. nos. 1-2 January-February 2013 Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 'Kubla Khan' Anderson, Benedict. 'The Origins of National Consciousness' in Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. Verso, 1991. 37-46. Lawrence Lessig. 'Chapter Twelve: Harms'. Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. Penguin Press 2004. 183-212. Nicholas Carr. 'The Juggler's Brain' in The Shallows: How the internet is changing the way we think, read and remember. London, Atlantic Books, 2010. 115-120; 126-129. |
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