Intertextuality and Intermediality

6 ECTS credits
180 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 4021410ENR for all students in the 1st semester at a (E) Master - advanced level.

Semester

1st semester

Enrollment based on exam contract

Impossible

Grading method

Grading (scale from 0 to 20)

Can retake in second session

Yes

Taught in

English

Faculty

Faculty of Languages & Humanities

Department

Linguistics and Literary Studies

Educational team

Ann Peeters (course titular)
Mathias Meert

Activities and contact hours

13 contact hours Lecture
15 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
110 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study

Course Content

This course introduces research on the presence of intertextual and intermedial connections in literature and other art forms, paying special attention to the concept of "meaning" as a result of this interaction.

A general overview of the most relevant theoretical concepts and currents in the field of intertextuality and intermediality, the course will focus on the analysis of a case study. More specifically, the dynamics of intertextual and intermedial links will be analysed in Dante Alighieri's "La Divina Commedia", Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" (intertextuality) and Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now" (intermediality).

Course material

Handbook (Recommended) : Intertextuality, Graham ALLEN, 2de, New York, Routledge, 9780415596947, 2011
Handbook (Recommended) : Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree, Literature in the Second Degree, Gerard GENETTE, University of Nebraska Press, 9780803270299, 1997
Digital course material (Recommended) : Discourse and Text: Linguistic and Intertextual Analysis within Discourse Analysis, Norman FAIRCLOUGH, in Discourse and Analysis, 3.2 (1992): 193-217
Digital course material (Required) : Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford COPPOLA, 1979
Handbook (Required) : Heart of Darkness, Jospeh CONRAD, London, Penguin Books, 9780241956809, 2012
Handbook (Required) : The Divine Comedy (translation by Robin Kirkpatrick), Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso, Dante ALIGHIERI, London, Penguin Books, 9780141197494, 2012
Handbook (Recommended) : Handbook of Intermediality, Gabriele RIPPL, Berlin, De Gruyter, 9783110308365, 2015
Handbook (Recommended) : A Theory of Adaptation, Linda HUTCHEON, 2de, New York, Routledge, 9780415539388, 2012
Digital course material (Recommended) : Literary Borrowing... and Stealing: Plagiarism, Sources, Infliences and Intertexts, Linda HUTCHEON, in English Studies in Canada, 12.2 (1986): 229-239

Additional info

Not applicable.

Learning Outcomes

General competencies

Learning outcomes:

- the student knows the main concepts and theories in intertextuality
- the student knows the main concepts and theories in intermediality
- the student is able to analyse a literary work taking these concepts and theories as a starting point
- the student is able autonomously to explain the results of his/her research during a group presentation

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 50% of the final mark.
SELF Presentation determines 50% of the final mark.

Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Mondeling examen with a relative weight of 5 which comprises 50% of the final mark.

Within the SELF Presentation category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Presentatie with a relative weight of 5 which comprises 50% of the final mark.

Additional info regarding evaluation

The exam consists of an oral presentation which presents the results of an intertextual and/or intermedial analysis and an oral exam, during which additional questions regarding the conclusions of the group presentation and the theoretical framework will be asked.

Students must participate in all parts of the evaluation process in order to pass the course.

Students can transfer to the next exam session the results of those parts of the evaluation process for which they have obtained a pass mark.

Allowed unsatisfactory mark

The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context