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090113 UE Photography in literary and philosophical texts: Representing memory (2021S)
Continuous assessment of course work
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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from We 03.02.2021 06:00 to We 24.02.2021 23:59
- Registration is open from Mo 22.03.2021 06:00 to Th 25.03.2021 14:00
- Deregistration possible until We 31.03.2021 23:59
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Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
- Tuesday 09.03. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum AB3.24.2 Augasse 2-6, 3.OG Kern A, Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik
- Tuesday 16.03. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum AB3.24.2 Augasse 2-6, 3.OG Kern A, Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik
- Tuesday 23.03. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum AB3.24.2 Augasse 2-6, 3.OG Kern A, Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik
- Tuesday 13.04. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum AB3.24.2 Augasse 2-6, 3.OG Kern A, Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik
- Tuesday 20.04. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum AB3.24.2 Augasse 2-6, 3.OG Kern A, Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik
- Tuesday 27.04. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum AB3.24.2 Augasse 2-6, 3.OG Kern A, Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik
- Tuesday 04.05. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum AB3.24.2 Augasse 2-6, 3.OG Kern A, Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik
- Tuesday 11.05. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum AB3.24.2 Augasse 2-6, 3.OG Kern A, Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik
- Tuesday 18.05. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum AB3.24.2 Augasse 2-6, 3.OG Kern A, Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik
- Tuesday 01.06. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum AB3.24.2 Augasse 2-6, 3.OG Kern A, Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik
- Tuesday 08.06. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum AB3.24.2 Augasse 2-6, 3.OG Kern A, Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik
- Tuesday 15.06. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum AB3.24.2 Augasse 2-6, 3.OG Kern A, Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik
- Tuesday 22.06. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum AB3.24.2 Augasse 2-6, 3.OG Kern A, Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik
- Tuesday 29.06. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum AB3.24.2 Augasse 2-6, 3.OG Kern A, Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik
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Aims, contents and method of the course
This course focuses on the figure of photography and photography-related language and tropes that we find in literary texts since the nineteenth century. We will study a rich theoretical and philosophical corpus in various ways related to photography (Walter Benjamin, Henri Bergson, Siegfried Kracauer, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida), and move on to consider the implications of the new technology for literature’s understanding of its own modes of representation. We will work with texts by Charles Baudelaire, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and the Greek poets Constantine Cavafy, Georges Seferis, Andreas Embeirikos, Yiannis Ritsos (presenting in parallel, where applicable, their own photographic collections and their relation to the political and cultural constitution of Greece). Major topics that are addressed at the intersection of literary and photographic language include memory and forgetting, perception and knowledge, death and afterlife.
Assessment and permitted materials
Participation in the discussion of textual sources, final short oral presentation, submission of a final paper on one of the topics of the course, written in English or German.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Examination topics
30%: Participation in class discussion
30%: Oral Presentation
40%: Essay of 2.500-3000 words (footnotes and Bibliography not included). Submission via email. Submission date: 31 August 2021
30%: Oral Presentation
40%: Essay of 2.500-3000 words (footnotes and Bibliography not included). Submission via email. Submission date: 31 August 2021
Reading list
Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981
Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory. trans. N.M. Paul and W.S. Palmer, Zone Books, 1988
Eduardo Cadava, Words of Light. Theses on the Photography of History, Princeton University Press, 1997
Philip Carabott, Yiannis Hamilakis, Eleni Papargyriou (eds.), Camera Graeca: Photographs, Narratives, Materialities, Ashgate, 2015
Derrida, Athens, Still Remains, trans. Michael Nass and Pacsale Birault, Fordham, 2010
Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory. trans. N.M. Paul and W.S. Palmer, Zone Books, 1988
Eduardo Cadava, Words of Light. Theses on the Photography of History, Princeton University Press, 1997
Philip Carabott, Yiannis Hamilakis, Eleni Papargyriou (eds.), Camera Graeca: Photographs, Narratives, Materialities, Ashgate, 2015
Derrida, Athens, Still Remains, trans. Michael Nass and Pacsale Birault, Fordham, 2010
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