132025 SE The Interplay of Image and Text in Finno-Ugric Literature - (2023W)

Combining texts and images has been common in all cultures since their beginnings: from the pre-Christian forms of figurative text in Egypt or China or inscriptions on Greek vases, through the most diverse types of text-in-picture compositions in the course of the Renaissance, the early modern period, the Baroque, Futurism, Dadaism and Surrealism, to our present day, in which comic strips, cartoons, illustrated magazines and coffee table books have become just as commonplace as "concrete poetry" or various digital experiments to find new forms of artistic expression and stimulate unusual modes of production and perception.

In the first half of the seminar, the historical lines of development of the combination of text and image in European literature will be considered - among other things in the form of impulse presentations by the participants - and selected, introductory theoretical texts on the topic will be read and discussed together.
In the second half of the seminar, specific examples from the literature will be jointly selected, discussed and finally further analysed by the participants independently. The results of this work process will be presented towards the end of the semester in the form of longer thematic presentations and elaborated in writing in the respective seminar papers.

In the course, teaching methods such as blended learning, flipped classroom and plenary discussions are used, which requires that the students acquire certain contents independently (= through self-study and outside the lecture time).