COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:PYGMALIONS MUTATIONS: THE ARTIFICIAL HUMAN IN LITERATURE AND FILM

Course Information
TitleΣΥΓΚΡΙΤΙΚΗ ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΟΛΟΓΙΑ: ΜΕΤΑΛΛΑΞΕΙΣ ΤΟΥ ΠΥΓΜΑΛΙΩΝΑ: Ο ΤΕΧΝΗΤΟΣ ΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΣ ΣΤΗΝ ΛΟΓΟΤΕΧΝΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΤΟΝ ΚΙΝΗΜΑΤΟΓΡΑΦΟ / COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:PYGMALIONS MUTATIONS: THE ARTIFICIAL HUMAN IN LITERATURE AND FILM
Title in GermanVergleichende Literaturwissenschaft: Pygmalions Erben. Der künstliche Mensch in Literatur und Film
CodeΒΚ0207
FacultyPhilosophy
SchoolGerman Language and Literature
Cycle / Level1st / Undergraduate
Teaching PeriodWinter/Spring
CommonYes
StatusActive
Course ID600000042

Programme of Study: PPS Tmīmatos Germanikīs Glṓssas kai Filologías (2020-sīmera)

Registered students: 0
OrientationAttendance TypeSemesterYearECTS
KORMOSEPILEGOMENA EIDIKEUSĪSWinter/Spring-6
Class Information
Academic Year2015 – 2016
Class PeriodWinter
Faculty Instructors
Weekly Hours3
Class ID
600000325
Course Type 2016-2020
  • Scientific Area
Course Type 2011-2015
Specific Foundation / Core
Mode of Delivery
  • Face to face
Digital Course Content
Erasmus
The course is also offered to exchange programme students.
Language of Instruction
  • German (Instruction, Examination)
Learning Outcomes
Learning outcomes and competences: • Familiarization with the multiple Aspects of the Pygmalion Myth • Adequate knowledge of the theoretical positions on the opposition Natur- Art/technology in the context of the discussion of artificial beings (automata, robots, clones) and their impact on dystopian fictions • Practice the individual bibliographical research, structuring and performance of an oral presentation
General Competences
  • Apply knowledge in practice
  • Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
  • Work autonomously
  • Work in teams
  • Work in an interdisciplinary team
  • Demonstrate social, professional and ethical commitment and sensitivity to gender issues
  • Be critical and self-critical
  • Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
The course examines the filmic and literary manifestations of the Pygmalion theme in its multiple aspects, such as the male conceptions of the ideal woman, the antagonism between nature and art and the hybris-problematic of the man in the role of the creator. Emphasis will be given on the literary motive of artificial life (automata, robots, androids, clones) which poses the problematic of the border between nature and technae and manifests itself often in terms of an identity-crisis.
Educational Material Types
  • Notes
  • Slide presentations
  • Multimedia
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
  • Use of ICT in Course Teaching
  • Use of ICT in Communication with Students
Course Organization
ActivitiesWorkloadECTSIndividualTeamworkErasmus
Seminars783.1
Reading Assigment341.4✓
Project351.4
Exams30.1
Total1506
Student Assessment
Description
constant, active participation, oral presentation with handout and final written exam. There is the possibility to submit a paper for extra 3 ECTS.
Student Assessment methods
  • Written Exam with Extended Answer Questions (Summative)
  • Written Assignment (Summative)
  • Performance / Staging (Formative)
  • oral presentation and Handout
Bibliography
Additional bibliography for study
Baldick, Chris, In Frankenstein's shadow : myth, monstrosity, and nineteenth-century writing. Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1987. Booker, M. Keith, The dystopian impulse in modern literature : fiction as social criticism. Greenwood Press, 1994 Brandstetter, Gabriele (Hrsg.), Romantische Wissenspoetik: die Künste und die Wissenschaften um 1800, Stiftung für Romantikforschung ; 26 (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2004); Clark, Timothy The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment, Cambridge introductions to literature (Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011), (chapter 6: Posthumanism and the ´´End of Nature´). Cornwell, Neil: The literary fantastic : from Gothic to postmodernism. New York [u.a.] : Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990. Elnser / Frick: „Scientia Poetica“: Literatur Und Naturwissenschaft (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2004); Erlich, Richard D., Dunn, Thomas P., Clockwork worlds : mechanized environments in SF. Greenwood Press, 1983. Freud, Sigmund: Das Unheimliche. GW 12, 1947. S 229-268. Fröhler, Birgit, Seelenspiegel und Schatten-Ich: Doppelgängermotiv und Anthropologie in der Literatur der deutschen Romantik (Marburg: Tectum-Verl, 2004) Gendolla, Peter, Anatomien der Puppe . Zur Geschichte des MaschinenMenschen bei Jean Paul, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Villiers de l'Isle-Adam und Hans Bellmer . Heidelber 1992. Geyer, Christian, Biopolitik: die Positionen ,Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 2001 Halberstam, Judith, Skin shows : gothic horror and the technology of monsters. Duke University Press, 1995 Hasselmann, Kristiane Schmidt, Sandra, Utopische Körper : Visionen künftiger Körper in Geschichte, Kunst und Gesellschaft. München : Fink, c2004 Haupt Sabine, “Pygmalions Erben. Spätromantische Kunst- und Medientheorie“. In: Sabina Becker u. Barbara Korte (Hg.): Visuelle Evidenz. Fotografie im Reflex von Literatur und Film. Berlin u. New York 2011, S. 39-53 King, Christa, Goodall, Jane R., Frankenstein's science : experimentation and discovery in Romantic culture, 1780-1830. Ashgate, c2008. Lachmann, Renate Erzählte Phantastik: zu Phantasiegeschichte und Semantik phantastischer Texte, Suhrkamp-Taschenbuch Wissenschaft ; 1578 (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2002). Lachmann, Renate, Text und Wissen : technologische und anthropologische Aspekte , c2003. McLane Maureen, Romanticism and the human sciences : poetry, population, and the discourse of the species. Cambridge University Press, 2000. Moylan, Tom, Scraps of the untainted sky : science fiction, utopia, dystopia, Westview Press, c2000. Nardo, Don, Readings on Frankenstein, Greenhaven Press, c2000. Otis, Laura, Literature and science in the nineteenth century : an anthology. Oxford University Press, 2002. Rutsky, R. L.. “The Mediation of Technology and Gender: Metropolis, Nazism, Modernism”. New German Critique. No. 60, Special Issue on German Film History (Autumn, 1993), σ. 3-32. Ryan, Matthew and Sellars, Simon (ed.), Demanding the Impossible: Utopia, Dystopia and Science-Fiction, COLLOQUY text theory critique, issue 17, August 2009. Monash University, Schmitz-Emans, M. „Die Poesie der Maschinen. Literarische Darstellungen von Automaten und Kunstmenschen in Zeichen aesthetischer Autoreflexion“, Neohelicon 24 (1997): 237–280; Schmitz-Emans, Monika: Literature and Science. Würzburg, K&N 2008. Squier. M. Susan, A Tale Meant to Inform, Not to Amuse, Reviewed work(s): Oryx and Crake: A Novel by Margaret Atwood, Science, New Series, Vol. 302, No. 5648 (Nov. 14, 2003), pp. 1154-1155 Published by: American Association for the Advancement of Science, http://www.jstor.org/stable/3835475, 05/07/2009. Stingelin, Martin, Biopolitik und Rassismus, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 2003 Stripling, Mahala Yates, Bioethics and medical issues in literature. Greenwood Press, 2005. Zeissler, Elena. Dunkle Welten: Die Dystopie Auf Dem Weg Ins 21. Jahrhundert. Marburg: Tectum-Verlag, 2008 Ηolmes, Richard, The age of wonder. How the Romantic Generation discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science. London, Harper 2009. Zu Filmanalyse Beicken Peter, Wie interpretiert man einen Film?, Reclam, Stuttgart 2004 Faulstich Werner& Faulstich Ingeborg, Modelle der Filmanalyse, Fink, München 1977 Faulstich Werner, Einführung in die Filmanalyse, Narr, Tübingen 1980 Gronemeyer Andrea, Film Schnellkurs, DuMont, Köln 2004 (11998)
Last Update
23-02-2016