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10 Outubro 2019, 18:00 • Ana Cristina Ferreira Mendes

The implications of new media in visual representation. Reading assignments:

•Bolter, Jay, and Richard Grusin. 2000. Remediation: Understanding New Media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Chapter “Immediacy, Hypermediacy, and Remediation” •Bolter, Jay. 2019. The Digital Plenitude: The Decline of Elite Culture and the Rise of New Media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Introduction

Supplementary reading:  Benjamin, Walter. 2003. “The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility.” 1939 (third version). Trans. Howard Eiland. Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Vol. 4: 1938-1940. Eds. Howard Eiland and Michael W. Jennings. Cambridge, MA and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard UP. 251-283.

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3 Outubro 2019, 18:00 • Ana Cristina Ferreira Mendes

The centrality of vision (occularcentrism) in the production of meaning in contemporary culture. Global image production and consumption.  The critical potentialities of images (the different readings that an image may imply). Visual representation as an act of political resistance: the case of the resignifying of national flags.

Reading assignments:

•Haakenson, Thomas O. “The Refugee Affect: Ai Weiwei in Berlin.” EuropeNow.  April 4, 2019. https://www.europenowjournal.org/2019/04/04/refugees-and-refusals-ai-weiwei-and-his-art-residency-in-berlin/ •Sturken, Marita, and Lisa Cartwright. 2009 [2001]. Practices of Looking:  An Introduction to Visual Culture. 2nd ed. New York: OUP. Chapter 1: “Images, Power and Politics”.

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26 Setembro 2019, 18:00 • Ana Cristina Ferreira Mendes

From novel to Netflix: Levels of adaptation in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace (guest lecture by Mirko Casagranda, Associate Professor, University of Calabria, Italy).

Reading assignments:

•Atwood, Margaret. 1998. “In Search of Alias Grace: On Writing Canadian Historical Fiction”, The American Historical Review, 103:5, 1503-1516. •Venuti, Lawrence. 2009. “Translation, Intertextuality, Interpretation”, Romance Studies, 27:3, 157-173. 

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19 Setembro 2019, 18:00 • Ana Cristina Ferreira Mendes

Course description, aims and methodologies (including assessment and grading criteria of critical essays). Class policies. Office hours (Mondays 1-2 p.m.  at the Centre for English Studies; the appointment should be made in advance by email to anafmendes@campus.ul.pt).

NOTE 1: For student-led discussions (oral presentations), discussion questions are to be submitted 24 hours in advance. For the critical essay, students must draft a work plan and discuss it beforehand.

NOTE 2:  Students are expected to bring to class the course readings in hardcopy.  Texts are available for purchase in Reprografia Verde and in a shared folder on Dropbox.