Lehrende/r: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Oliver Scheiding
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar
Anzeige im Stundenplan: Adv. Research Sem.
Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 30
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches: The recent explosion of material and object-oriented theories in the humanities and social science caused an intensified concern with how things make people, how objects mediate social relationships, and how inanimate objects can be read as having a form of agency of their own. As an interdisciplinary endeavor, material culture studies blurs disciplinary boundaries between ethnography, sociology , art history, and literary studies. In literary studies there seems to exist an increasing rift between scholars who focus on issues of materiality (i.e., media materialities, history of the book, print culture, affect, presence, embodiment, posthermeneutics, new materialisms, futures of philology), and those focusing on questions of meaning (interpretation, representation, signification, semiotics, hermeneutics). In this seminar we will discuss the increasing engagement with materiality in literary studies, reading a number of foundational texts and current work, to discuss issues such as materiality and meaning, reading and using, material and affective dimensions of texts and readers' encounters with them, indigenous material rhetorics and mediascapes, digital literary studies, and the relevance of object-oriented research methods for literary studies. A coursepack of texts will be available on ILIAS.
