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Root number
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515711 |
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Semester
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FS2026 |
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Type of course
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Lecture |
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Allocation to subject
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English Languages and Literatures |
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Type of exam
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Written exam |
| Title |
Literatures and Art History: Sustainable Forms (MA Lecture Literature) (GRADED) |
| Description |
Modernity is regularly associated with the ubiquity of ephemeral forms: artifacts, media, and content that are accessible only briefly and consumed rapidly. These media contribute to an unsustainable culture of waste, a development that has only accelerated due to the mistaken belief that the digital sphere is immaterial. But as we know, such media practices go hand in hand with the devastating exhaustion of natural and human resources. This lecture series centers on the question of what makes certain aesthetic forms sustainable. Which characteristics or practices grant these forms either historical longevity or the capacity to be repeatedly taken up and transformed across different media, contexts, and eras – without losing their recognizability? Particular attention will be given to the connections between sustainable forms and current discourses on ecological sustainability, cultural nostalgia, slow media, and technological innovation. The series brings together perspectives from Art History, American Studies, and German Studies.
Required Reading:
Folda, Jaroslav. “The Use of Çintamani as Ornament : A Case Study in the Afterlife of Forms.” Byzantine Images and Their Afterlives. Ed. Lynn Jones, 2014. 183-204.
Levine, Caroline. Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton UP, 2015. Ix-23.
Payne, Alina. “The Architect’s Hand: Making Tropes and Their Afterlife.” Founding Myths: gta papers 3. Eds. Laurent Stalder, Tom Avermaete, Maarten Delbeke, Philip Ursprung, and Ita Heinze-Greenberg. Zurich: gta Verlag, 2019, 28-40.
Portney, Kent E. Sustainability. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2015.
Zapf, Hubert. Literature as Cultural Ecology: Sustainable Texts. London: Bloomsbury, 2016. 3-9. |
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ILIAS-Link (Learning resource for course)
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Registrations are transmitted from CTS to ILIAS (no admission in ILIAS possible).
ILIAS
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Link to another web site
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| Lecturers |
Prof. Dr.
Beate Fricke, Institute of Art History ✉
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Prof. Dr.
Nicolas Detering, Institute of Germanic Languages and Literatures ✉
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ECTS
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3 |
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Recognition as optional course possible
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Yes |
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Grading
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1 to 6 |
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| Dates |
Thursday 12:15-14:00 Weekly
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Thursday 28/5/2026 12:15-16:00
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| Rooms |
Seminarraum F -102, Hörraumgebäude Unitobler
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| External rooms |
Hörraum 201, Hauptgebaüde
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| Students please consult the detailed view for complete information on dates, rooms and planned podcasts. |
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