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  • Our main focus in the Summer Semester will be narratology. Nonetheless, we will dedicate the first session in February to "leftovers" from the previous semester and discuss intertextuality and the role of AI in literary criticism.

    For our discussion on the use of AI systems in research, come up with 

    • 2 points in which you think it can be useful and enhance the field
    • 2 points on its pitfalls and possible detrimental effects
    • DO NOT ASK THE BOT to provide you with these ideas - or only after you've done your own thinking/research - and then compare your arguments with those proposed by the system.

     Find out about the method of "distant reading" - you can read the NY Times article that I've shared below. How are Moretti's and his Standford Literary Lab's ideas relevant for this discussion?

    The Dictionary.com Word of the Year is hallucinate.

    https://content.dictionary.com/word-of-the-year-2023/?utm_campaign=woty2023&utm_medium=video&utm_source=anyclip


    Nigel Sussman. 2023.

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    INTERTEXTUALILTY AND ALLUSION

    READING AND DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:

    GENERAL DISCUSSION

    ·        Think about the possible uses of intertextuality and allusion in literature.

    ·        Think about how intertextuality and genre might be interconnected.

    ·        Think of two examples from your reading experience in which allusions are a marked (structurally important) feature.

    Towards the end of the session, we will explore a book-length elegy by contemporary Northern-Irish poet Stephen Sexton, If All the World and Love Were Young, based on the world(s) of a Nintendo game (Super Mario). We'll focus on the text's intertextuality and its interdisciplinary features, but we'll talk as well about elegy as a genre.