2017-2018-1

AM-MA-SZ11-1

_Előadás, _Kollokvium

AM-MA-SZ1, Any Course

AM-MA-SZ1, Any Course Lecture

Angol-Amerikai Intézet (BTK Bölcsészettudományi Kar)

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Modern literary and cultural theory distinguishes two major "turns" since the crystallization of the humanities disciplines in the 19th century. These are the "linguistic turn" which occured in the first half of the 20th century, primarily inspired by the concepts of Ferdinand de Saussure, and the "pictorial or iconic turn" which emerged in the last quarter of the 20th century. The chief theoreticians of the latter are the American W. J. T. Mitchell and the German art historian, Hans Belting. It is quite obvious that Anglo-American culture cannot be examined without taking into consideration the above theoretical concerns which then have to be completed by case studies, applied to various media of cultural representations. The course primarily relies on the methods and achievements of classical and postmodern iconology but also refers to semiotics and poststructuralist subject-theories on the one hand and traditional philology on the other. Topics include the multimediality of cultural representations, image-word relations throughout the centuries, concluding with such up-to-date phenomena as film, hypertext, and computer applications.