This intensive course introduces and investigates fictionality as a rhetorical and communicative strategy in various media and discursive contexts in a way that extricates it from fiction in the generic sense. The course presents state-of-the-art research on how fictionality helps us navigate in a contemporary mediatized cultural context, and how fictionality has been used in various historical contexts to legitimize or delegitimize actions and utterances. Furthermore, the course provides the students with the opportunity to explore the possibilities of using fictionality analysis as a tool for rhetorical and narratological investigations across a variety of academic fields. The students will learn to approach an interdisciplinary topic critically and analytically. These competences are applicable within and across a number of fields of study such as literature, film, television productions, social media, and political argumentation to name a few.The aim of the course is to provide students with a critical overview of the contemporary theories on fictionality as well as interdisciplinary tools to analyse fictionality in a range of artefacts and media texts.

Course leader
Louise Brix Jacobsen: http://pure.au.dk/portal/da/norlbj@dac.au.dkStine Slot Grumsen: http://pure.au.dk/portal/da/idesg@dac.au.dk

Target group
Master's level.Master students with an interest in fictionality as a rhetorical and communicative strategy in various media and discursive contexts.

Fee info
EUR 333: Price: Students holding a preapproval including exchange students do not pay for the course.ONLY Free-mover students and Tomplads students MUST pay for the course: Danish and EU/ES (tomplads): 333 EURNON-EU-ES students (free-mover): 998 EURBooks, course materials, social programme, and housing are not included in the tuition fee. Also be aware of course specific expenses mentioned in the description.

Scholarships
No scholarships

Aarhus University
Address: International Centre, H%C3%B8egh Guldbergsgade 4-6
Postal code: 8000
City: Aarhus
Country: Denmark
Website: www.au.dk/summeruniversity
E-mail: dfs@au.dk
Phone: +4551335274