CLCS 204 Story-Making Material: Creative Commerce in Switzerland
In this course, students will explore both ideas and practice surrounding the crafting, making, doing, collecting, and promoting of stories and of authorial personas. What are the different facets of Switzerland's creative, story-based commerce, and how do they shape narrative products and their reception? Via case studies of translation, publishing, museum and foundation centers and practices, as well as of short texts and author-based promotion, the course will interrogate questions of form, (re)presentation and creation and their intersections with the commercial drive behind the circulation of stories in Swiss spaces.
Students will engage with the materiality of stories from the point of view of publishers, sites of translation, libraries, museums and exhibitions, book stores, and book fairs across Switzerland. This course will conclude with a "hands-on" component and subsequent reflection, as students themselves undertake virtual and actual book-making and book promotion projects.
Offered
Summer