The Aarhus, Hamburg, Kiel and Southern Denmark Joint Summer Course in Narrativity, Fictionality and Factuality is an intensive short session course designed for MA students interested in a brief but challenging educational experience during the summer. The course brings together students from different countries and different subject areas to create a multinational and interdisciplinary teaching environment. The title of this year’s Summer Course in Narrativity, Fictionality and Factuality is Fictionality Beyond Fiction. 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.

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