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Introduction: Orality and Literacy |
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Epic Conventions |
Quiz 1
Reader response 1 |
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Stories within Stories: The Social Functions of Storytelling |
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Myths of Self and Society: Fates and Fatalism |
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Conflict Resolution |
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Genre and Ideology I: The Tragic Arc |
Quiz 2 |
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Approaches to History: Methods and Materials |
Reader response 2 |
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Genre and Ideology II: The Tragic View of History |
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| 9 |
Formalist Approaches to Narrative |
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Character Functions in Adventure Narratives |
Reader response 3 |
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Narrative Perspective and the Categories of Time and Space |
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Perspective and the Novelty of the Novel |
Reader response 4 |
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Mediation and the Triangulated Subject |
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Character Development and the Accumulation of Experience |
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| 15 |
Realism, Sentiment, and the Epistolary Novel |
Reader response 5 |
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Experience, Experiments, and Enlightenment Epistemology |
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| 17 |
The Enlightened Subject |
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| 18 |
Novels of Manners, Novels of Morals: The Bildungsroman |
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| 19 |
Psychology in Gothic Horror and Detective Fiction |
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| 20 |
Psychoanalytic Archetypes and Fairy-Tales |
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| 21 |
Film Screening I |
First draft of final paper due |
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Surrealism and the Subject of Psychoanalysis |
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| 23 |
Film Screening II |
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| 24 |
Modernist Ideology: Capitalist Alienation and Class Consciousness |
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Film Screening III |
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| 26 |
Late Capitalism, Pastiche, and Post-Modernism |
Final paper due |
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Narrative and New Media |
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