Forms of Western Narrative

Calendar

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