21L.012 | Spring 2004 | Undergraduate

Forms of Western Narrative

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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  

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