HENK00045U English, 2013 curriculum - Free topic 15: Narrative: Theory and Practice
Departing from standard notions of mimesis and moving gradually into some of the most recent theories concerning the mechanisms and effects of literature, we will look at the principal constituents of narrative prose and examine the interplay between form and content, beginning and ending, voice and characterization, language, ambiguity, indeterminacy and discuss the engagement of the author and the reader with the text. We will study both verbal and visual works from different parts of the Occidental English speaking world: the Grand Narrative, self-reflexive and experimental stories and the so-called ‘post-postmodern’ novel of the twenty-first century.
Provisional reading list:
P. Cobley, Narrative (2001); E. Brontë, Wuthering Heights (1847); P. Auster, The Invention of Solitude (1982); J. Barnes, Flaubert’s Parrot (1984); J. Safran Foer, Here I Am (2016) along with a selection of shorter theoretical and narrative texts that will all be uploaded to ABSALON in due course.
- Category
- Hours
- Class Instruction
- 28
- Preparation
- 176,75
- Total
- 204,75
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Other
- Exam registration requirements
This course only leads to exams Free Topic 1A + 1B, Free Topic 2A + 2B and Free Topic 3A + 3B.
Criteria for exam assesment
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- HENK00045U
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Level
- Full Degree MasterFull Degree Master choice
- Duration
- 1 semester
- Placement
- Spring
- Schedule
- See schedule
- Study board
- Study board of English, Germanic and Romance Studies
Contracting department
- Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies
Course Coordinators
- Inge Birgitte Siegumfeldt (6-766c686a7870436b7870316e7831676e)