ENGLISH *726 / Narrative Theory

3 unit(s)

J. Donaldson

This course offers an investigation into narrative theory from early classical antecedents to the present time. On the one hand, we will focus on narrative form and narrative kinds (mythoi and genres) and on the other hand on the ontology of words in sequence, on the illusion of consecutive prose, and on the larger implications of temporal verbal relationships, as for instance in the theory of typology and the meta-literary conditions of echo and allusion.