This course aims at introducing and applying central concepts and categories of narrative theory. Key areas are:
- The tripartite model of author, narrator and reader
- narrative point of view
- strategies of rendering consciousness
- narrative (re-)constructions of time and space
- unreliable narration
- intertextuality
Our study of these categories will be accompanied by and advanced in classroom based analyses of selected narrative texts. A reader with selected (primary and secondary) texts will be made available at the beginning of term.
Narrative Analysis is one of the five major areas relevant to literary studies (prose, drama, poetry, film, and literary theory) and is offered once every year. Students are advised to have attended all analysis courses before registering for their final exams.