Narratology (Theory of the Novel) 3301-LA2200
The course provides an overview of Western critical texts which are devoted to the study of the novel. Students will be introduced to a variety of texts coming from the representatives of major critical schools in the 20th-century. The course will focus on New Critical approaches (W. Booth, M. Schorer, R. Scholes), Bakhtin's school, structuralism (S.Chatman, R.Barthes), phenomenology and reader-response criticism (R. Ingarden, W.Iser), feminism (T. de Lauretis, S. Lanser, R. Felski), psychoanalysisand archetypal criticism (N. Frye, P. Books), postmodernism (J. Barth, L. Hutcheon), post-structuralism (J. Derrida, J. Culler, H. White)and postcolonial studies (H.L. Gates. A. Appiah). The course will address issues such as composition and aesthetics, point of view in fiction, typology of the novel, time in narrative, intertextuality and the changing relationship between fact and fiction and between fiction and politics. The course will also address briefly an issue of translatability of fiction into the language of the cinema.
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A student will acquire advanced information about : Narratology (Theory of the Novel) and will develop his/her analytical skills.
Bibliography
1. Wayne C.Booth, from The Rhetoric of Fiction, M. Schorer, "Technique as Discovery," Robert Scholes and Robert Kellog, "The Narrative Tradition."
2. R. Jacobson, "Metaphoric and Metonymic Poles," M. Bakhtin, from The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays.
3. N. Frye, from Anatomy of Criticism, S. Chatman from Story and Discourse. Borges, "The Garden of Forking Paths".
4. R. Barthes "From Work to Text" and "the Death of the Author" from Image, Music, Text; "Authors and Writers" from Critical Essays.
5. R. Ingarden, O poznaniu dziela literackiego" (On the Cognition of the Literary Work of Art"); W. Iser, "The Reading Process: A Phenomenological Approach".
7. Keith Cohen, Form Film and Fiction: the Dynamics of Exchange.
8. Sigmund Freud, from The Interpretation of Dreams. P.Brooks, "Freud's Masterplot" from Reading for the Plot.
9. Susan S. Lanser: "Toward a Feminist Narratology," Teresa de Lauretis, "Desire in Narrative".
10.Hayden White, "The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Reality," Louis O. Mink "Everyman His or Her Own Annalist," Marilyn Robinson Waldman "The Otherwise Unnoteworthy Year 711: A Reply to Hayden White".
11. Linda Hutcheon, from Narcissistic Fiction: The Metafictional Paradox. John Barth, "The Literature of Replenishment".
12. Jonathan Culler, "Toward a Theory of Non-genre Literature," Jacques Derrida, "The Law of Genre".
13. Kwame Anthony Appiah, "Is the Post- in Postmodernism the Post- in Postcolonial?" H.L. Gates, from The Signifying Monkey.
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