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3.02.996 S Literary Theory for MA Students: Taking Narrative Theory beyond Literary Studies -  


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In recent years, ‘Narrative’ has become a buzz word far beyond literary studies. Many disciplines in the humanities have taken a ‘narrative turn’, and many public debates have revolved around the rise or the rejection of certain ‘narratives.’ But to date, we still seem to be lacking established conceptions for the description and analysis of these diverse kinds of narrative.
The field of narratology has produced theoretical approaches and descriptive tools to literary narrative that are familiar to all students of literature today. But a “universal narratology” remains one of the unfinished projects in the theory of narrative. Since the turn of the twenty-first century, a number of proposals has been made in the fields of literary studies and philosophy about how to approach ‘non-literary narratives’.
This course will focus on narratives outside the confines of literature. It has a professionalising dimension, since current students may come to work in areas where they encounter ‘non-literary’ narratives, which may be relevant in various forms to their future work settings.
The course began approaching this topic in the previous semester, but will be open to new participants. We will recapitulate the recent attempts to theorise and develop analytical toolkits for “factual narratives” as well as our preliminary ideas about how to modify the institute’s ‘narratology handout’ in order to make it work also for non-literary narratives. We will then turn to discuss practical examples.
The course will have a total of seven meetings. The course plan will be agreed in the first meeting. I will make suggestions as well as invite suggestions and ideas from the participants. The course should be driven by the specific interests that participants bring to it.
The course is open to individual ways of obtaining credits proportional to the type and scope of students’ contributions (generally 3 KP, as part of one of the suitable MA modules; options for BA credits also exist, but unfortunately not within the M.Ed. programmes).
Relevant materials will be made available in Stud.IP.

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Study fields

  • Anglistik

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englisch

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