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Semester: Sommersemester 2025

3.02.996 S Literary Theory for MA Students: “Narratives, Media, Life – Taking Narrative Theory beyond Literary Studies” -  


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Beschreibung

“All the World’s a Stage,” says Jaques in Shakespeare’s As You Like It. This play is more than 400 years old, and looking at twenty-first century public debates and media one might be more tempted to say: “All the World’s a Narrative.” ‘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.
We will begin by looking at the recent attempts to theorise and develop analytical toolkits for “factual narratives”. We will then turn to discuss practical examples.
The course will have a total of seven meetings. The first three meetings will be planned out so to introduce participants to the most important current approaches to narrative that go beyond the field of literature. for the remaining meetings suggestions will be made, but suggestions by participants are also welcome. The programme for the remaining meetings will be discussed in the group and will be agreed on following the interests of participants.
The course is open to individual ways of obtaining credits proportional to the type and scope of students’ contributions (3 KP or 6 KP).
Indications for preparatory reading will be made available in Stud.IP.

lecturer

Studienbereiche

  • Studium generale / Gasthörstudium

SWS
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Lehrsprache
englisch

Für Gasthörende / Studium generale geöffnet:
Ja

Hinweise zum Inhalt der Veranstaltung für Gasthörende
“All the World’s a Stage,” says Jaques in Shakespeare’s As You Like It. This play is more than 400 years old, and looking at twenty-first century public debates and media one might be more tempted to say: “All the World’s a Narrative.” ‘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. We will begin by looking at the recent attempts to theorise and develop analytical toolkits for “factual narratives”. We will then turn to discuss practical examples. The course will have a total of seven meetings. The first three meetings will be planned out so to introduce participants to the most important current approaches to narrative that go beyond the field of literature. for the remaining meetings suggestions will be made, but suggestions by participants are also welcome. The programme for the remaining meetings will be discussed in the group and will be agreed on following the interests of participants. The course is open to individual ways of obtaining credits proportional to the type and scope of students’ contributions (3 KP or 6 KP). Indications for preparatory reading will be made available in Stud.IP.

Hinweise zur Teilnahme für Gasthörende
Lehrsprache: englisch Sichere Beherrschung des Englischen auf dem CEF-Niveau C1 ist erforderlich.

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