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The class will examine how writers and historiographers approach and interpret the past in fictional storytelling and historical writing in the effort to achieve a faithful representation of characters and events. The emphasis will be on theoretical approaches to narrative. In our reading and class discussion, we will examine the narrative theory of emplotment and figurative language employed in both fiction and historiography by such theorists as Victor Shklovsky, Boris Tomashevsky, Mikhail Bakhtin, Isaiah Berlin, Paul Ricoeur, Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan, and Hayden White. We will read three novels: William Wells Brown CLOTEL, Stendhal¿s THE CHARTERHOUSE OF PARMA and Tolstoy¿s WAR AND PEACE. The course will address the need for literary theory in an interdisciplinary approach to the study of literature.
COURSE FORMAT: Seminar
Level: UGRD Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: HA COL Grading Mode: Student Option
Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.
Last Updated on MAR-30-2006
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