Narrative Media

Academic year 2011-12

Date last modified

23-4-2012 1:29

Period

Period 1

Startdate:

05-Sep-11

Enddate:

28-Oct-11

Code

HUM3036

ECTS credits

5.0

Organisational unit

University College Maastricht

Coordinator

K. Wenz

Description

The first part of the course will explore the main concepts important for narratology as story, discourse, authorship, narrator, metafiction. Besides an introductory discussion of concepts and their application to short examples, students will be familiarized with various theories on narratology. During the second part of the course, different media will be analyzed. It will be studied how these different media can construct a story and how the medium itself has an impact on the stories’ structure. Media we will discuss and analyse are short story, fixed image, series of images, comics, movies, music, hypertext and digital games. For students with an interest in literature mainly I suggest the textbook by Fludernik (2009), for students with a main interest in media I suggest Ryan 2004. We read chapters from both books in this course. The literature is available in the library.

Goals

• To familiarize students with the methods of narratology (the study of storytelling) and important theories revolving around narratology. • To analyze different media such as literature, paintings, photographs, comics, film, film music, digital literature and computer games.

Instruction language

Prerequisites

At least two 200 level courses of the Humanities or the Social Sciences.

Recommended literature

• Fludernik, Monika (2009). An introduction to narratology. London: Routledge. • Ryan, M.-L. (2004). Narrative across Media. Lincoln, London: University of Nebraska Press.

Teaching methods

PBL
PRESENTATION(S)
LECTURE(S)
ASSIGNMENT(S)
PAPER(S)

Assessment methods

FINAL PAPER
ATTENDANCE
PARTICIPATION
WRITTEN EXAM
ORAL EXAM
TAKE HOME EXAM

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