Narratives are not restricted to fiction, like novels or more or less short stories. They can occur in all literary genres, including poetry, drama or comics, yet they are not restricted to literary texts, either. Narratives can be found in various media, for instance in films, pictures, digital or analogous games. The question is: how do narratives work and how can we analyse narration and narratives in those different media? Can we simply apply the narratological toolkit we have acquired in literary studies, or are there any media-specific approaches?
This course intends to deepen your knowledge and understanding of the narratological basics you have acquired in the Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies course. We will first recapitulate those foundations - i.e. questions of perspective, setting, plot structure or character - with regard to literature. Most of the course will then be devoted to explore how these essential elements of narrative feature and can be analysed in exemplary case studies from various media. The emphasis of the seminar will be on the methodological framework, with the goal to enable participants to apply narratological analysis to various genres and media.
With its survey character and theoretical orientation, this course is an ideal complement to the course "Narrating Hamlet", in which the theories and methods acquired in this course here will be applied to various media manifestations of Shakespeare's famous tragedy. Taken together, both courses will make an ideal combination to complete Module 2 in BA LKM as well as in BA Lehramt GY/BK within one term.
Essential Requirements
Only students who have completed the entire Module 1 of their study programme (Lehramt GS must have completed the Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies) successfully BEFORE the beginning of the summer term are admitted to the course.
- Dozent/in: Anja Müller