Instructor: Weissman T 9:30 AM – 12:20 PM
This graduate seminar is an introduction to core concepts and debates in narrative theory. It is designed to help readers and writers of literary fiction attain a better understanding of what narrative is, how it functions, and how it may be analyzed through a variety of approaches. Through the study of rhetorical, feminist, cognitive, and antimimetic theories of narrative, we will explore authors, narrators and narration; characters and focalization; plot, time, and progression; space, setting, and perspective; and reception and readers.