Forms of Western Narrative
21L.012 · Literature · Undergraduate · Fall 2007
Prof. James Buzard
This course examines some leading examples of major genres of storytelling in the Western tradition, among them epic (Homer’s <em>Odyssey</em>), romance (from the Arthurian tradition), and novel (Cervantes’s <em>Don Quixote</em>). We will be asking why people tell (and have always told) stories, how they tell them, why they might tell them the way they do, and what difference it makes how they tell them. We’ll combine an investigation of the changing formal properties of narratives with conside…
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