Narrative Media

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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 and series of images, comics, movies, hyperfiction 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. The final essay has to apply the methods introduced to an example students can choose themselves. This is a course in the humanities and an approach to storytelling from social sciences or psychology is only possible in comparison to methods from the humanities.