Narrative: The Art and Science of Storytelling - ARTS3022
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
School: School of the Arts and Media
Course Outline: School of the Arts and Media
Campus: Sydney
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisite: 48 UOC overall, including 6 UOC at level 1 and 6 UOC at level 2 in one of the following streams, Creative Writing or English Equivalent: ARTS3046
CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
Subject Area: Creative Writing
This course can also be studied in the following specialisation: English
This course develops your skills in rigorous close reading of the formal elements of narrative fiction, enabling you to better understand and appreciate how fiction works. What is a narrative? Do all narratives share formal features? How do authors construct their stories? How do readers recognize and make sense of these stories? You will learn the principles of narratology, and how it provides a poetics of fiction for critics and writers. You will gain in-depth knowledge of concepts such as free indirect discourse, perspective, unreliable narration, and the paratext. A number of recent theoretical approaches to narrative (feminist, cognitive, rhetorical) will be put into dialogue with each other and employed to anatomize novels that have provoked controversy or ethical debates amongst readers.