ENG 3180 - Literary Genre: Narrative

Credits: 3

Prerequisite(s): ENG 2000 or ENG 2100 or Permission of Instructor

Description: Literary Genre: Narrative is an in-depth study of narrative as a literary form. In addition to reading and discussing narratives, we address artistic, historical, cultural, and critical questions relevant to our understanding of the development of narrative, its defining features, structures, and variations. Representative texts in a given semester will include multiple periods and subgenres but may focus on a particular theme. In this course students study oral narrative traditions as these traditions historically influence other narrative forms. Other forms of study include prose narratives, poetic narratives, short narratives, long narratives, fiction narratives, and non-fiction narratives.