Course Details
Country:
United Kingdom
Institution:
University of York
Course Title:
The Sense of Stories
Course Number:
ENG00066H
Course Description:
Stories are everywhere in literature; in novels of course, but also in the drama, as well as in epic, sagas and other forms of narrative poetry, and even within the confines of the lyric. We are so familiar with the characteristic features of narrative that we take it for granted that this should be so. But why should this particular mode of discourse be so pervasive? On what basis has it made such a large claim upon our attention, throughout history and across cultures—and often in fictional form at that? This module takes a theoretical look at the nature of story, or narrative, as a way of meaning; it situates the subtle and elaborate manifestations of narrative in literature within a series of much larger contexts, ranging across disciplines and media, tracing the links between high-cultural instances of story and the fundamentals of how we think. We shall be concerned
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
ENGH 309
Course URL:
https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/ENG00066H/latest
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