ENGL 115(F,S) Narrative and Narrative Experience (W)
Forming and sharing and thinking about stories is our primary way of organizing experience: through them we make life and the world understandable and
open to mastery. In this course we will read narratives across time, from antiquity to the present day, and across their wide diversity of forms, from poetry to
novels to comic books, from plays to film and television. We will investigate the
ways in which narrative has been put to use as an organizer of experience, and
the ways in which it has been put to use in specific historical and political situations. Possible authors and works include Homer, Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight, Conan Doyle, Joyce, Nabokov, and Shakespeare, among others.
Format: discussion/seminar. Requirements: 20 pages of writing in the form of
short papers. No prerequisites. Enrollment limit: 19 (expected:19). Preference
given to first-year students.