TIMELINE

JAN 21-23

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Tues, Jan 21


VIEW: X-Files, ‘Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose’


READ:

  1. BulletPeter Brooks, Reading for the Plot, 94-112

  2. Bullet“desire”

  3. Bullet“death drive”

  4. BulletPrimer on X-Files, ‘Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose’

  5. BulletTerms applied to the analysis of film


Thurs, Jan 23


REVIEW:

  1. Bullet Brooks Module on Plot

  2. Bullet Brooks Module on Narrative Desire



OPTIONAL:

  1. Bullet Hidden references in ‘Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose’

MODULES

FILL IN THE X; OR, THE ABCs OF NARRATOLOGY


In these first four weeks, I will introduce students to the basic structures of narrative form, specifically the distinction between "story" and "discourse" and between the "proairetic and hermeneutic codes" of narrative. Students will also begin to analyze film, thus becoming familiar with those terms from film theory that we will build on over the course of the semester. Two pop cultural shows (Star Trek: The Next Generation and The X-Files) and one experimental film (La jetée) will serve to help us in our exploration of the narrative limitations of human consciousness.

 

  INTROS

  TERMS

SYNOPSES

PRIMERS

RESOURCES

POLICIES

MATERIAL

"The Final Repose of Narrative"
 

The Final Repose of Narrative

ENGL 373H: The Theory of SF&F

INSTRUCTOR         : Prof. Felluga

OFFICE                    : HEAV 430

OFFICE HOURS      : T,Th 10:30-11:30 (or email me)

E-MAIL:                   : felluga@purdue.edu