TIMELINE

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Tues, Jan 14


Introductions


Thurs, Jan  16


VIEW: Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘Cause & Effect’

 

READ:

  1. BulletPeter Brooks, Reading for the Plot, 23-29, 37, 48-61

  2. BulletPrimer on Star Trek, The Next Generation

  3. Bullet“story and discourse”

  4. Bullet“hermeneutic and proairetic”

  5. Bullet“narrative and narratology”

  6. BulletBrooks Module on Plot

  7. BulletBrooks Module on Narrative Desire


JAN 14-16

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

INSTRUCTOR         : Prof. Felluga

OFFICE                    : HEAV 430

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

E-MAIL:                   : felluga@purdue.edu

ENGL 373H: The Theory of SF&F