ROOM CHANGE TOMORROW – TUESDAY NOVEMBER 18

In case you haven’t seen my email, I’m posting here a reminder that we’ll be meeting tomorrow in Rosenwald 301 instead of our regular room in Harper.

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Emplotment Assignment Workshop Groups

All three meetings will take place in Walker 403.

THURSDAY at 4:30
Gabe
Andrew
Ritu
Lindsay
Ruth
Philip

FRIDAY 10:30
Ella
Ashley
Jennifer
Kristen
Anna
Angela

FRDAY 12:30
Hanna T.
Nate
Hannah S.
Karen
Hope
Yebin

Notes and Resources for Glossary Project

Your glossary entries should be posted here no later than Monday, October 21 at noon. Please make sure to select “glossary” under the list of available categories when you post, so that we can find them all in one place on the blog’s Glossary page.

Many of the terms you’re researching have complex histories and definitions. Some in particular (mimesis, for example) have been central to debates about literary and aesthetic theory, and critics have written a great deal about them. Your entries should be about 350-500 words long; you do not need to reconstruct the full range of a term’s meaning or usage but rather try to distill what is most important about it for literary critical discourse, especially as it relates to narrative and fiction. As you consult sources feel free to be in touch with questions about how to focus your entry.

As for sources, to recap from the syllabus, you should consult 2-3. Below are some suggestions; please share additional ones by leaving a comment.

•  The journals Narrative, Journal of Narrative Theory, Poetics Today, and Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies, all available electronically through the library.
• Introductory works/overviews, such as Mieke Bal’s Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative and James Phelan and Peter Rabinowitz’s A Companion to Narrative Theory, both available online through the library.
• Handbooks/Guides to Literary Criticism and Theory, such as David Mikics’ A New Handbook of Literary Terms (2007) and The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (2008), available online through the library.
• The University of Hamburg’s Living Handbook of Narratology
• The homepage of the International Society for the Study of Narrative, which has a wiki as well as helpful links.

Please include with your entry a list of all materials consulted, in MLA format. Your entries should largely synthesize various accounts and definitions in your own words; if you quote or paraphrase a specific point or example from one of your sources please include a parenthetical page reference, again as per MLA style.

In addition to your definition and description of the term you should also provide two examples from narrative works. These do not have to come from our course texts but you do need to provide all the relevant bibliographical info.

Glossary Terms

Please pick one of the following terms by leaving a comment that indicates your choice.  I’ll try to edit the original post periodically to indicate which terms are no longer available but I won’t be monitoring it constantly so please check the comments above yours to make sure your term hasn’t already been taken. In class on Tuesday we’ll discuss some resources you might consult for this project but I’d like you to poke around on your own before then and be ready to share some ideas with the class.

• allegory
• character/persona
• chronotope
• close reading
• dialogic text
• diegesis
• exegesis
• focalization
• fabula/sujet
• frame narrative
• genre
• hermeneutics
• implied author/implied reader
• intertextuality
• metafiction
• metalepsis
• metonymy
• mimesis
• mise-en-abyme
• narrative discourse
• narrative irony
• narrative voice
• plot
• point of view
• realism
• testimony/testimonio
• textuality