🔵 🔴 🟡 Course description

The course aims to study narrative genres and analyze narrative practices, as they are encountered in old and new media, through linear and non-linear expressions. Through the multiple approaches of theory, from the structuralist model of 1960-1970 to the "narrative studies" of today (post-structuralist model), terms such as the point of view, the time and rhythm of the narrative, the first-person and third-person narration or the narrative gap are understood. The hero's journey, the development of a rich narrative world, the transformation of an idea into a story and a script are stages of a creative and often painful process of which we make the first draft. The student:

• knows the toolbox of narrative techniques, and recognizes the components of storytelling

• can understand the functions of narration as the main ways of making sense of reality

• is able to compose a text summary and a short script

🔵 🔴 🟡 Theory (2 hours)

1. Introduction to Narratology: When Structuralism Meets the Poetics of the Humanities (Genette, Eco, Barthes)

2. Studying the short story, applying Freitag's pyramid

3. Storytelling as creative communication: The types of folk narrative (function of the myth, fairy tales, oral tradition)

4. Basic functions of the fairy tale and the 7 main roles/characters according to Propp.

5. Mythological hero/heroine (Oedipus, Theban myth, Levis-Strauss)

6. The 6 main narrative structures and the journey of Joseph Campbell's hero

7. Third-person narratives and a realistic novel

8. Classical approaches to storytelling: showing and telling

9. Narrative Techniques in Modern Storytelling: Flow of Consciousness from Tristram Sandy, to Joyce's Molly Bloom (Ulysses)

10. Narrative techniques in postmodern storytelling (fictional autobiography), 

11. Basic principles of the script: Terminology of the script and Basic principles of a script such as the plot, the conflict, the characters, the dialogues and the development of the story.

12. Character development: heroes, antiheroes, in the secondary and minor characters. A character must be consistent, follow the conventions of the genre and promote the development of the story. 

13. Development of an idea from the beginning to the writing of a script.

🔵 🔴 🟡 Workshop (1 hour)

A series of individual and group activities and projects, which gradually introduce the student to the techniques of storytelling - e.g. short story writing, fairy tale structure, summary, characters, script.

Review language: Greek

🔵 🔴 🟡 Evaluation method:

• 50% written presentation
• 50% Oral Presentation

• Face-to-face
• Use of PowerPoint and audio-visual examples (13 lectures)
• Support of the learning process through eClass with weekly provision of audiovisual material, links, photos, extra bibliography and related information (exhibitions, cultural institutions, etc.)

https://eclass.uop.gr/courses/3712 

🔵 🔴 🟡 Course Textbooks [Eudoxus]

• Kakavoulia Maria, Politis Pericles (eds.), (2022) Narrative. A multidisciplinary view, Gutenberg
• McKee Robert (2017) The script. Essence, structure, style and basic principles, Patakis Publications

Extra Bibliography

• Eco, Umberto, Six wanderings in the forest of narration, trans. Papakonstantinou Anastasia, Ellinika Grammata, 2008
• Gerard, Genette, Figures III: The Reason for Narration, trans. Babis Lykoudis, Patakis, 2006
• Ricoeur, Paul, The narrative function, trans. Vangelis Athanasopoulos, Kardamitsa Publications, 1990
• Salmon, Christian, Storytelling, the machine that constructs stories and manipulates spirits, trans. Kafkias, Yannis, Polytropon, 2008
• Saunders, George, Swimming in the Pond in the Rain, Where Four Russian Classics Give Lessons in Creative Writing, Reading and Life, trans. Andreas Pappas, Patakis, 2021
• Stanzel, Fr. Theory of Narrative, trans. Chrysomallis-Henrich, University Studio Press, 1999
• Wood, James, How Literature Works, trans. Kostas Spatharakis, Antipodes, 2023
• Dimitromanolaki, Eleftheria, The Morphology of the Script: Narrative, Fiction and Writing, E-Book, 2018
• Kallinis, G. Handbook of Narratology: Introduction to Storytelling Techniques, Metaichmio, Athens, 2015
• Kapsomenos, E.. Narratology: Theory and methods of analysis of narrative prose, Patakis, Athens, 2011
• Cortázar, Julio, Essays and Speeches on the Short Story, the Novel and Their Relationship with Life, Crete University Press, 2023