Narrative Across Media

6 ECTS credits
180 h study time

Offer 2 with catalog number 4020164FNR for all students in the 2nd semester at a (F) Master - specialised level.

Semester

2nd semester

Enrollment based on exam contract

Impossible

Grading method

Grading (scale from 0 to 20)

Can retake in second session

Yes

Taught in

English

Faculty

Faculty of Languages & Humanities

Department

Linguistics and Literary Studies

Educational team

Mathias Meert (course titular)

Activities and contact hours

13 contact hours Lecture
13 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
75 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study

Course Content

While the ‘narrative turn’ in the humanities and social sciences expanded the study of narrative to various disciplines, narrative research has undergone a ‘medial turn’. This course focuses on narrative and storytelling across media and demonstrates the productivity of medium awareness in the analysis of narrative. The course examines a variety of media – ranging from theater, radio play, and film to graphic novels, video grames, music, and tv series – to focus on how media affect storytelling (differently) and what (new) forms of narrativity emerge in each medium.

Course material

Digital course material (Recommended) : A reader with selected primary and secondary sources will be provided on Canvas.

Additional info

Additional reading (basis of definitions and analytical categories to be introduced by the lecturer):

Bolter, Jay David & Richard Grusin. Remediation: Understanding New Media. 1999. Cambridge/London: The MIT Press, 2000.

Grishakova, Marina & Marie-Laure Ryan (eds.). Intermediality and Storytelling. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 2010.

Heinen, Sandra & Roy Sommer (eds.). Narratology in the Age of Cross-Disciplinary Research. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 2009.

Herman, David, Manfred Jahn & Marie-Laure Ryan (eds.). Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory. 2005. London/New York: Routledge, 2008.

Kelleter, Frank (ed.). Media of Serial Narrative. Columbus: The Ohio State University, 2017.

Meelberg, Vincent. New Sounds, New Stories: Narrativity in Contemporary Music. Amsterdam: Leiden University Press, 2006.

Mildorf, Jarmila & Till Kinzel. Audionarratology: Interfaces of Sound and Narrative. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 2016.

Mitchell, J. T. W. Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation. Chicago/London: The University of Chicago Press, 1994.

Page, Ruth E. Stories and Social Media: Identities and Interaction. New York: Routledge, 2013.

Rippl, Gabriele (ed.). Handbook of Intermediality: Literature – Image – Sound – Music. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 2015.

Ryan, Marie-Laure & Jan-Noël Thon (eds.). Storyworlds across Media: Toward a Media-Conscious Narratology. Lincoln/London: University of Nebraska Press, 2014.

Thon, Jan-Noël. Transmedial Narratology and Contemporary Media Culture. Lincoln/London: University of Nebraska Press, 2016.

Verstraten, Peter. Film Narratology. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009.

Learning Outcomes

Algemene competenties

The course familiarizes students with a broad range of media and raises their medium awareness. Its transmedial narratological approach enables students to approach different media (both old and new) by focusing on their ways of storytelling and, thus, provides students with a solid basis for future intermedial research. The design of the course sets out from the assumption that students are familiar with prose narration and have already acquired a basic knowledge of narratological concepts that the course will allow them to refresh, transfer, and expand to other media. Students will learn how to recognize and examine the specifics of storytelling in different media. Given the ubiquitous nature of narrative, the critical skills acquired in this course will be highly transferable and useful in various professional fields. On the whole, the course enables students to better understand how media shape narrative and why and how we tell stories (differently).

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 60% of the final mark.
Practical Exam determines 10% of the final mark.
Other Exam determines 10% of the final mark.
LEC Practical Assignment determines 20% of the final mark.

Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Examen Mondeling with a relative weight of 60 which comprises 60% of the final mark.

Within the Practical Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Written quiz with a relative weight of 10 which comprises 10% of the final mark.

Note: Written quiz in week3

Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Participatie klas with a relative weight of 10 which comprises 10% of the final mark.

Note: Active participation in class

Within the LEC Practical Assignment category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Practical exercise with a relative weight of 20 which comprises 20% of the final mark.

Note: Practical exercise (i.e. in-class presentation o example case

Additional info regarding evaluation

The final grade is based on the following categories:

Active participation in class determines 10% of the final mark.

Practical exercise (i.e. in-class presentation of example case) determines 20% of the final mark.

Written quiz in week 3 determines 10% of the final mark.

Oral exam determines 60% of the final mark.

Allowed unsatisfactory mark

The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context