9:30-10:45   MW         BH 317

*Carries AHLA Credit
**Meets with C513**

This course provides a historical and analytical study of various from
of Western narrative literature.  The first portion of the course will
be devoted to "simple" narrative forms and their use in more "complex"
literature.  Here we will read some traditional myths, The Babylonian
Creation Epic, selections from Genesis, some traditional and literary
fairy tales, folktales and saints' legends, and Hrafnkel's Saga.  We
will then consider how disparate narrative elements can be joined
together to form larger units; our texts for this portion of the
course will be selections from Boccaccio's Decameron, the Gospel
According to St. Luke, and Homer's Iliad.  The last half of the course
will be devoted to consideration of the two great narative traditions
of recent centuries: the romance (Daphnis & Chloe, Chretien" Yvain and
Spenser's The Faerie Queene (Book I) and the novelistic tradition
(Lazarillo de Tormes, Goethe's Sorrows of Young Werther, Fieldings
Joseph Andrews, turgenev's Fathers and Sons, Conrad's Heart of
Darkness, Beckett's Molloy and Robbe-Grillet's Jealousy).  The course
will require a good deal of reading; students can expect an average of
200 pages a week.  There will be take-home midterm and final
examinations and occasional quizzes over the assigned material.