9:30-10:45     MW    BH 317
**Meets with C313**

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 narrative 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.