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Forms of Western Narrative

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States21L.012
Free, no sign-up neededFall 2007English
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This course examines some leading examples of major genres of storytelling in the Western tradition, among them epic (Homer’s Odyssey), romance (from the Arthurian tradition), and novel (Cervantes’s Don Quixote). We will be asking why people tell (and have always told) stories, how they tell them, why they might tell them the way they do, and what difference it makes how they tell them.

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