| Bemerkung |
In his The Sense of an Ending (1967), Frank Kermode posits "fiction" as our way of patterning, structuring, and mapping reality, tying it to our sense of time and our thoughts towards mortality. The analysis of literary works, then, is to be understood as a crucial matter for grasping the way we understand our reality.
Kermode will provide the central text of our course, but first we need to trace the history of the idea of "fiction", from Plato and Aristotle to Auerbach, and contemporary debates in life writing and narratology.
A reading list will be available in October. |
