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Th 1:00PM-2:30, 124 East Quad Special Topics: Narrative
in the Ancient World: The Art of Storytelling How did people in the ancient world tell stories? How did they manipulate time, characters, the place or pace of telling to increase the impact of a tale? Did narrative techniques differ between spoken and written stories, between poetry and prose? Stories can also be told with art rather than words, as visual narratives. Can we think about artistic narratives in the same way as verbal ones? This course will consider ancient narratives in the literature and art of the ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome. We will examine ways in which ancient story-tellers manipulated their narratives for greater emphasis, reconstructing our ideas of narrative to deal with visual narratives as well as verbal. (Dusinberre, Beth) |
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