About this course

• Organization of place, time, and writing medium
• Fundamental tools for constructing prose
• Narrative: definition and types
• Distinction between author and narrator
• Types of narrators
• Narrative modes
• Narrative time
• Key concepts: narrative, narrator, setting, characters, plot, point of view, mode, and time
• Structural elements of writing (narrators, characters, setting, time, plot, etc.)
• Structure and techniques of prose through renowned Greek and international authors, both classic and contemporary
• Depiction and design of the setting
• Categories of setting (historical setting, world-building, mythology, location, city, country, dystopia, etc.)
• Character development and evolution, literary examples, and stylistic approaches
• Historical overview of theoretical approaches to plot
• Action and its compositional elements in plot construction
• Key elements to analyze in literary texts: narrator, narrative modes, time in narration