About this course

• Organization of place, time, and writing medium
• Basic tools of prose construction
• Narrative: definition, types
• Distinction between author and narrator
• Types of narrators
• Narrative modes
• Narrative time
• The concepts of the story, narrator, setting, characters, plot, point of view, mode, and time
• The structural elements of writing (narrators, characters, setting, time, plot, etc.)
• Structure and techniques of prose through renowned past and contemporary Greek and foreign authors
• Depiction and design of the setting
• Categories of setting (historical setting, world-building, fiction, location, city, country, dystopia, etc.)
• The character and its developmental journey: literary examples, style
• Historical overview of theoretical approaches to plot
• Action and the compositional elements of the plot
• Elements for analysis in literary texts as examples: narrator, narrative modes, time in narration