About this course

• Organization of space, time, and writing medium
• Basic tools of prose construction
• Narration: definition, types
• Distinction between author and narrator
• Types of narrators
• Narrative modes
• Narrative time
• Key narrative concepts: story, narrator, setting, characters, plot, perspective, mode, and time
• Building blocks of writing (narrators, characters, setting, time, plot, etc.)
• Structure and techniques of prose through established, older and contemporary, Greek and international writers
• Depiction and design of setting
• Categories of setting (historical setting, world-building, myth-making, location, city, country, dystopia, etc.)
• Character development and evolution – Literary examples, styles
• Historical overview of theoretical approaches to plot
• Action and its structural elements in plot development
• Elements to analyze in literary texts as examples: narrator, narrative techniques, time in narration