About this course

• Organization of place, time, and writing medium.
• Basic tools for constructing prose.
• Narration: definition and types.
• Distinction between author and narrator.
• Types of narrators.
• Narrative modes.
• Narrative time.
• Key concepts: narrative, narrator, setting, characters, plot, perspective, mode, and time.
• Structural elements of writing (narrators, characters, setting, time, plot, etc.).
• Structure and techniques of prose through renowned, past and contemporary, Greek and international writers.
• Representation and design of the setting.
• Categories of setting (historical setting, world-building, fiction, location, city, country, dystopia, etc.).
• Character development and evolution. Literary examples and styles.
• Historical overview of theoretical approaches to plot.
• Action and the compositional elements of the plot.
• Aspects to explore in literary texts as examples: narrator, narrative modes, time in narration.