480040 KO Colloquium on Literature: Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (2022S)

The course will offer an overview of main narratological concepts. Starting from the fundamental distinction between story and discourse (or fabula and sjuzhet in Russian formalist terms), different aspects of narrative analysis will be considered. In a first step, students will be introduceds to attempts at defining a narrative “grammar”, such as Vladimir Propp’s, Roland Barthes’ and A. J. Greimas’ analytical models based on “functions”. In a second step, temporal aspects of discourse, as well as narrator properties and systems of focalization will be considered. In a third step, techniques which represent consciousness and language within narratives will be studied, with an accent on free indirect discourse and dialogism in Bakhtin’s sense of the term.
All enumerated concepts will be approached through the study of exemplary theoretical writings and will be exemplified through the analysis of literary texts appertaining to modern South Slavic literatures (Marinković, Krleža, Pekić, Kiš, Ugrešić etc.).