Intermedial Narratology

Course Information
TitleΔιαμεσική αφηγηματολογία / Intermedial Narratology
CodeΕΜ-6
Interdepartmental ProgrammeSemiotics, Culture and Communication
Collaborating SchoolsFrench Language and Literature
Italian Language and Literature
Journalism and Mass Communications
Architecture
Cycle / Level2nd / Postgraduate
Teaching PeriodWinter/Spring
CommonNo
StatusActive
Course ID600014989

Programme of Study: Semiotics, Culture and Communication

Registered students: 28
OrientationAttendance TypeSemesterYearECTS
KORMOSElective CoursesWinter/Spring-7.5

Class Information
Academic Year2021 – 2022
Class PeriodWinter
Faculty Instructors
Weekly Hours3
Class ID
600198295
Course Type 2011-2015
Knowledge Deepening / Consolidation
Mode of Delivery
  • Distance learning
Digital Course Content
Erasmus
The course is also offered to exchange programme students.
Language of Instruction
  • Greek (Instruction, Examination)
Prerequisites
Required Courses
  • ΥΜ-1 Semiotic and Cultural Theories
General Prerequisites
The course presupposes that students are simultaneously enrolled in the required course YM-1 Theory of semiotics and culture, and that they are able to read relevant bibliography in English or French as well as Greek
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of the course, students will be able to analyse narratives of different kinds, with focus on written and cinematic texts, to locate the semantic ideological structures behind the textual organisation and to understand how these structures are expressed on the textual level.
General Competences
  • Apply knowledge in practice
  • Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
  • Work autonomously
  • Work in teams
  • Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
  • Demonstrate social, professional and ethical commitment and sensitivity to gender issues
  • Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
Week 1 Introduction Structure of course. Bibliography. Applied work. 2 Basic concepts of semiotics Reading: Λαγόπουλος & Boklund-Λαγοπούλου, Θεωρία σημειωτικής (relevant sections) Roland Barthes, Éléments de sémiologie / Elements of Semiology 3 Narrative theory: syntactic structure Reading: Λαγόπουλος & Boklund-Λαγοπούλου, Θεωρία σημειωτικής (relevant sections) Vladimir Propp, Morphology of the Russian Folktale A.-J. Greimas, Sémantique structurale (relevant chapters) 4 Narrative syntactic analysis: applied examples Reading: Λαγόπουλος & Boklund-Λαγοπούλου, Θεωρία σημειωτικής (relevant sections) 5 Narrative syntactic analysis: presentation and discussion of students' work 6 Narrative theory: semantics. Isotopies Reading: Λαγόπουλος & Boklund-Λαγοπούλου, Θεωρία σημειωτικής (relevant sections) A.-J. Greimas, Sémantique structurale (relevant chapters) 7 Analysis of isotopies: applied examples Reading: Λαγόπουλος & Boklund-Λαγοπούλου, Θεωρία σημειωτικής (relevant sections) 8 Analysis of isotopies: presentation and discussion of students' work 9 Interrelationships of codes and themes: theory and applied examples Reading: Λαγόπουλος & Boklund-Λαγοπούλου, Θεωρία σημειωτικής (relevant sections) 10 Interrelationships of codes and themes: presentation and discussion of students' work 11 The semiotic square Reading: Λαγόπουλος & Boklund-Λαγοπούλου, Θεωρία σημειωτικής (relevant sections) 12 The semiotic square: presentation and discussion of students' work 13 Student presentations and discussion (preparation of final paper) Texts used for analysis in class: J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (in any language) Peter Jackson (dir.), The Lord of the Rings (film trilogy) George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire (in any language) David Benioff και D. B. Weiss, Game of Thrones (television drama series) and other texts according to class preferences
Keywords
Semiotics, semiology, narratology
Educational Material Types
  • Notes
  • Video lectures
  • Book
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
  • Use of ICT in Course Teaching
  • Use of ICT in Communication with Students
  • Use of ICT in Student Assessment
Description
Narratives exist in many different media: written texts, oral storytelling, theatrical performance, film and television, as well as painting, music and dance. They may be presented as fictional or as non-fiction. Stories are also often borrowed back and forth between different semiotic systems, adapted to media-specific conventions and techniques and interpreted to adjust to new cultural and social circumstances. However, the basic elements of the narrative form, such as plot, character, setting and point of view, can be identified in all narratives independently of their medium of expression. In this course, we shall use the narrative theory of A. J. Greimas to analyze narratives of different kinds, concentrating on written texts but also looking at myth, folktale, cinema, television, and the many other areas where we encounter narratives in contemporary culture.
Course Organization
ActivitiesWorkloadECTSIndividualTeamworkErasmus
Seminars39
Reading Assigment55
Project40
Written assigments53
Total187
Student Assessment
Description
Evaluation of student's work will be based on their participation in class, on oral group or individual reports, and on an original narrative analysis of a story in a medium of their choice; the text will be selected in consultation with the instructor.
Student Assessment methods
  • Written Assignment (Summative)
  • Performance / Staging (Formative, Summative)
Bibliography
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
Βασική βιβλιογραφία (με τοποθεσία στο Διαδίκτυο ή στις βιβλιοθήκες του ΑΠΘ): Λαγόπουλος, Αλέξανδρος-Φ. και Κάριν Boklund-Λαγοπούλου. Θεωρία σημειωτικής: Η παράδοση του Ferdinand de Saussure. Αθήνα: Πατάκης, 2016. P99. L346. 2016 Βιβλιοθήκες Τμημάτων Ιταλικής, Γερμανικής, Γαλλικής Αγγλικής, Τομέα ΜΝΕΣ Chandler, Daniel. 1994. Σημειωτική για αρχάριους. Μαρία Κωνσταντοπούλου, μτφ. Ανάρτηση στον ιστότοπο του ΠΜΣ Πολιτισμικές Σπουδές: Σημειωτική και Επικοινωνία, Τμήμα Νηπιαγωγών, Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Μακεδονίας. http://semiotics.nured.uowm.gr/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ΣΗΜΕΙΩΤΙΚΗ-ΓΙΑ-ΑΡΧΑΡΙΟΥΣ.pdf. Propp, Vladimir. Morphology of the folktale. 2η αναθεωρημένη έκδοση. Laurence Scott, μτφ. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1968 [1928]. PG3115. A373P73. 1979 Βιβλιοθήκη Τμήματος Αγγλικής Propp, Vladimir. Morphologie du conte. Paris: Gallimard, 1970 [1928]. GR550. P7614. 1970 Βιβλιοθήκη Τμήματος Γαλλικής Greimas, Algirdas Julien. Δομική σημασιολογία: Αναζήτηση μεθόδου. Γιάννης Παρίσης, μτφ. Αθήνα: Πατάκη, 2005. P99. G6816. 2005 Βιβλιοθήκες Τμημάτων Αγγλικής, Ιταλικής, Τομέα ΜΝΕΣ Greimas, Algirdas Julien. Sémantique structurale: Recherche de méthode. Παρίσι: Larousse, 1966. P99. G68 1966 / PC2585. G7 1966 Βιβλιοθήκη Τμήματος Γαλλικής Greimas, Algirdas Julien. Structural Semantics. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1983. P99. G6813. 1984 Βιβλιοθήκη Τμήματος Αγγλικής Καψωμένος, Ερατοσθένης. Αφηγηματολογία: Θεωρία και μέθοδοι ανάλυσης της αφηγηματικής πεζογραφίας. Αθήνα: Πατάκης, 2003. PN3383. N35K36. 2014 Βιβλιοθήκη Τομέα Κλασσικών Σπουδών Καψωμένος, Ερατοσθένης. Ποιητική: Θεωρία και μέθοδοι ανάλυσης των ποιητικών κειμένων. Αθήνα: Πατάκης, 2005. PN1049. G7K36. 2005 Βιβλιοθήκη Τομέα ΜΝΕΣ
Additional bibliography for study
Εισαγωγή στη σημειωτική Barthes, Roland. 1957. Mythologies. Παρίσι: Seuil. Barthes, Roland. 1964. Éléments de sémiologie. Communications 4: 91-135. Barthes, Roland. 1964. Rhétorique de l’image. Communications 4: 40-51. Barthes, Roland. 1972. Critical Essays. Evanston: Northwestern University Press. Berger, Arthur Asa. 1984. Signs in Contemporary Culture: An Introduction to Semiotics. Salem, Wisc.: Sheffield. Guiraud, Pierre. 1975. Semiology. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Hawkes, Terence. 1977. Structuralism and Semiotics. London: Methuen, 2. Θεωρία σημειωτικής Culler, Jonathan. 1975. Structuralist Poetics. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Eco, Umberto. 1968. La structure absente: Introduction à la recherche sémiotique. U. Esposito-Torrigiani, μτφ. Γαλλία: Mercure de France. Eco, Umberto. 1976. A Theory of Semiotics. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. Eco, Umberto. 1979. The Role of the Reader. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. Eco, Umberto. 1984. Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language. London: Macmillan. Gottdiener, Mark, Karin Boklund-Lagopoulou και Alexandros Ph. Lagopoulos, επιμ. 2003. Semiotics. Ανθολογία, 4 τόμοι. Λονδίνο, Thousand Oaks και Νέο Δελχί: Sage. Guiraud, Pierre. 1971. La sémiologie. Παρίσι: Presses Universitaires de France. Hodge, Robert and Gunther Kress. 1988. Social Semiotics. Cambridge: Polity Press. Kress, Gunther and Robert Hodge. 1979. Language as Ideology. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Lotman, Yuri M. 1990. Universe of the Mind: A Semiotic Theory of Culture. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. Saussure, Ferdinand de. 1971 [1916]. Cours de linguistique générale. Παρίσι: Payot. Saussure, Ferdinand de. 2002. Écrits de linguistique générale. Simon Bouquet και Rudolf Engler, επιμ., σε συνεργασία με την Antoinette Weil. Παρίσι: Gallimard. 3. Αφηγηματολογία Barthes, Roland. 1970. S/Z. Παρίσι: Seuil. Barthes, Roland. 1988 [1968]. Textual analysis: Poe’s ‘Valdemar’. Στο David Lodge (επιμ.), Modern criticism and theory: A reader (σελ. 172-195). Λονδίνο και Νέα Υόρκη: Longman. Μπενάτσης, Απόστολος. 2010. Θεωρία λογοτεχνίας: Δομισμός και σημειωτική. Αθήνα: Καλέντης. Courtés, Joseph. 1991. Analyse sémiotique du discours: De l’énoncé á l’énonciation. Παρίσι: Hachette. Fontanille, Jacques. 1998. Sémiotique du discours. Limoges: PULIM. Fontanille, Jacques. 1999. Sémiotique et littérature: Essais de méthode. Παρίσι: Presses Universitaires de France. Greimas, Algirdas Julien. 1970. Du sens: Essais sémiotiques. Παρίσι: Seuil. Greimas, Algirdas Julien. 1976. Sémiotique et sciences sociales. Παρίσι: Seuil. Greimas, Algirdas Julien. 1983. Du sens II. Παρίσι : Seuil. Greimas, Algirdas Julien. 1987. On Meaning. London: Frances Pinter. Greimas, Algirdas Julien και Joseph Courtés. 1979. Sémiotique: Dictionnaire raisonné de la théorie du langage. Παρίσι: Hachette. Greimas, Algirdas Julien και Joseph Courtés. 1986. Sémiotique : Dictionnaire raisonné de la théorie du langage. Τόμος 2. Παρίσι: Hachette. Greimas, Algirdas Julien και Jacques Fontanille. 1991. Sémiotique des passions: Des états des choses aux états d’âme. Παρίσι: Seuil. Hénault, Anne. 1979. Les enjeux de la sémiotique. 2η έκδοση. Παρίσι: Presses Universitaires de France. Hénault, Anne. 1992. Histoire de la sémiotique. Παρίσι: Presses Universitaires de France. Hénault, Anne. 1983. Narratologie, sémiotique générale: Les enjeux de la sémiotique 2. Παρίσι: Presses Universitaires de France. Schleifer, Ronald. 1987. A. J. Greimas and the Nature of Meaning. London and Sydney: Croom Helm.
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10-10-2018