Structuralism and narrative analysis

Pre-requisites: There are no preconditions

Course objectives: Introducing the students to the origins of structuralism and the relevant theoretical and methodological issues in structural anthropology and folklore. Investigation of different narrative discourses.

Course description: Different narrative discourses (anthropological, folklorist, historical, literary, conversational) in oral and written form are subject to analysis in this course. The study of some major structural and discourse analytic methods used in anthropology

Learning Outcomes: Students become familiar with fundamental methods and learn how to apply them to selected material. Training students for a variety of narrative and discursive analysis. Training students to become autonomous structural analysts.

Literature/Reading:

• Klod Levi-Stros, Strukturalna antropologija I, Zagreb, 1978, 41-64, 391-399
• Dragana Antonijević, Značenje srpskih bajki, Posebna izdanja Etnografskog instituta SANU, knj. 33, Beograd, 1991, 31-190
• Dragana Antonijević, Karađorđe i Miloš: mit i politika, Srpski genealoški centar, Etnološka biblioteka knj.33, Beograd, 2007, , 93-115
• Dragana Antonijević, Legende o krađi organa, Etnoantropološki problemi, n.s., god.2, sv.2, Beograd, 2007, 35-70
• Dragana Antonijević, Ogledi iz antropologije i semiotike folklora, Spski genealoški centar i Filozofski fakultet, Beograd, 2010
• Dragana Antonijević. 2009. Povodom Levi-Strosovog koncepta „motiva zaborava“. U Strukturalna antropologija danas, Beograd, str. 246 – 295.
• Seymour Chatman, Towards a Theory of Narrative. New Literary History, Vol. 6, No. 2, On Narrative and Narratives. (Winter, 1975), pp. 295-318
• Rolan Bart, Uvod u strukturalnu analizu pripovjednih tekstova, u Suvremena teorija pripovedanja, ur. Vladimir Biti, Zagreb:Globus, 1992, 47-78
• Nihad Agić, Razine i osnovne jedinice narativne strukture, NOVI IZRAZ, časopis za književnu i umjetničku kritiku, issue: 04 / 1999, on www.ceeol.com.
• Louis Hébert, Tools for Text and Image Analysis: An Introduction to Applied Semiotics. Dostupno na: http://www.revue-texto.net/Parutions/Livres-E/Hebert_AS/Hebert_Tools.html
• Dynamical Models in Semiotics/Semantics Instructor: Franson D Manjali http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/srb/cyber/manout.html
• Paul Perron, Introduction: A. J. Greimas New Literary HIistory, Vol. 20, No. 3, Greimassian Semiotics. (Spring, 1989), pp. 523-538.
• Algirdas Julien Greimas; Paul Ricoeur; Paul Perron; Frank Collins On Narrativity. New Literary History, Vol. 20, No. 3, Greimassian Semiotics. (Spring, 1989), pp. 551-562.
• Algirdas Julien Greimas; Paul Perron; Frank Collins, On Meaning. New Literary History, Vol. 20, No. 3, Greimassian Semiotics. (Spring, 1989), pp. 539-550.
• A. -J. Greimas; J. Courtès; Michael Rengstorf, The Cognitive Dimension of Narrative Discourse New Literary History, Vol. 7, No. 3, Thinking in the Arts, Sciences, and Literature. (Spring,1976), pp. 433-447.
• Donald Maddox, Veridiction, Verifiction, Verifactions: Reflections on Methodology. New Literary History, Vol. 20, No. 3, Greimassian Semiotics (Spring, 1989), pp. 661- 677
• A. J. Greimas and François Rastier Source, The Interaction of Semiotic Constraints. Yale French Studies, No. 41, Game, Play, Literature (1968), pp. 86-105
• A. J. Greimas, Narrative Grammar: Units and Levels. MLN, Vol. 86, No. 6, Comparative Literature (Dec., 1971), pp. 793-806
• Mikita Hoy, Bakhtin and Popular Culture. New Literary History, Vol. 23, No. 3, History, Politics, and Culture (Summer, 1992), pp. 765-782
• Maria Shevtsova, Dialogism in the Novel and Bakhtin`s Theory of Culture. New Literary History, Vol. 23, No. 3, History, Politics, and Culture (Summer, 1992), pp. 747-763
• Boris Gasparov and D. E. Budgen, The Narrative Text as an Act of Communication. New Literary History, Vol. 9, No. 2, Soviet Semiotics and Criticism: An Anthology (Winter, 1978), pp. 245-261
• Vladimir Prop, Morfologija bajke, Beograd, 1982, 26-71, 86-93.