| 1 | Introduction: Orality and Literacy | |
| 2 | Epic Conventions | Quiz 1
Reader response 1 |
| 3 | Stories within Stories: The Social Functions of Storytelling | |
| 4 | Myths of Self and Society: Fates and Fatalism | |
| 5 | Conflict Resolution | |
| 6 | Genre and Ideology I: The Tragic Arc | Quiz 2 |
| 7 | Approaches to History: Methods and Materials | Reader response 2 |
| 8 | Genre and Ideology II: The Tragic View of History | |
| 9 | Formalist Approaches to Narrative | |
| 10 | Character Functions in Adventure Narratives | Reader response 3 |
| 11 | Narrative Perspective and the Categories of Time and Space | |
| 12 | Perspective and the Novelty of the Novel | Reader response 4 |
| 13 | Mediation and the Triangulated Subject | |
| 14 | Character Development and the Accumulation of Experience | |
| 15 | Realism, Sentiment, and the Epistolary Novel | Reader response 5 |
| 16 | Experience, Experiments, and Enlightenment Epistemology | |
| 17 | The Enlightened Subject | |
| 18 | Novels of Manners, Novels of Morals: The Bildungsroman | |
| 19 | Psychology in Gothic Horror and Detective Fiction | |
| 20 | Psychoanalytic Archetypes and Fairy-Tales | |
| 21 | Film Screening I | First draft of final paper due |
| 22 | Surrealism and the Subject of Psychoanalysis | |
| 23 | Film Screening II | |
| 24 | Modernist Ideology: Capitalist Alienation and Class Consciousness | |
| 25 | Film Screening III | |
| 26 | Late Capitalism, Pastiche, and Post-Modernism | Final paper due |
| 27 | Narrative and New Media | |