WL ARTS 216

Analyzing Narrative and Oral Performance

World Arts and Cultures · 5 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

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Designed for graduate students. Exploration of ways of documenting individual narrators and interpreting their styles and repertoires; how narrators conceptualize and perform narrative discourse, impact of audience and situated event on both narrating and story, how experiences and values are communicated through narrating, modes of representing oral narrating, and politics of narrative and oral performance.

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