Label: Narratology

Teachers of the Course:

Course: English / ESP (Narratology and Literature) / Translation
(English Arabic) (narrative texts)
Course Duration: 3 Hours per Week for 6 Semesters.
Objectives of the course:
This course is designed to lift up doctoral students mastery of the English
Language. The first two semesters will be an accelerated course with the
purpose of restoring Students previous basic knowledge acquired, refresh
it and put it into use. By the end of the second semester students will be
able to write and speak English without difficulties. The third semester will
introduce students to the world of literature and provide them with a
large and deep scope about western literary traditions and pioneers. The
fourth semester will be dedicated solely to Narratology. The fifth semester
will test students capabilities to engage and write about subject of their
field. The sixth semester will be dedicated to English Arabic / Arabic
English translation techniques which will be of high importance to
doctoral students who will have to deal with resources written in both
languages.
Main Tracks of the Course:
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Introducing yourself / using verb to be / forming questions
and negatives / short answers
Life matters / using verb to have / possessive adjectives/
present simple/ the time
Your Life / Object Pronouns/ simple past/ irregular and regular
verbs/ prepositions
The things you like(countable and uncountable nouns) (much
and many)
Yes We can learn / Models (can)/ wand, like, would like/
present continuous / going to
Present perfect (ever, never, yet and just) / comparatives and
superlative
Future / Future continuous / future intentions (going to / will /
shall)
Conditionals / might / if / than/
The past perfect / examples from Literary Narratives
What a wonderful world! / auxiliary verbs
Telling stories and using different tenses
Modals / obligation and permissions
Modals / Probabilities
Asking indirect questions
Assessment and Evaluation

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Reported Speech / statements, questions and commands

Spoken English : Formal Vs. Informal
Been there and done that: being precise, fillers
Narrative tenses , examples / spoken English; news and
responses
Modals and Related verbs/ modals auxiliary verbs / relative
clauses
Hypothesizing / articles and determiners
Avoiding repetition and redundancy / stressing the merit of
the words
Intensifying adverbs/ Adverb collocations / discourse markers
/ adding emphasis
Linking devices
Reconsideration and practice
Pronunciation Workshop R &W S and Z TH and T F and
V SH and voiced SH
Pronunciation Workshop I, word endings, DG and CH,H, I and
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Pronunciation Workshop OW and AE, OO,UH, EH, AU, AH, A
Pronunciation Workshop Tongue twisters, intonation, reading
some narrative passages
Assessment and Evaluation
What is Literature? Literary Genres; style and structure
Literary movements, characteristics, pioneers and their
famous works and influences 1
Literary Workshop: Marcus Tullius Cicero On Moral Duties /
Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness / David Hume and Moral
Theory
Literary movements, characteristics, pioneers and their
famous works and influences 2
Literary Workshop: Fyodor Dostoevsky The brothers
Karamazov / Franz Kafka The Metamorphosis / Irving
Babbitt Democracy and Leadership

Literary movements, characteristics, pioneers and their

famous works and influences 3
Literary Workshop: William Faulkner Absalom Absalom /
Emile Zola Germinal / Jamaica Kincaid Lucy
Critical theory and Schools of criticism : Moral criticism,
Formalism, Neo-Criticism, Neo-Aristotelian
Critical theory and Schools of criticism: Psychoanalytic
Criticism, Jungian Criticism,
Critical theory and Schools of criticism : Marxist Criticism,
Structuralism, Semiotics, Post-Structuralism, Deconstruction
Critical theory and Schools of criticism : New Historicism,
Cultural Studies and Post-Colonial Criticism
Critical theory and Schools of criticism : Eco-criticism,
Feminist Criticism, Gender, Queer Studies and Critical Race
Theory
Critical theory and Schools of criticism : Moral criticism,
Formalism, Neo-Criticism, Neo-Aristotelian

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Constructing a Glossary of main literary terms

Assessment and Evaluation
An introduction to Narratology, Main concepts
Story and story telling
Narrative and narrating
The theory of narrative
Text and authorship
The structure of narrative
The surface of narrative
Levels of narration
Realism, illusionism and metafiction
Language, the representation of speech and the stylistics of
narrative
Thoughts, feelings and the unconscious
Narrative typologies
Diachronic approaches to narrative
Gender and narrative
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A general introduction to the writing process, types of writing
Grammar and Rhetoric and how to make meaning
Adjectival steps and rhyme
Prompts of comparison and explanation
Prose rhyme and creating suspense
Mechanics of delay
Building scenes
How to make a good plot and how to end it
Structuring a narrative without a plot
Seeing through the eyes of other: point of view
Pacing in scenes and narratives
MLA style and formatting your paper.
Workshop 1: Writing a nonfiction narrative
Workshop 2: Writing a fiction narrative
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A broad introduction to translation between art or science
Translation and Narratology
Translation and collocation
Levels of language analysis
Translation techniques in literature
Rules of translation
Interpretive translation: Exercises
Faithful translation: Exercises
Semantic translation: Exercises
Adaptation: Exercises
Free translation: Exercises
Idiomatic translation: Exercises
Communicative translation: Exercises
Workshop: translating a narrative text from and into English
Assessment and Evaluation