WL ARTS 132
Narrative and Oral Performance
Description: Lecture, four hours. Survey of concepts of story as text versus narrating as oral performance, studies of individual narrators, how stories are composed in performance, interaction of narrator and audience, how place and experience become embodied in narratives, modes of representing oral narrating, and politics of stories and oral performance. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0