Prose Fiction: An Introduction to the Semiotics of Narrative
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Prose Fiction: An Introduction to the Semiotics of Narrative is an open-access textbook that introduces readers of fiction to its underlying semiotic principles. The text was originally published by Ignasi Ribo for students in a 300-level literature course. As an open access text, it has been adapted into this modified version by two additional authors, Miranda Rodak and Ben Storey, to address 200-level literature students entering the "Introduction to Fiction" course at Indiana University.
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Introductory College Students (General Education)
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https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/819
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ENG-L204: Introduction to Fiction
Teaches:
Critically read and interpret fiction as well as scholarly and theoretical texts.
Summarize the main ideas or arguments of a given text.
Demonstrate critical reading skills, including paraphrasing passages, identifying and defining unfamiliar language or details, annotating as you read, and reading texts multiple times.
Analyze the way the formal literary elements function within fiction, including plot, setting, characterization, point of view, narration, style, and language.
Apply close-reading techniques to specific passages to reveal relationships in the language and details that drive the text’s meaning.
Make claims about the way a piece of fiction (including both its text and subtext) addresses issues beyond its pages (this could include how a piece of fiction speaks to a general theme and/or how it responds to a specific issue of genre, culture, history, social movement, etc.).
Write analytical arguments about fiction.
Construct clear, effective, rigorously revised arguments supporting a central claim.
Provide and analyze relevant evidence in support of claims.
Use proper protocols and conventions of academic writing, including succinct prose, correctly citing sources according to MLA guidelines, and avoiding plagiarism.
Demonstrate appropriate awareness of audience, including who your readers are and in what context they will be reading your work.
Contribute to an intellectual discussion about fiction by appropriately interpreting and respectfully responding to the ideas of others (this could mean responding to classmates and/or responding to critics or theorists).
Demonstrate a critical understanding of genre.
Recognize key generic features of the fictional text.
Construct an argument about a text’s use of generic conventions.
Summarize the main ideas or arguments of a given text.
Demonstrate critical reading skills, including paraphrasing passages, identifying and defining unfamiliar language or details, annotating as you read, and reading texts multiple times.
Analyze the way the formal literary elements function within fiction, including plot, setting, characterization, point of view, narration, style, and language.
Apply close-reading techniques to specific passages to reveal relationships in the language and details that drive the text’s meaning.
Make claims about the way a piece of fiction (including both its text and subtext) addresses issues beyond its pages (this could include how a piece of fiction speaks to a general theme and/or how it responds to a specific issue of genre, culture, history, social movement, etc.).
Write analytical arguments about fiction.
Construct clear, effective, rigorously revised arguments supporting a central claim.
Provide and analyze relevant evidence in support of claims.
Use proper protocols and conventions of academic writing, including succinct prose, correctly citing sources according to MLA guidelines, and avoiding plagiarism.
Demonstrate appropriate awareness of audience, including who your readers are and in what context they will be reading your work.
Contribute to an intellectual discussion about fiction by appropriately interpreting and respectfully responding to the ideas of others (this could mean responding to classmates and/or responding to critics or theorists).
Demonstrate a critical understanding of genre.
Recognize key generic features of the fictional text.
Construct an argument about a text’s use of generic conventions.
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