Prose Fiction: An Introduction to the Semiotics of Narrative
dc.contributor.author | Rodak, Miranda | |
dc.contributor.author | Storey, Ben | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-09-20T20:52:33Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-09-20T20:52:33Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2022/28201 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://iu.pressbooks.pub/prosefiction/ | |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.rights | This work is under a CC-BY-NC license. You can remix, adapt, and build upon this work as long as it is for non-commercial purposes and you give appropriate credit to the original creator. You do not have to license your derivative work on the same terms. | en |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ | en |
dc.subject | Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers | en |
dc.title | Prose Fiction: An Introduction to the Semiotics of Narrative | en |
dc.type | Book | en |
lrmi-terms.educationalLevel | Introductory College Students (General Education) | |
lrmi-terms.isBasedOnUrl | https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/819 | |
lrmi-terms.targetName | ENG-L204: Introduction to Fiction | |
lrmi-terms.teaches | Critically read and interpret fiction as well as scholarly and theoretical texts. | |
lrmi-terms.teaches | Summarize the main ideas or arguments of a given text. | |
lrmi-terms.teaches | Demonstrate critical reading skills, including paraphrasing passages, identifying and defining unfamiliar language or details, annotating as you read, and reading texts multiple times. | |
lrmi-terms.teaches | Analyze the way the formal literary elements function within fiction, including plot, setting, characterization, point of view, narration, style, and language. | |
lrmi-terms.teaches | Apply close-reading techniques to specific passages to reveal relationships in the language and details that drive the text’s meaning. | |
lrmi-terms.teaches | 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.). | |
lrmi-terms.teaches | Write analytical arguments about fiction. | |
lrmi-terms.teaches | Construct clear, effective, rigorously revised arguments supporting a central claim. | |
lrmi-terms.teaches | Provide and analyze relevant evidence in support of claims. | |
lrmi-terms.teaches | Use proper protocols and conventions of academic writing, including succinct prose, correctly citing sources according to MLA guidelines, and avoiding plagiarism. | |
lrmi-terms.teaches | Demonstrate appropriate awareness of audience, including who your readers are and in what context they will be reading your work. | |
lrmi-terms.teaches | 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). | |
lrmi-terms.teaches | Demonstrate a critical understanding of genre. | |
lrmi-terms.teaches | Recognize key generic features of the fictional text. | |
lrmi-terms.teaches | Construct an argument about a text’s use of generic conventions. |
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