本课程将探讨各类传媒如何形塑西方事的幻想与感知的各层面，并经由挑选、安排和处理事的素材以获得理解的经验。按照时间的顺序来检视主流和非主流的叙事类型，自荷马史诗、小说，并跨越媒体至现场表演、电影以及电动游戏等，我们透过各种己建立的事方法及最新技术，来检验新的意识形态及心理分析的可能性。课程重点将放在事手法的各类传统、文学及文化议题、传媒的角色、传播的形式、选择文本的艺术重要性以及植基于特定时间、地点和技术的人类学制品的方法和假定的特性。研读的作家包括荷马、索夫克里斯（Sophocles）、希罗多德（Herodotus）、基督福音、玛丽亚．德．法兰丝（Marie de France）、塞凡提斯（Cervantes）、拉克罗（La Clos）、波（Poe）、朗古（Lang）、考克多（Cocteau）、迪士尼．波西亚（Disney-Pixar）、和模拟电玩艺术（Maxis-Electronic Arts）、以及阅读普洛普（Propp）、巴赫金（Bakhtin）、吉拉德（Girard）、佛洛依德以及马克斯。
This class will investigate the ways in which the formal aspects of Western storytelling in various media have shaped both fantasies and perceptions, making certain understandings of experience possible through the selection, arrangement, and processing of narrative material. Surveying the field chronologically across the major narrative genres and sub-genres from Homeric epic through the novel and across media to include live performance, film, and video games, we will be examining the ways in which new ideologies and psychological insights become available through the development of various narrative techniques and new technologies. Emphasis will be placed on the generic conventions of story-telling as well as on literary and cultural issues, the role of media and modes of transmission, the artistic significance of the chosen texts and their identity as anthropological artifacts whose conventions and assumptions are rooted in particular times, places, and technologies. Authors will include: Homer, Sophocles, Herodotus, Christian evangelists, Marie de France, Cervantes, La Clos, Poe, Lang, Cocteau, Disney-Pixar, and Maxis-Electronic Arts, with theoretical readings in Propp, Bakhtin, Girard, Freud, and Marx.
