Focalization Course
Master focalization for sharper literary reading and teaching. This course equips Humanities professionals to analyse narrative voice, unreliable narrators, and point of view, transforming close reading into clear, persuasive interpretation. It covers narrative perspectives from internal, external, and omniscient viewpoints to free indirect style and interior monologue, with practices in close reading, annotation, mapping information access, spotting unreliable signals, using scholarly terminology, designing comparative activities, and building concise lesson plans and teaching dossiers.

4 to 360 hours flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This Focalization Course provides an introduction to narrative perspective, covering internal, external, and omniscient viewpoints, free indirect style, and interior monologue. Participants practise close reading, annotation, and mapping information access, learn to identify unreliable signals, apply accurate scholarly terminology, design comparative activities, and develop clear, concise lesson plans and teaching dossiers for confident text-based analysis.
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Develop skills
- Analyse focalization types: swiftly distinguish internal, external, and zero views.
- Detect unreliable narrators: identify linguistic cues, gaps, and biased reporting promptly.
- Map perspective shifts: track who sees, knows, and withholds story information.
- Design focused lessons: create 60-minute focalization classes with ready prompts.
- Apply focalization in research: employ precise terms, editions, and ethical citation.
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