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According to Lorrie Moore, “a short story is a love affair; a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.” In this seminar, let us explore the love affair of Americans with the short story and other forms of short fiction. We will focus on general aspects of the short story genre and the history of American short fiction by looking at a variety of canonical texts by authors such as Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Bret Harte, Sarah Orne Jewett, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Shirley Jackson and Sandra Cisneros. All the relevant texts listed on our departmental reading list will be included.
Texts:
Readings will be made available in Moodle.
Course requirements:
Regular attendance, active participation, reading and writing assignments, short oral or written assignment, graded term paper. |
