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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, we will explore this “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 texts by authors such as Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Sarah Orne Jewett, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, E. Pauline Tekahionwake Johnson, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Alice Walker, Jamaica Kincaid, Sandra Cisneros, and Junot Diaz. All the relevant texts listed on our departmental reading list will be included. Readings will be made available in Moodle. |
