American Short Story 3301-ZLAZS011
The course concentrates on the historical development of the American short story. Among the issues discussed during the course there are:
- early short-story forms (W. Irving, N. Hawthorne, E.A. Poe),
- naturalism (M. Twain, S. Crane, J. London, H. James),
- modernism (S. Anderson, F.S. Fitzgerald, W. Faulkner, E. Hemingway),
- ethnic short stories (P. Roth, R. Ellison, B. Malamud, A. Tan),
- realism (J. Cheever, F. O'Connor, H. Selby, J. Kerouac)
- postmodernism and science-fiction short stories (T. Pynchon, P.K. Dick, G.R.R. Martin)
Type of course
Learning outcomes
Knowledge of the aesthetics of the short-story genre and of its history in the American context.
Bibliography
Norton Anthology of American Literature, vols 1 i 2.
Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Fiction.
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