Course details

Name: ENGL - 493

Title: SEMINAR IN AMERICAN LIT--AMERICAN SHORT STORY

Section: 61

Semester: Summer - 2011

Credits: 3

Description:
The American Short Story
Note: the time is 6 PM to 9:10 PM, post-session

Course Objective: To introduce you to the themes, styles, and originality of the American short story. We will be looking at authors from the early nineteenth century to the present, at
texts considered canonical and non-canonical, to come up with a statement about the \\\\\\\"Americanness\\\\\\\" of these stories. We will explore how the history of America enters the texts of the short story (e.g. women\\\\\\\'s rights movements, Industrial Revolution, class tensions, Civil War, race issues, immigration).

Required Text:
Ann Charters, ed. The American Short Story and Its Writer (Bedford, St. Martin’s)

Last updated on 2011-03-08 By Elbert Monika (elbertm)

Schedule: Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday From 6:00 pm To 9:15 pm

Graduation requirements:

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• Any Literature (1e)
• Genre Study (Fiction)
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• Pre-1900 American (TE 1c)
• Other American (TE 1d)
• Women and Gender Studies (3c)

Teaching Faculty: Elbert Monika (elbertm)

Is course canceled: No