Course details
Name: ENGL - 111
Title: THE SHORT STORY
Section: 05
Semester: Fall - 2022
Credits: 3
Description:
This course will introduce the mode of fiction through the most common and most diverse literary form in our culture: the short story. The sub-text of the course is the question: Why are we so attracted to stories which we know, by definition, are not "true"? What do we learn from short stories, and in what ways can they be "true"? What are the structural elements that make good stories interesting? We will read stories from multiple time periods and cultures, from fairy tales to last week's New Yorker, from Native American tales to Hawthorne to Poe to Ray Bradbury to Jorge Luis Borges to Rosario Castellanos to Alice Munro to Raymond Carver to Toni Morrison to Roberto Bolano to Flannery O'Connor and Hemingway--to name a few.
Course requirements: 2 discussion papers and a final essay exam.
This elective satisfies the C2 Literature Gen Ed requirement.
Schedule: Tuesday,Friday From 9:45 am To 11:00 am
Graduation requirements:
- International Issues (3a)
- Introduction to Literature (110-114)
Teaching Faculty: Gingerich Willard (gingerichw)
Is course canceled: No