Course details

Name: ENGL - 111

Title: THE SHORT STORY

Section: 09

Semester: Fall - 2024

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 characterize nearly all fictional narrative? What makes 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 Stephen Crane to Franz Kafka to Ursula Le Guin to Jorge Luis Borges to James Baldwin to Gabriel Garcia Marquez to Alice Munro to Raymond Carver to Bobbie Ann Mason to Flannery O'Connor, Juno Diaz and Hemingway--to name a few, and we will read some you suggest for the class.
In short, we will learn to read like a writer.
Students complete two discussion papers and a final exam.
This elective satisfies the C2 Literature Gen Ed requirement and the Introduction to Literature requirement.

Last updated on 2024-04-03 By Lykidis Alexios (lykidisa)

Schedule: Monday,Thursday From 11:15 am To 12:30 pm

Graduation requirements:

• Introduction to Literature (110-114)

Teaching Faculty: Gingerich Willard (gingerichw)

Is course canceled: No