Module Identifier | EN34520 | ||
Module Title | THE SHORT STORY (AMERICAN) | ||
Academic Year | 2001/2002 | ||
Co-ordinator | Dr Peter Barry | ||
Semester | Semester 2 | ||
Other staff | Mrs Carol Marshall | ||
Course delivery | Seminar | 20 Hours (10 x 2 hrs) | |
Assessment | Continuous assessment | 2 essays (2,500 words each) | 100% |
Resit assessment | Resubmit any failed elements and/or make good any missing elements. |
Programme
The American Short Story and its Antecedents
1. Types and Definitions of the Short Story: Myths, Legends, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Character Sketches, Parables, Exempla
2. Washington Irving, The Sketchbook of Washington Irving (World's Classics)
The American Short Story, Nineteenth Century
3. Edgar Allan Poe, Selected Tales ed. Julian Symons (World's Classics)
4. Lecture on the Short Story Genre and Narratological approaches to short fiction.
5. Henry James, Daisy Miller and Other Stories, ed. Jean Gooder (World's Classics)
6. Four Stories by American Women: Rebecca Harding Davis, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sarah Orme Jewett, Edith Wharton (Penguin)
The American Short Story, Twentieth Century
7. Hemingway, The First Forty Nine Stories (Arrow)
8. Cont.
9. Richard Ford, ed., The Granta Book of the American Short Story (1997)
10. Cont.