Gwybodaeth am Fodiwlau

Module Identifier
WRM2020
Module Title
The Short Story: Regional Perspectives, Global Voices
Academic Year
2026/2027
Co-ordinator
Mr Jowhor Ile
Semester
Semester 1
Other Staff
 

Course Delivery

 

Assessment

Assessment Type Assessment length / details Proportion
Semester Assessment Short Stories: Regional Perspectives, Global Voices  Comprises a 3,500 word creative submission. It can be a single short story or a collection of flash fiction or fragments. And a 1,500 word critical commentary. 5000 Words  100%
Supplementary Assessment Short Stories: Regional Perspectives, Global Voices  Comprises a 3,500 word creative submission. It can be a single short story or a collection of flash fiction or fragments. And a 1,500 word critical commentary. 5000 Words  100%

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this module students should be able to:

Demonstrate a broad understanding of the historical development of the short story.

Describe and evaluate a variety the formal and thematic aspects in the evolution of the short strory.

Reflect on their patterns and improve their work in response to criticism.

Brief description

The module will consist of five 2-hour seminars and five two-hour workshops. In the seminars the students will be introduced to origins and development of the short story. For the workshop, students will write stories from different traditions, which will be discussed and subsequently revised for the assignment.

Estimated Student Workload
20 hours contact time
60 hours preparation for seminars and workshops
100 hours preparation of portfolios

Aims

It enables participants to engage in a sustained study of the development of the short story, and to extend their range as practitioners of the form.

Content

Week

1. Origins: From Folk-Tale to Art-Tale: Folktales from different traditions, The Book of Jonah

2. The Well-Made Short Story: North America (O. Henry, Hemingway, James Baldwin, Flannery O’Connor, Denis Johnson, Toni Morrison)

3. The Short Story in Britain (Economies of Scale), focus on England and Wales: Dickens, Roald Dahl, Agatha Christie, Ian McEwan, Helen Oyeyemi, Adam Merek

4. The Short Story and Modernism: Mansfield and the post-colonial story (New Zealand); Joyce, Maeve Brennan (Ireland)

5 Between the Lines (Dissidence and the Short Story): focus on Russia and Eastern Europe: Nikolai Gogol

6. Identity and the Short Story: South America (Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar, Clarice Lispector

7.Centres and Margins: Achebe, Bessie Head, Nardine Gordimer, Ama Ata Aidoo, Igoni Barret, Ben Okri, Petina Gappah, Adichie

8 West and East Asia: Focus on stories from the Indian Sub-continent, Korea, Japan

9. The Rise the Welsh short Story: Rhys Davis, Dylan Thomas, Ron Berry

10. Fragments: Global Conscience

Module Skills

Skills Type Skills details
Adaptability and resilience Apply their knowledge and understanding of techniques of the short story in their writing.
Co-ordinating with others Workshop with peers offers opportunity to collaboration.
Creative Problem Solving Demonstrate confident critical reflection on the genres and writing practices covered on the module.
Critical and analytical thinking Make constructive critical responses to their own and other students’ writing, and engage in appropriate revisions of their own work.
Digital capability Through Blackboard and word processing skills
Subject Specific Skills Demonstrate a mature knowledge of formal techniques for writing a short story

Notes

This module is at CQFW Level 7