American Short Story

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Course ID:	3301-ZLAZS011
Erasmus code / ISCED:	09.203 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0231) Language acquisition The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title:	American Short Story
Name in Polish:	Amerykańskie opowiadanie: Przegląd gatunku
Organizational unit:	Institute of English Studies
Course groups:
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	English
Type of course:	obligatory courses
Short description:	The course concentrates on the historical development of the American short story. Among the issues discussed during the course there are: early short-story forms, short story and regional writing, short-story cycle, ethnic short stories, postmodern short stories, science-fiction short stories.
Full description:	The course concentrates on the historical development of the American short story. Among the issues discussed during the course there are: - early short-story forms (W. Irving, N. Hawthorne, E.A. Poe), - naturalism (M. Twain, S. Crane, J. London, H. James), - modernism (S. Anderson, F.S. Fitzgerald, W. Faulkner, E. Hemingway), - ethnic short stories (P. Roth, R. Ellison, B. Malamud, A. Tan), - realism (J. Cheever, F. O'Connor, H. Selby, J. Kerouac) - postmodernism and science-fiction short stories (T. Pynchon, P.K. Dick, G.R.R. Martin)
Bibliography:	Norton Anthology of American Literature, vols 1 i 2. Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Fiction.
Learning outcomes:	Knowledge of the aesthetics of the short-story genre and of its history in the American context.

This course is not currently offered.

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