American Short Story
General data
Course ID: | 3301-ZLAZS011 |
Erasmus code / ISCED: |
09.203
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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)
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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. |
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