ENGL 4610

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ENGL 4610
The American Short Story

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2017-2018.

The course begins with the fiction of that wild man Poe, whose work has been energizing American art for almost two centuries. Then it examines the realisms, super-realisms, fantasies, and mythologies in the short fiction of later writers who might include Mark Twain, Charles Waddell Chestnutt, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Vladimir Nabokov, Ernest Hemingway, Flannery O'Connor, Donald Barthelme, Denis Johnson, Raymond Carver, Ursula K. Le Guin, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, Gish Jen, Julie Schumacher, Tobias Wolff, Junot Díaz, Hannah Tinti, Z. Z. Packer, and Martin Pousson. The stories will be juxtaposed in ways that will allow us to read contemporary work in the context of the obsessions that energized the work of the earlier writers, those who made the short story form one of the most radical of American art forms.

When Offered Spring.

Distribution Category (LA-AS)

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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15591 ENGL 4610   SEM 101

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