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English 156 - Fall, 2015
The Short Story
Class Information
Instructor:
Li, Yiyun
CRN:
52423
Time:
MWF 1:10-2:00
Location:
126 Wellman
Description
The short story is a form that has been repeatedly announced dead or on the verge of dying in recent years, but the stories of Chekhov and Flannery O’Connor will continue nourishing generations of fiction writers, and Alice Munro and William Trevor, two contemporary short story masters, will continue moving their readers with the beauty of brevity. “We should always remember that the work of art is invariably the creation of a new world,” said Nabokov. The goal of this course to study the format and its development in the past century, and to get as close as we can to the writers’ minds to understand how they choose this format to create a new world within limited space.
Grading
50% reading response and class participation
25% mid-term paper
25% final
Texts
The Story and Its Writer Compact: An Introduction to Short Fiction
, Ann Charters