Kurzus nemzetközi vendég- és részidős hallgatóknak
- Kar
- Bölcsészettudományi Kar
- Szervezet
- BTK Anglisztika Tanszék
- Kód
- BBI-ANG17-219E/F
- Cím
- Modernism in Brief: Short Fiction from the Turn of the 20th Century to the Present
- Tervezett félév
- Őszi
- ECTS
- 3
- Nyelv
- Oktatás célja
- This course is designed to help students further develop intelligent and responsive reading habits in English through studying a number of classic short stories and novellas written in the twentieth century. The thematically arranged sampling of texts to be read is by no means comprehensive, but can suggest some of major the directions that this most accessible genre of British and American fiction took in the period examined.
- Tantárgy tartalma
- Selected short stories and novellas from the turn of the century and the first seven decades of the twentieth century assigned by the instructor; background information, knowledge and skills (terminology, history, culture, etc.) required for a meaningful discussion of the primary texts assisted by lectures and secondary sources.
- Számonkérés és értékelés
- Exam mark offered in advance on the basis of class-to-class activity, two short take-home assignments, and surprise quizzes.
- Irodalomjegyzék
- Compulsory: Selected short fiction Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Kate Chopin, H. G. Wells, O. Henry, Jack London, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, Fay Weldon and Tibor Fischer (titles to be specified in the first seminar). Recommend: Bloom, Harold. Short Story Writers and Short Stories. Philadelphia. Chelsea House Publishers, 2005. Malcolm, Cheryl Alexander, and David Malcolm, eds. A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008. March-Russell, Paul. The Short Story: An Introduction. Edinburgh: EUP, 2009.