Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of English Studies
- Code
- BBI-ANG22-227E.11
- Title
- Reading Literary Texts: Masters of the Short Story from Irving to Barthelme
- Usual semester
- Both
- ECTS
- 3
- Language
- en
- Learning outcomes
- The course offers a colourful selection of 19th and 20th century American short stories for students interested in the field. The pieces to be discussed represent the versatility of the genre as well as the diverse compositional techniques of its authors.
- Course content
- Pieces to be discussed 1. Introduction 2. W. Irving, Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 3. E. A. Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Cask of Amontillado 4. N. Hawthorne, The Minister’s Black Veil; H. Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener 5. W. Cather, Paul’s Case, The Sculptor’s Funeral 6. K. A. Porter, The Grave, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall 7. E. Hemingway, Indian Camp, The Snows of Kilimanjaro 8. F. Sc. Fitzgerald, Babylon Revisited; W. Faulkner, A Rose for Emily 9. F. O'Connor, The River; Saul Bellow, Looking for Mr Green 11. B. Malamud, The Magic Barrel, Idiots First 11. J. Cheever, The Swimmer; S. Jackson, The Lottery 12. V. Nabokov, „That in Aleppo once...", The Return of Chorb 13. Th. Pynchon, Entropy; D. Barthelme, The Balloon
- Assessment method
- Requirements Regular attendance, thorough reading of the assigned texts, home assignements, active participation in seminar work, individual presentations, end-term essay Assignement Based on the performance of the above tasks
- Bibliography
- Recommended literature C. Brooks – R. P. Warren, Understanding Fiction, New York: Appleton-Century- Crofts, Inc. 1959. L. Hamalian – F. R. Karl, The Shape of Fiction, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978. The American Tradition in Literature, (G. Perkins, S. Bradley (eds.), New York: McGraw-Hill, 1990. The Literature of the United States, W. Blair, Th. Hornberger, R. Stewart, J. A. Miller (eds.), Illinois: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1966. The Norton Anthology of American Literature, W. H. Pritchard (ed.), New York, London: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 1985.