Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of English Studies
- Code
- BBI-ANG22-227E.F
- Title
- Reading literary texts: Modernism in Brief: Short Fiction from the Turn of the 20th Century to the Present
- Usual semester
- Both
- ECTS
- 3
- Language
- Learning outcomes
- This course is designed to help students further develop intelligent and responsive reading habits in English through studying a number of classic short stories 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.
- Course content
- 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.
- Assessment method
- Practical mark on the basis of class-to-class activity, two short take-home assignments, and surprise quizzes.
- Bibliography
- 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.