Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of English Studies
- Code
- OT-ANG17-310.d
- Title
- Modern English and American Literature and Culture: American Short Story from Cather to Barthelme
- Usual semester
- Autumn
- Published semester
- 2025/26/2
- ECTS
- 3
- Language
- en
- Learning outcomes
- The course offers a colourful selection of modern 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. Cather, Paul's Case, The Sculptor's Funeral 3. K. A. Porter, The Grave, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall 4. E. Hemingway, Indian Camp, The Snows of Kilimanjaro 5. F. Sc. Fitzgerald, Babylon Revisited, The Rich Boy, Winter Dreams 6. W. Faulkner, A Rose for Emily, Race at Morning, 7. F. O'Connor, The River, The Life You Save May Be Your Own 8. Saul Bellow, Looking for Mr Green, Leaving the Yellow House 9. W. Nabokov, „That in Aleppo once...", The Return of Chorb 10. B. Malamud, The Magic Barrel, Idiots First 11. J. Cheever, The Swimmer; S. Jackson, The Lottery 12. Th. Pynchon, Entropy 13. D. Barthelme, The Balloon; J. Barth, Lost in the Funhouse
- 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 ont he 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.