Lehrende/r: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Oliver Scheiding
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar
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Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 30
Anmeldegruppe: AS 522
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Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches: The modern American short story is a coming together of the enduring narrative practice of compression and concision in American literature, presently culminating in a digital culture in which brevity rules. This graduate seminar will discuss the expansion of the genre focusing on the changing parameters of narrative design and fiction, new forms of story cycles and serialization, and short prose experiments (both off-line and on-line). It offers students a compact introduction to the multifaceted and multiethnic genre with a special emphasis on current formal developments due to the rise of digital media. As such, the course will discuss new narrative trends like microfiction, twitterature, nanofiction, crowd-sourced narratives, and e-publishing. In addition, we will also devote our attention to issues such as publishing the short story (i.e. magazines and digital media), forms of the short story (i.e. SF and horror stories), placing the short story (i.e. regionalism, migration, and environment), and identity and the short story (gender, diaspora, and the queer short story). A reader will be posted on ILIAS at the beginning of the term. Suggested Reading: Kasia Boddy. The American Short Story since the 1950. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010.
