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Instructors: Karin Ikas
Event type:
Lecture
Displayed in timetable as:
06.008.0030
Hours per week:
2
Credits:
3,0
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | -
Requirements / organisational issues:
Lecturer: PD Dr. Karin Ikas
Contents:
This lecture is designed to provide a critical overview of the history and the development of the British short story in the 19th and 20th centuries. Locating the British short story within its original and literary contexts, it maps the main strands, considers the conventions of the genre and the aesthetic schemas, and it studies the major figures and key themes that shaped British short stories over the years. A major focus will be on British writer. Nonetheless, attention will also be paid to the influence of writers from other nations and to those who are not strictly British but have their roots in Ireland (e.g. James Joyce), America (e.g. Henry James) or are (post)colonial subjects such as Katherine Mansfield, Olive Senior, or Alice Munroe, or, more recently, Black British and Asian British.
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