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Instructors: Prof. Hugh Sheehy
Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.866.512
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Registration group: AS 512
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Contents:
This is an in-depth study of the development of the American short story as an indigenous art form with a distinct history of innovation. Authors will include Irving, Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, Twain, Crane, Cather, Hemingway, Faulkner, Toomer, Singer, Roth, Updike, Barthelme, Vonnegut, Oates, Wallace, Saunders, Bender, and others. Particular attention will be given to what Wayne Booth calls the “rhetoric of fiction,” or the shifting systems of “artificial devices” American writers have used to produce different aesthetic effects. A series of craft analyses and short narrative compositions will lead to final project combining fiction-writing and craft analysis.
Recommended reading list:
Baxter, Charles. BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE
Booth, Wayne. THE RHETORIC OF FICTION
Gardner, John. THE ART OF FICTION
Selected short stories
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