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Instructors: Prof. Agnes Whitfield
Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.866.410
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | 10
Registration group: AS 410
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Contents:
Since its inception in multiple cultures in the early 19th century the short story has flourished among writers in the Anglophone World. With a focus on the evolution of the short story as narrative genre in English, this course will examine the shift from the Classic to the Modernist Short Story at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, and the influence of post-modernism and post-colonialism on the contemporary short story.
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At the same time, through the analysis of a broad spectrum of short stories from different regions and perspectives in the Anglophone World (Great Britain, the United States, Nigeria, South Africa, Canada, New Zealand, among others), students will develop an understanding of how literary and social contexts have influenced the multi-faceted development of the short story in English, and enrich their knowledge of this fascinating literary genre.
Recommended reading list:
Students will have an opportunity to read and reflect critically on a diverse sampling of short stories including works by Chinua Achebe, Anita Desai, Arthur Conan Doyle, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mavis Gallant, Nadine Gordimer, Katherine Mansfield, Alice Munro, Flannery O’Connor, M NourbeSe Philip, Rabindranath Tagore, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf.
Additional information:
The course pedagogy is learner-centred. Students will be encouraged to reflect on their own knowledge and point of view as readers and writers, to build on and enhance this knowledge through readings and discussions of short stories, and to incorporate theoretical concepts within a holistic approach to literary meaning.
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