Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: MODERN SHORT STORY: TOWARDS AN ETHICS OF FICTION

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A study of great works of American and European short fiction of the 19th and 20th centuries, with special attention to the ethical dimensions that this and all fiction articulates. Selected critical essays will complement readings from Melville, Haubert, Mann, Maupassant, Gogol, Wilde, Chekhov, Gilman, Kafka, O'Connor, Carver and Garcia-Marquez. Cross-list: FREN 355.