Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MODERN AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN SHORT FICTION ***** Discussion course with emphasis on close reading as we talk about alienation and the modern period, about death, violence, and sexuality, and about the "ethics" of fiction generally. Selected critical essays will complement readings from Melville, Flaubert, Mann, Maupassant, Gogol, Chekhov, Gilman, Kafka, O'Connor, Carver, and Garcia-Marquez. ***** Also offered as ENGL 355. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Harter.