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The nineteenth century was known as the age of novels "big, loose baggy monsters" that could also serve as doorstops or injure small children when dropped. With the opening of the twentieth century and the rise of the movement known as modernism, there was a turn toward the concise, the streamlined, the understated, and the short story became both popular and a site for stylistic experimentation. Why was this? In this course we will read a variety of modernist short stories to explore these transformations of literary style and how they were reactions to the exhilarating, yet troubling, new developments of modernization, including the shock of trench warfare, global travel, navigating the metropolis, reinventions of gender and family relations, new developments in work and leisure, and the explosion of print culture in magazines both big and little. In this class we read and respond to short stories by well-known writers from a variety of English-speaking countries, including some of the following: Mansfield, Rhys, Woolf, Joyce, Santos, Hughes, Ellison, Hemingway, Porter, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and Parker. Required Texts: Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time Scribner's Jean Toomer, Cane W. W. Norton James Joyce, Dubliners W. W. Norton Instructor(s): Susie Keller Time(s): Tuesday and Thursday, 2:00 pm-3:15 pm Place(s): Bldg. 494, Rm. 143 << Back |
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