EL 243 - American Short Story

Institution:

Saint Vincent College

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Description:

This intermediate-level survey course covers the form and evolution of the short story and short story collection as invented and mastered by American authors from Poe to Updike. Symbolism, Nationalism, Realism, Naturalism, Primitivism, and Modernism provide contexts for ways of understanding writers such as Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Crane, Cather, Hemingway, Anderson, Steinbeck, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Bierce, Ellison, and Updike. The typical class includes lecture and discussion. Students take three quizzes, a midterm, and a final, and participate in group and class discussion. Three credits.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.stvincent.edu

Phone Number:

(724) 539-9761

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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