- Summer 2019
Syllabus Description:
Short Fiction and our Global Cultural Mosaic
The primary objective of this course is to establish an interactive classroom community to look hard at the way we read stories and their impact on the lives of readers, writers and their societies.
We will exchange in conversation and in writing our experiences of stories that have shaped the short story, an art form dating back to ancient times, yet as pervasive and influential in the lives and times of its readers over many centuries as cinema, animation, computer games and social media are in our own.
Full syllabus lives here: ENGL242 Course SyllabusSummer2019.docx
We will read the following:
Lydia Davis, “Five Stories;”
Anton Chekhov, “The Lady with the Pet Dog”
James Joyce, “The Dead;”
Drago, Jančar,“Joyce’s Pupil;”
Octavia Butler, “Speech Sounds,”
Ivo Andrić, “Letter from 1920;”
Muharem Bazdulj, “Another Letter;”
Phillip Roth, “The Conversion of the Jews,”
Alice Munro, “The View from Castle Rock;”
Haruki Murakami, "Yesterday,"
Ted Chiang, “The Story of Your Life”
Ursula Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelos”