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DRPS : Course Catalogue : School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures : English Literature

Postgraduate Course: The Short Story in America (ENLI11033)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Literatures, Languages and Cultures CollegeCollege of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryTaking as a basis for each week's seminar some works of a major short story writer or writers, this corse will consider, cumulatively, the 'Americanness' of American short stories; to what extent they may legitimately (as has frequently been claimed) be regarded as the quintessential American form of literary expression; structure and form; specific American theories of the short story; literary production and the marketplace; short stories and literary journals; the short story collection or cycle; anthologising short stories; framed narratives. The range of reading should also provide a preliminary map through American writing for those unfamiliar with the literature.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs Essential course texts.
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
Familiarity with a wide range of American short stories written between 1800 and 2000; working knowledge of short story theories and appropriate deployment of these in analysis of texts discussed on the course; ability to relate texts to conditions of literary production, the marketplace and journalistic culture. An awareness of broad trends and characteristics of American literary culture in the nineteenth and twentieth century. Enhanced appreciation of and capacity to articulate the technical, formal and aesthetic qualities of short stories. The course will develop relations with theoretical and textual material covered in other aspects of the Masters programme.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
Additional Class Delivery Information 1 hour(s) per week for 10 week(s).
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserProf Susan Manning
Tel: (0131 6)50 4671
Email: Susan.Manning@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMrs Anne Mason
Tel: (0131 6)50 3618
Email: Anne.Mason@ed.ac.uk
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