Postgraduate Course: The Short Story in America (ENLI11033)

Course Outline
School	School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures	College	College of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)	Availability	Available to all students
SCQF Credits	20	ECTS Credits	10
Summary	Taking 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.
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Pre-requisites	None

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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.