Program(s): Undergraduate Courses, Summer College
*Taught Online for Summer 2021* This course presents America's major writers of short fiction in the 20th century. We will begin with Willa Cather's "Paul's Case" in 1905 and proceed to the masters of High Modernism, Hemingway, Fitzgerals, Faulkner, Porter, Welty, Ellison, Nabokov, on through the next generation, o'Connor, Pynchon, Roth, Mukherjee, Coover, Carver, and end with more recent work by Danticat, Tan and the microfictionists. Our initial effort with each text will be close reading, from which we will move out to consider questions of ethnicity, gender and psychology. Writing is also an important concern of the course. There will be two papers and an individual tutorial with each student.
Course Overview
Current Grade / Education Level
11th Grade
12th Grade
Undergrad / Grad
Program
Undergraduate Courses
Summer College
Start Date
July 12
End Date
July 30
Class Details
Primary Instructor
William Veeder
Academic Interest
Humanities (e.g., arts, philosophy)
Writing and Literature
Class Specifics
Course Code
ENGL 10703 91
Class Day(s)
Mon
Tues
Wed
Thurs
Class Duration (CST)
13:30
4:00 P.M.
Session
Session II
Course Length
3 weeks