| CODE | ENG1176 | ||||||
| TITLE | The Short Story | ||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 2 | ||||||
| DEPARTMENT | English | ||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The study-unit considers aspects of the short story as a genre and reviews the historical development of the short story, providing also some points of comparison with the tradition of short fiction in other literatures. There will be opportunities during the study-unit for seminar discussion of selected examples of the English short story. Students will then be allowed to write their assignment on the work of one particular exponent of the short story, on formal aspects of the genre, on one particular short story and the critical responses it has elicited, or on issues involving comparatism which might be raised by the short story form and its development. Authors discussed during the study-unit may include (but are not limited to) Charles Dickens, Maupassant, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, ‘Saki’, Elizabeth Bowen, Katherine Mansfield, V. S. Pritchett, William Trevor, and Raymond Carver. Reading List: A detailed reading list will be provided at the start of the study-unit, but the following provide useful introductions: Allen, Walter, The Short Story in English (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981) May, Charles E., The Short Story: The Reality of Artifice (New York and London: Routledge, 2002) Reid, Ian, The Short Story (London: Methuen, 1977) |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Norbert Bugeja |
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