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The short story is a highly flexible, diversified and, we may add, often underrated genre. In this course we will follow the development of the genre from the 18th century to the present. Apart from acquainting ourselves with a large spectrum of stories (didactic, supernatural, modernist, post-modernist, colonial, post-colonial, queer, detective, experimental etc.), we will also discuss questions of genre and genre theory.
Recommended introductory reading: Barbara Korte, The Short Story in Britain (Tübingen and Basel: Francke/UTB, 2003).
Further Reading: The Penguin Book of English Short Stories No. 1, ed. Christopher Dolley.
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