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The short story is a highly flexible, diversified and, we may add, often underrated genre. In this course we will mainly focus on the modern short story in Britain, but excursions into the 18th and 19th centuries will be included. Apart from acquainting ourselves with a large spectrum of stories (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). Please buy (and read) the following collection of stories: The Penguin Book of English Short Stories No. 1, ed. Christopher Dolley.Further material will be made available in due course. N.B.: To inform you of the availability of further course materials and to keep the size of the class manageable, it is absolutely necessary that you register by e-mail (the message should include your name and Studiengang): eveline.kilian@rz.hu-berlin.de |
