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ELIT 393

Essentials of Short Fiction

Short fiction is treated here as a distinct literary form with its own history, tracing how the genre evolved from parables and tales into the modern story through writers like Poe, Chekhov, Joyce, Borges, Munro, and Lahiri. You'll do close reading across roughly a dozen weeks of stories, apply literary theory to them, and produce a mix of analytical work (short essay, midterm essay, paper proposal, take-home final) alongside creative responses like alternative endings or your own stories. As a 300-level ELIT elective it assumes you're already comfortable with literary analysis, and it pairs well with the novel and poetry courses by giving you a compact form where structure, voice, and theme are visible at a glance.

Credit3ECTS5FacultyFaculty of Humanities and LettersBölümEnglish Language and Literature

Değerlendirme 100% — 6 adım

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In-class participation Classroom participation and attendance 15%
Quiz In-class Completion Exercises 10%
Short essay Short Story Anthology Assignment 15%
Midterm:Essay/written Midterm essay (take home with prompt provided) 25%
Paper Proposal Proposal and Annotated Bibliography 10%
Final:Take-home Final essay (take home with prompt provided) 25%

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Coursepack

Haftalık müfredat 14 hafta

Hafta 1
From Parable to the Tale: Jataka Tales, The Arabian Nights, The Parable of the Prodigal Son; Walter Benjamin "The Storyteller"
Hafta 2
From Tale to Short Story: The Invention of the Modern Short Story; Washington Irving, "Rip Van Winkle," "The Legend of the Sleeping Hollow;" Edgar Allan Poe, "The Philosophy of Composition," "The Tell-Tale Heart"
Hafta 3
Nikolai Gogol, "The Overcoat"
Hafta 4
Herman Melville, "Bartleby, the Scrivener"
Hafta 5
Guy de Maupassant, "The Moonlight;" Anton Chekhov, "Home;" Rabindranath Tagore, "The Postmaster"
Hafta 6
The Feminist Short Story - Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper”; Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour”; Zora Neale Hurston, “Sweat”
Hafta 7
The Modernist Short Story - James Joyce, “Araby”; Katherine Mansfield, “Revelations”; Saadat Hasan Manto, “Why I Write?”
Hafta 8
Beyond Epiphany: The Modernist Short Story Falls Apart - Jorge Luis Borges, “The Garden of Forking Paths”; Isaac Asimov, “Nightfall”; Samuel Beckett, “First Love”
Hafta 9
The Contemporary Short Story - Dorothy Parker, “I Live On Your Visits”; Muriel Spark, “The House of the Famous Poet”; Frank O’Connor, “The Lonely Voice”
Hafta 10
Mavis Gallant, “Voices Lost in the Snow”; Raymond Carver, “Night School”; “The Short Story Interview: Professor Charles E. May”
Hafta 11
Margaret Atwood, “Death by Landscape”; Alice Munro, “What Is Remembered”; Deborah Treisman, editor’s “Introduction” to A Century of Fiction in The New Yorker, 1925-2025
Hafta 12
Jhumpa Lahiri, "The Interpreter of Maladies"
Hafta 13
Madeleine Thien, “Simple Recipes”; Ted Chiang, “The Great Silence”
Hafta 14
Course recap

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Use of Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT is totally prohibited in this course. You cannot use such tools for research, writing, editing, or proofreading, that is, for any stage of working on your assessments. You must complete all the writing assignments entirely on your own because one of the main goals of this course is to help you develop those reading and writing skills. In this course, using AI to work on the writing assignments will constitute plagiarism.

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