This course explores short stories of different nations, times, and forms from American, British and world literatures. It aims to apply literary theories to the texts of the short stories. It also aims to consider the cultural contexts and diversity of experiences presented in the texts that portray different times, places, and people from distinct social classes. Students will read, analyse, discuss the selected works of short fiction, and write analytically and creatively. The course enables students to make interpretations of the short stories through intensive study of the texts, to find connections between the short stories, to provide alternative endings to the short stories, and to write their own stories.
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Students must have an aggregate of 50% from all the assessments. Attendance policy: More than 8 hours of absence will make you ineligible for taking the final assessment.
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.
From Parable to the Tale: Jataka Tales, The Arabian Nights, The Parable of the Prodigal Son; Walter Benjamin "The Storyteller" 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" Nikolai Gogol, "The Overcoat" Herman Melville, "Bartleby, the Scrivener" Guy de Maupassant, "The Moonlight;" Anton Chekhov, "Home;" Rabindranath Tagore, "The Postmaster" The Feminist Short Story - Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper”; Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour”; Zora Neale Hurston, “Sweat” The Modernist Short Story - James Joyce, “Araby”; Katherine Mansfield, “Revelations”; Saadat Hasan Manto, “Why I Write?” Beyond Epiphany: The Modernist Short Story Falls Apart - Jorge Luis Borges, “The Garden of Forking Paths”; Isaac Asimov, “Nightfall”; Samuel Beckett, “First Love” 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” Mavis Gallant, “Voices Lost in the Snow”; Raymond Carver, “Night School”; “The Short Story Interview: Professor Charles E. May” 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 Jhumpa Lahiri, "The Interpreter of Maladies" Madeleine Thien, “Simple Recipes”; Ted Chiang, “The Great Silence” Course recap ECTS - Workload Table: Activities Number Hours Workload Preparation for Final 1 8 8 Course hours 14 3 42 Preparation for Midterm 1 8 8 Individual or group work 14 6,2 86.8 Presentation (including preparation) 1 5,2 5.2 Total Workload: 150 Total Workload / 30: 150 / 30 5 ECTS Credits of the Course: 5 Type of Course: Lecture - Seminar (where students are presenters) - Independent Study Course Material: Lecture Notes - LMS (Moodle, etc) - Slides - Multimedia Teaching Methods: Assignment - Lecturing - Presentations - Discussion - Close reading