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Institut für Amerikastudien Institut für Amerikastudien

Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Christian Quendler Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Christian Quendler, +43 512 507 41605

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Great American Short Stories

PS 2

3,5

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keine Angabe

Englisch

This course offers a historical survey of the development of the American short story in the 19th and 20th centuries and an introduction to basic concepts of literary and narrative analysis. We will read short stories by Charles Brockden Brown, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Henry James, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, John Barth, and Thomas Pynchon.

Active participation, presentation, research paper

Students must have passed the "Introduction to American Literature and Culture" to attend this course. Credit for PS American Literature.
Beginn: 10.3.2009