Syllabus/achievement requirements

Syllabus

Anthology:

  • NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE, shorter seventh edition.
  • NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT FICTION, shorter sixth edition.

Theory of the Short Story:

  • Charles E. May, The New Short Story Theories (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1994)

Short stories marked by an * are contained in a compendium (Akademika).

British Short Stories:

  • James Joyce, "Dubliners" (1914)
  • Salman Rushdie, “The Prophet’s Hair”
  • Muriel Spark, “The House of the Famous Poet” *
  • Virginia Woolf, “Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street”*
  • D.H. Lawrence, “Odour of Chrysanthemums”
  • Beryl Bainbridge, “Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie”*
  • Hanif Kureishi, “My Son the Fanatic”*
  • Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, “Rose Petals”*

American Short Stories:

  • Edgar Allan Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher”
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown”
  • Henry James, “The Real Thing”
  • Mark Twain, “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”
  • William Faulkner, “Barn Burning”
  • Ernest Hemingway, “A Very Short Story” and “Soldier’s Home”*
  • Eudora Welty, “Petrified Man”
  • Shirley Jackson, “The Lottery”
  • Annie Proulx: "Brokeback Mountain"

Other Short Stories:

  • Chinua Achebe, “Civil Peace”*
  • Khushwant Singh, “Karma”*
  • R.K. Narayan, “A Horse and Two Goats”*
  • Anita Desai, “Games at Twilight”*
  • Peter Carey, “The Fat Man in History”*
  • Katherine Mansfield, “The Daughters of the Late Colonel”
  • V.S. Naipaul, “My Aunt Gold Teeth”*

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