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”*