FICTION II-THE SHORT FORM.

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Pre-requisites: MFA or English MA students or permission of instructor. A study of the short form, considering roots, periods, and stylistic approaches. Works to be considered might include texts by Chekhov, Tolstoy, Kafka, Mansfield, Joyce, Porter, Toomer, Murakami, Carver, Munro, Dubus, Lahiri, Dybek, and Davis, among others. Through a study of style, structure, and historical development, the course will concern itself with the many shapes the short form takes, has taken, or might take, while also examining elements that link various examples of the form.