American Short Story

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This course covers the rise of this genre form from the early Nineteenth Century beginning with Poe and continues through the realistic/naturalistic periods up through modernist and post-modernist movement through the present. Some of the authors studied include Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Crane, Twain, Cather, McCullers, Welty, O'Connor, Hemingway, Faulkner, Roth, Updike, O'Brien, Lahiri.