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Mar 17, 2026
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Hill Book [ARCHIVED HILL BOOK]
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ENG 105 - The Art of the Short Story3 Credits
Offered Fall and Spring
This writing-intensive course is focused on reading, understanding, and writing about the short story. We will read works by a diverse set of authors, including some of the genre’s best-known practitioners, from various historical periods and national traditions. Our foci will include the following: the origins and development of the form; intertextual conversations about influence and allusion; historical and political context (cf. Frank O’Connor’s contention regarding “submerged populations”); and identity and the self. Students will write critical essays, keep a reading journal, and try their hands at short creative exercises inspired by the texts we study. Authors may include Gogol, Turgenev, Chekhov, Hawthorne, James, Chopin, Gilman, Wharton, Anderson, Joyce, Woolf, Kafka, Baldwin, Munro, Ellison, O’Connor, and others.
Core Curriculum Attribute(s): Language, Arts, and Humanities
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