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Comparative Literature and Civilization 295F/G The Modern Short Story

The course will concentrate on selected masterpieces of the 19th- and 20th-century short fiction. The genre will be illustrated in such authors as Kleist, Chekhov, Conrad, Mansfield, Hemingway, Cortázar, and will be examined as a relatively stable genre within the framework of changing literary trends, including Romanticism, Realism, Modernism.

Prerequisite: Comparative Literature and Civilization 020 or permission of the Department.
3 lecture hours, half course.


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