讲座标题和所涉及的相关文本:


1. Religious, Allegorical, Romantic, Gothic, and Realistic: Hybrid Origin or Short Narrative (from the Book of Job; Cain and Abel; to Decameron; the story of the Wife of Bath, a True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal by Daniel Defoe)

2. The Gothic Romance: Edgar Allen Poe and The Single Effect of the Short story: (A Tell-Tale Heart; Review of Twice-Told Tales; the Black Cat) 

3. Reading for the Plot: Unity of the Story: (the Nightingale and the Rose; Bartelby the Scrivener)

4. Reading for the Characters: Short Stories as Sketches ( Mark Twain, Turgenev A Sportsmans Sketches)

5. Kafka and The Allegorical Power of the Short Story (In the Penal Colony, A Report to an Academy, Judgement)

6. Modernist Turn I: The Ambiguous Speech (Hills like White Elephants; Rope)

7. Modernist Turn II: Emotions, Cognitions and Fleeting Perceptions (the Art of Fiction by Henry James; Psychology; A Pair of Silk Stockings; Eveline)

8. The Mythic Brevity: Killers; The Yellow Woman; the Snake (Steinbeck); Atlas (Margaret Atwood)

9. Feminine experience and the short fictional form: from Katherine Mansfield, Kate Chopin, to Leslie Marmon Silko and Alice Munro)


此9个讲座将于学期前13周左右结束,课程进入文本研讨阶段,预计持续4周时间,在此四周内,每位选课学生将根据自己所选择的短篇小说文本,运用课堂上所学到的文本分析工具,对作品进行细致深入的文本分析,其余同学则被要求充当合格听众,在认真记录的基础上概括他人主要观点,并对此作出批判性点评,每个讨论预计为30分钟。


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