32201
Advanced Seminar
The Long and Short of It: Related Prose Forms in 20th Century American Fiction
Stefan Iacob
Comments
Short stories are sometimes revised into longer texts. This can happen for various reasons, ranging from aesthetic refinements to commercial considerations (for instance, the 1950s trend to rework multiple science fiction short stories published in genre magazines into “fix-ups” so as to capitalize on an expanding book market).
This seminar will address a selection of American short stories from the second half of the 20th century and their subsequent adaptation, expansion, or incorporation into novel or novel-like formats. Analyzing the individual texts and the changes they undergo from one version to the next will enable us to consider issues of form, genre, narrative, and intertextuality.
Since we will primarily focus on close reading, participants are encouraged to procure physical copies of (at least some of) the longer texts: The Martian Chronicles (Ray Bradbury, 1950); Go Tell It on the Mountain (James Baldwin, 1953); Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes, 1966); Tracks (Louise Erdrich, 1988); Four/Five Ways to Forgiveness (Ursula K. Le Guin, 1995/2017). All texts will also be provided as digital scans.
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14 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Tue, 2024-04-16 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2024-04-23 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2024-04-30 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2024-05-07 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2024-05-14 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2024-05-21 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2024-05-28 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2024-06-04 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2024-06-11 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2024-06-18 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2024-06-25 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2024-07-02 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2024-07-09 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2024-07-16 14:00 - 16:00