ENGL 3081: Topics in Author, Pop Culture, and Genre Studies: Modernist Short Story

University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Selected�topics in author, pop culture, and genre studies. Section information text: The contemporary short story owes a great debt to the modernist short story. This class introduces you to short stories written during the first half of the twentieth century, a time of radical shifts in both form and content, as writers rebelled strongly against the social and textual conventions of the nineteenth century. Modernist writers took on taboo subject matter while employing new, experimental techniques that we still use today, such as stream of consciousness, nonlinear narratives, unreliable narrators, fragmentation, and asynchronous expressions of time. With attention to theme and craft, we'll read the fiction of classic and overlooked American and European writers of different backgrounds.