Tom Whalen          
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Wintersemester 2008/09
Universität Stuttgart, Amerikanistik II 
Fridays 9.45 - 11.15
H7, Room 7.104

 


   WRITING AND READING SHORT STORIES 


October 17
"Araby" - James Joyce
The Elements of the Scene

October 24
"Reunion" - John Cheever
"Metamorphoses Pt. I" - Cheever
Character and Plot

October 31
"The Deacon" - John Updike
"Weatherman: A Theological Narrative" - William Harrison
Character

November 7
"Carnation" - Katherine Mansfield
"Sunday Afternoon" - Elizabeth Bowen
Tone

November 14
"The Conversion of the Jews" - Philip Roth
"A Sorrowful Woman" - Gail Godwin
The Dramatic Moment

November 21
"A Wreath for Garibaldi" - George Garrett
"A Sad Garden" - Elizabeth Taylor
Conflict

December 5
"Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby" - Donald Barthelme
"The President" - Barthelme
"The Glass Mountain" - Barthelme
Foregrounding Form

December 12
"Ping" - Samuel Beckett
"Fizzle 3: Afar a bird" - Beckett
"Fizzle 4" - Beckett
Language and Consciousness

December 19
"A Christmas Memory" - Truman Capote
Fiction and Memory

January 9
"Fox and Rabbit in the Well" - J.D. Suggs
"Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman" - Joel Chandler Harris
Story / Plot / Texture

January 16
The Literary Journals / Workshop

January 23
The Literary Journals / Workshop

January 30
Submitting stories for publication / Workshop

February 6
Workshop

February 13
Workshop

Course requirements: regular attendance (no more than three absences allowed).
Grades will be based on short reading quizzes, presentations, and class participation.