ENG 3344 - House of Fiction: American Stories

Credits: 4
The house of fiction has … not one window, but a million.” - Henry James. This course will focus on exploring the best of the American short story. We will begin by delving into the work of Hawthorne, Poe, Twain, Jewett, Freeman, and Chopin and considering how each is open to a variety of theoretical approaches. The second half of the semester will be a student-run seminar surveying of the best stories of the 20th and 21st century by authors such as Cather, Faulkner, Porter, Hurston, O’Connor, Carver, McPherson, Tan, Mukherjee, Russell.
McDaniel Plan: Textual Analysis