LIT 2024 - FALL 2026 - HAMMONS

This course introduces students to the foundational literary genre of the short story. Students will learn about the history and variety of the short story as a form, including selections from the Western canon. The course will teach students to understand, analyze, and think critically about the formal aspects of the short story (including point of view, narration, tone, characterization, and theme) that are essential to all literary study. Major short story writers such as Anton Chekhov, Franz Kafka, Ernest Hemingway, and Jorge Luis Borges will be discussed. Student will engage with critical work as well as write and revise their own critical papers.