Spring 2012: Kopper (10A)
The Violence of the Story:Masterpieces of Short Fiction in Russia and the West (Identical to Russian 38)
Through its brevity the short story challenges readers to invent, imagine, and interpolate information to a degree not demanded by the novel. This course explores the inherent violence that the story form does to reading expectations, notions of character interaction, and conventional ideas about what constitutes a plot. It also examines ways in which the short story tests our ability to contextualize and defeats our wish for closure. (LIT/W)
