CLL 176 - (LT) The Short Story in World Literature: Origins, Examples, InfluencesSemester Hours: 3
Periodically
This course will introduce students to World Literature through short stories from different countries and cultures, languages and traditions, in a comparative context, with emphasis primarily on the emergence of the short story as a major genre in Western traditions in Europe and the U.S. in the 19th and 20th centuries, and its relations to other traditions in World Literature (as demonstrated through cross-cultural comparisons between Western and non-Western literatures).
The general purpose of the course is to reveal the uniqueness of different cultures and the separate validity of each within its respective cultural and literary traditions through the genre of the short story and what it can isolate and highlight pointedly without the breadth of description that would characterize a novel. The course will demonstrate how the comparative examination of literary texts as cultural documents allows for the reciprocal illumination of cultural differences and literary achievement.
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