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Dec 26, 2024
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CLL 176 - (LT) The Nineteenth-Century Short Story: Chekhov and His PredecessorsSemester Hours: 3
Periodically
A survey of European and American short-story writing over the roughly
one-hundred year period from the late eighteenth century to the
appearance of Chekhov’s mature works. Chekhov’s stories represent a
culmination of certain Western European as well as Russian traditions
of the diminutive prose form. The evolution of the Russian short story
will be traced from its formal beginnings (inspired by French
Sentimentalism) through the works of the major nineteenth century prose
writers such as Pushkin and Gogol. Turgenev emerges as a pivotal
figure, having patent affinities with Western writers and providing a
structural model for Chekhov’s stories. The texts from this tradition
will be read together with stories by E.T.A. Hoffman, Kleist,
Maupassant, Melville, Hawthorne, and Edgar Allan Poe.
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